
Metro Mining has commenced mining operations at the Bauxite Hills Mine. Metro Mining Managing Director & CEO Simon Finnis said the Bauxite Hills Mine would feed the ever-growing seaborne bauxite market.
Metro’s first shipment has been purchased by China’s Xinfa Group, one of the largest integrated aluminium companies in China. The first vessel of around 60,000 tonnes of bauxite to Shandong Province has been scheduled to arrive on 19 April.
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Metro Mining Managing Director & CEO Simon Finnis said “The Bauxite Hills Mine will become the largest independent mine within the internationally acclaimed Weipa Bauxite Region.”
“Commencement of mining operations is a credit to the entire Metro team. Site Management and the mining, marine and construction personnel have delivered the project in a very short time-frame and are to be congratulated.”
“It was an extraordinary achievement to complete most of construction of a world class mine in just five months,” Mr Finnis said.
Metro Mining’s Bauxite Hills Mine is approximately 95 kilometres north of Weipa on Western Cape York. The Bauxite Hills Mine is based on 92.2Mt reserves giving the mine a 17-year mine life. Bauxite Hills Mine project will produce an initial rate of 2 million tonnes per annum of bauxite, ramping up to six-million tonnes a year over the first four years.
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