The Forrestania Nickel Project, located 400km east of Perth, Western Australia, this site contains some of the highest grade nickel in the world. The project includes Archean Greenstone belts and substantial exploration potential. Western Areas plans to develop five mines at the project site by 2011, with targeted production of 35,000t per annum of nickel.For heavy equipment for sale for this project, go to MSloane Consulting
Two additional planned underground mines - Cosmic Boy and Diggers South - are wholly owned by Forrestania Nickel Project. The company expects to upgrade the nickel concentrator in two stages to achieve a target of 750,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) ore. The first stage is fully commissioned with an ore capacity of 300,000tpa. The second stage is scheduled for March 2010 to treat ore from the Spotted Quoll mine. The major infrastructure such as grid power, roads, water, tailings disposal and airstrip is set for completion during the second stage.
Western Areas’ objective is to increase the capacity of high-quality mineral resources at Forrestania to 40,000t nickel in 2009. The Flying Fox mine initiated production in 2008 and produced 200,597t at 4.05%, containing 8,118t of nickel in concentrate.
