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Grade up, tonnes down at Image's Boonanarring

PERTH Basin mineral sands miner Image Minerals will end 2019 on a high with another upgrade: a reserves boost that includes a 50% higher zircon grade for its flagship Boonanarring project, Western Australia, although overall tonnages are down 33%.

Boonanarring has been a success.

Boonanarring has been a success.

A review of the project, 80km north of Perth, delivered a 24% increase in the total heavy minerals ore grade to 8.9%, the zircon content is now 27.5% and the in-situ zircon grade is has risen from 1.6%...

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