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Nickel West Operations
Nickel mining in Western Australia has been an industry that has had many fluctuations of fortune in its history. Large fluctuations in the world nickel price have seen mines close and reopen on several occasions. In 2004/05, the value of nickel production ($2.7 billion) exceeded that of gold ($2.2 billion). In the 2011 calendar year, nickel contributed $3.9 billion or four per cent to the value of the State's resources. Nickel production in the same year was 188,000 tonnes. Australia (predominantly Western Australia) holds one-third of the world's known reserves of nickel-producing laterites and sulfide deposits. As of 2011, Australia was the world's fifth largest nickel producer. The only other significant Australian nickel production outside Western Australia is a refinery at Yabulu, Queensland which processes ore from New Caledonia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Early mines Nickel mines were developed in the late 1960s in Kambalda, Laverton and the Kimberley region of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive but large pieces are slow to react with air under standard conditions because a passivation layer of nickel oxide forms on the surface that prevents further corrosion. Even so, pure native nickel is found in Earth's crust only in tiny amounts, usually in ultramafic rocks, and in the interiors of larger nickel–iron meteorites that were not exposed to oxygen when outside Earth's atmosphere. Meteoric nickel is found in combination with iron, a reflection of the origin of those elements as major end products of supernova nucleosynthesis. An iron–nickel mixture is thought to compose Earth's outer and inner cores. Use of nickel (as natural meteoric nickel–iron alloy) has been traced as far back as 3500 BCE. Nickel was first isolated and classified as an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Keith Mine
Mount Keith Mine is an open pit nickel mine in Western Australia. It is operated by BHP. The site's closest landmark is the town of Wiluna, to the north. Overview The mine is located on the north end of the long Norseman- Wiluna Greenstone belt, with nickel sulfide deposits of the dyke-like or sill deposit type. The important known nickel deposits are in the ultramafic rocks of the lower cycle, around 2700 Ma old. In 1971, the mine was thought to be able to provide 10% of the world's demand for nickel; in 1992 it was estimated as containing 270 million tons of sulfide ore, grading 0.6% nickel, enough for about twenty years. Previously owned by WMC Resources Limited, which commissioned the mine in 1995, it was acquired by BHP in June 2005. In 2009, BHP reduced the mine's activity, laying off 300 employees. Production Mount Keith is part of BHP's Nickel West operations, which includes, apart from Mount Keith, the Leinster Nickel Mine, the Kambalda Nickel Concentrator, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Quantum Minerals
First Quantum Minerals is a Canadian-based mining and metals company whose principal activities include mineral exploration, development and mining. Its main product is copper, which accounts for 80% of revenues as of 2016. First Quantum's common shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada (symbol "FM"). Until 2016, First Quantum also maintained a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (symbol "FQM"), in the United Kingdom. History First Quantum was founded in 1983 under the name Xenium Resources. It changed its name to ''Zeal Capital'' in 1989, ''First Quantum Ventures'' in 1993, and First Quantum Minerals in 1996. Its first significant operation was the Bwana Mkubwa mine in Zambia, acquired in 1996. In 2000, First Quantum acquired a partial interest in Mopani Copper Mines, a Zambian copper company. In 2001, it opened the Lonshi Copper Mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also in 2001, the company acquired the Kansanshi mine in Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murrin Murrin Joint Venture
The Murrin Murrin Mine is a major nickel-cobalt mining operation being conducted in the North Eastern Goldfields, approximately 45 km east of Leonora, Western Australia. The project was initiated as a joint venture between Murrin Murrin Holdings Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anaconda Nickel Limited (whose share was 60%) and Glenmurrin Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Glencore International AG, which had a 40% share. In 2003 Anaconda changed its name to Minara Resources Limited. In November 2011, Minara Resources was fully acquired and is now wholly owned by Glencore International. The mine opened in 1999.''The Australian Mines Handbook: 2003–2004 Edition'', page: 39 Geology Murrin Murrin mines a laterite nickel ore formed by deep weathering of a peridotite ultramafic rock. Problems with the process plant Significant problems and delays were encountered in the design, construction and commissioning of the ore process plant at Murrin Murrin. The designer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glencore
