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River of dreams

THE Xstrata-led Frieda River project in Papua New Guinea now has even more scope after total resources in its wider copper-gold district were lifted by 14.5% to 2.76 billion tonnes –reaching at least 12.9 million tonnes of contained copper and 20 million ounces of gold.

Blair Price
River of dreams

The boost comes after consultancy Hellman & Schofield completed a new resource estimate for the Ekwai deposit and an updated estimate for the Koki deposit. Both deposits were considered very similar...

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