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Resource profile points to early mining returns

The giant North West Minerals Province is heavily pregnant with massive deposits and is set to deliver its next big find.

So says Maronan Metals managing director Richard Charlton. 

Maronan Metals managing director Richard Charlton at the Noosa Mining Conference

The project is located roughly between the Cannington and Ernest Henry Mines about 64kms south of Cloncurry.

The location in North. . .

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EGRU presents critical minerals seminar

Critical minerals will be the focus of a technical workshop hosted by JCU's Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU) on October 9.

The workshop - via Zoom from 3pm - will feature presentations by world experts on critical minerals geology from Australia, Germany and United Kingdom.

Critical minerals - required for new technologies including energy storage - generally do not occur as separate deposits, but as by-products of other commodities.  

In many cases the geological processes leading to the enrichment of these minerals. . .

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Glencore's Mount Isa Mines

An origin battle that has been waged over decades

A cold war of ideas centred on the possible origins of one of the world’s richest base metals deposits is entering into its fourth decade with fresh troops carrying the standard into battle.

The point of contention is simple enough. How did the Mount Isa deposit form? At issue are the assumptions drawn to mine its riches and discover the next deposit. 

There was abundant evidence to challenge decades-old truisms said University of  Adelaide Embedded Research Fellow Dr Richard Lilly.

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