Milestone month for Round Oak copper operations
Round Oak Minerals has reached a milestone in its Barbara copper operation, with the first 50,000-tonne batch of ore being processed in Mount Isa this week.
Its
Mount Colin underground operation is also in full swing as workers begin to
move into a newly commissioned on-site accommodation camp.
Round
Oak Minerals chief executive officer Rob Cooper said mining was going well at
Barbara, about 60km north-east of Mount Isa.
Glencore
has been hauling Barbara ore to its operations in Mount Isa since October for
toll treatment to produce copper concentrate.
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Breaking ground at Barbara
Mining activity has kicked off at Round Oak Minerals’ Barbara copper-gold project, about 60km north-east of Mount Isa.
Chief
executive officer Rob Cooper said the site establishment work had been
carried out and contractors started waste stripping to in the pit in the last
week of March.
SES Mining Solutions is providing the mining production workforce, with equipment supplied from Salmon Earthmoving.
“We
have started mining about a month later than planned, due to the extreme
weather event in January/February, which prevented access to site,” Mr Cooper
said.
“The
contractors have mobilised now and we. . .
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