Glencore plc is a Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. Glencore's oil and gas head office is in London and its registered office is in Saint Helier, Jersey. The current company was created through a merger of Glencore with Xstrata on 2 May 2013. , it ranked tenth in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Glencore International was ranked as the 484th-largest public company in the world. As of July 2022, it is the world's largest commodity trader. As Glencore International, the company was already one of the world's largest integrated producers and marketers of commodities. It was the largest company in Switzerland as well as the world's largest commodities trading company, with a 2010 global market share of 60% in internationally tradable zinc, 50% in internationally tradable copper, 9% in the internationally tradable grain market and 3% in the internationally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minara Resources
Minara Resources Pty Ltd is one of the major mining companies of Australia, specializing in the mining of cobalt and nickel. It is one of the top ten nickel mines in Australia. It is wholly owned by the Swiss commodities trading firm, Glencore plc as of November 2011. Based in Perth, Minara Resources was founded in 1994 as the successor to Anaconda Nickel Ltd. which was founded by Fortescue Metals Group chief Andrew Forrest. In 2006, it had a capitalization of approximately $1.3 bn. At the time of takeover, it was valued at a total of $1.02 billion (Australian). Minara applied on October 14, 2011, to have its stock (MRE) suspended from trading on the Australian Stock Exchange. Key personnel Prior to its full takeover by Glencore, its board of directors as of February 2010 were: * Peter Coates – chairman * Peter Johnston – CEO and managing director * John Morrison – non-executive director * Ivan Glasenberg – non-executive director * Willy Strothotte Willy or Willie i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Ann And Maggie Hays Nickel Mines
The Emily Ann and Maggie Hays nickel deposits are situated 117 km west of the town of Norseman, Western Australia, within the Lake Johnston Greenstone Belt.Hill R.E.T, Barnes S.J., Gole M.J., and Dowling S.E., 1990. ''Physical volcanology of komatiites; A field guide to the komatiites of the Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia.'', Geological Society of Australia The mines had been operational since 2001''The Australian Mines Handbook: 2003–2004 Edition'', page: 28 when Nornickel suspended mining at Emily Ann and Maggie Hays in early 2009 because of drastically falling nickel prices.Norilsk Nickel Australia Nornickel, accessed: 10 September 2009 Poseidon Nicke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MMC Norilsk Nickel
Norilsk Nickel (russian: ГМК «Норильский никель»), or Nornickel, is a Russian nickel and palladium mining and smelting company. Its largest operations are located in the Norilsk–Talnakh area near the Yenisei River in the north of Siberia. It also has holdings in Nikel, Zapolyarny, and Monchegorsk on the Kola Peninsula, in Harjavalta in western Finland, and in South Africa. Headquartered in Moscow, Norilsk Nickel is the world's largest producer of refined nickel and the 11th largest copper producer. The company is listed on MICEX-RTS. As of March 2021, its key shareholders were Vladimir Potanin's Olderfrey Holdings Ltd (34.59%) and Oleg Deripaska's Rusal (27.82%). In December 2010, Norilsk Nickel made a share buyback offer for Rusal's 25% share in the company for $12 billion, but the offer was declined. In 2012, Potanin's Interros holding, Rusal, and Roman Abramovich signed a shareholder agreement on the size of dividend payouts to end a conflict over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrestania
Forrestania Airport is located at Forrestania, Western Australia. See also * List of airports in Western Australia This is a list of airports in the Australian state of Western Australia. __TOC__ List of airports The list is sorted by the name of the community served, click the sort buttons in the table header to switch listing order. Airports named in bo ... * Aviation transport in Australia References External links Airservices Aerodromes & Procedure Charts Airports in Western Australia {{WesternAustralia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic viability of investing in the equipment, labor, and energy required to extract, refine and transport the materials found at the mine to manufacturers who can use the material. Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory. Mining in a wider sense includes extraction of any non-renewable resource such as petroleum, natural gas, or even water. Modern mining processes involve prospecting for ore bodies, analysis of the profit potential of a proposed mine, extraction of the desired materials, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
