An updated scoping study has shown that the project will generate strong financial returns.
Articles can be saved for quick future reference. This is a subscriber benefit. If you are already a subscriber, please log in to save this article. If you are not a subscriber, click on the View Subscription Options button to subscribe. The mine plan shows that Pioneer Dome will attain steady-state average production of 200 000 t/y of spodumene concentrate over a seven-year life-of-mine , with an LoM payable of 1.13-million tonnes of spodumene.
The proposed underground mines have been optimised, designed and scheduled to enable mining using standard high-capacity mobile underground mining equipment. Each orebody is accessed through a decline developed from the openpit excavations. The ventilation and escapeway accesses are also mined from existing openpit voids to reduce development metres planned in oxidised material. The mining method, which forms the basis of the work, is longhole open stoping.
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