Sentences with phrase «higher ore grades»

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Since all of the near surface high - grade deposits have been discovered, companies are now looking at more geologically challenging deposits, usually with lower - grade ore.

The company is looking to establish the continuity, dimensions and tenor of the high - grade titanium - vanadium Barrambie ore body with its close spaced grade control drill program.

Fortescue Metals Group has announced major changes to its leadership, with a new chief executive taking the reins and its directors taking a hands - on role to support an updated strategy that focuses on producing more higher - grade iron ore.

The lithium orebody at Greenbushes is unique in that it contains large zones of high grade lithium ore.

Simandou is the world's largest untapped high - grade iron - ore resource and is expected to sustain a mine life in excess of 40 years.

The project has the challenge of high country and weather as well as a relatively erratic ore body in the sense that the gold is high grade and located in relatively narrow veins.

Not evident in such calculations is the extent to which the practice of high grading (mining of the highest - grade ore) has further gutted the sustainability of industry production at current levels.

Antofagasta CEO Ivan Arriagada said in a statement the company had expected to begin the year with poorer grades, but would move to higher quality ores and improve output as the year went on.

Analysts speculated that Fortescue's weak export rate in October and November may be linked to the Chinese shutdowns and the middle kingdom's growing preference for iron ore with higher grades than Fortescue typically produces.

Prestea is very high grade (14g / t or so) and the mill only operates at 600 tpd, so it doesn't take a lot of new ore to add significantly to the mine.

The latest monthly production is similar to the February, 2017, production of 6,733 ounces, an amount that was attributable to the abnormally high - grade ore processed.

The reason for Australia's third - ranking iron ore miner traditionally being seen more as prey than predator is a function of its once sky - high debt levels, uncertainty about its ore grade, and a belief that at some point Forrest would be tempted to cash out of the company he created.

Deep sea vents have become attractive sites for mining, because they often contain high - grade metal ores.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

The higher uranium price reflects the need to move to ever deeper mines, which increases the energy needed to extract the ore, and the shift to lower - grade ore.

The amount of uranium ore of high enough grade for use in thermal uranium based reactors is not so plentiful that it would last very long in worldwide use.

There may come a day when we will have mined most all of the high - grade ore out of gaming, and at that time we will investigate adjacent leisure and hospitality sectors.