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Mineral sands, nickel hunt underway

ADELAIDE Resources and mineral sands major Iluka Resources have started drilling the Colona joint venture minerals sands project in the Eucla basin of South Australia, a region where the junior is also exploring for nickel with Canadian nickel player Inco.

Andrea Hayward
Mineral sands, nickel hunt underway

At least 2500 metres will be drilled (to typical depths of 30-40m) in the general vicinity of a hole which returned an intersection of 27% heavy minerals over a 2m interval – with mineral assemblage including...

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