Nickel miner Western Areas NL says it is on track to start up two new mines near its Flying Fox mine in Western Australia next year.

Managing director Julian Hanna told the company’s annual general meeting in Perth on Friday that these developments, the Spotted Quoll and Diggers South mines, between Kalgoorlie and Esperance, would be [...]

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Oxiana has delivered a record quarterly output of copper and flagged a continuing rise in the price of the red metal, while warning of a delay to first production from its Prominent Hill project.
Copper production from the company’s flagship Sepon mine in Laos rose 24 percent to a record 17,132 tonnes during the first quarter.
Oxiana, [...]

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