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MITEZ election priorities – investment, growth and jobs

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Regional development organisation Mount Isa to Townsville Economic Zone (MITEZ) has released 12 regional election priorities with the aim to strengthen and grow the economic corridor between Mount Isa and Townsville.

All MITEZ members had all been consulted to provide input to the final list of priorities which were discussed at the recent general meeting, MITEZ president David Glasson said.

MITEZ chief executive officer Glen Graham, president David Glasson and regional development officer Ross Thinee

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CopperString power project moves to EIS phase

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Energy.

The proposed $1.5 billion CopperString project continues to push ahead, with the release of final terms of reference for the project’s environmental impact statement (EIS).

It comes after the The State Government last week pledged $1.18 million for the CopperString 2.0 power project as part of a North West Queensland Economic Diversification Strategy

The project proponent CuString is currently negotiating agreements with foundation customers and financing from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF).

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Dugald River set to step up another level

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Exploration, Processing / Manufacturing.

The Dugald River team is looking to bump up production further in 2019 after taking the North-West Queensland operation’s processing plant right out to design capacity in the past year.

General
manager Sam Rodda said the MMG site would aim for an ore throughput as high as
2Mtpa and was still ramping up its underground mining operations with contract
partner Barminco.

“It’s exciting
for us. We still don’t totally understand what the ultimate capacity is for
mining this site,” he said.

“Part of our challenge
and opportunity is to find our right sustainable production rate.”

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