EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT

Iron Road savages development costs

THE last mining boom may have left the central Australian outback dotted with the corpses of failed iron ore mining ventures, but survivor Iron Road reckons it is still in with a chance, defining a new strategy it hopes can revitalise its dreams for a smaller Central Eyre iron project in South Australia.

Cape Hardy, site of the proposed port.

Cape Hardy, site of the proposed port.

Having sharpened its pencil and blunted its sliderule, Iron Road says it has been able to more than halve the capital expenditure requirements for the CEIP, while maintaining its low operating costs with...

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