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Roper Bar shows promise: Western Desert

WESTERN Desert has revealed a 90 million tonne inaugural mineral resource estimate for Area D of the Roper Bar iron ore project in the Northern Territory.

Claire Svircas
Roper Bar shows promise: Western Desert

The estimate of 90Mt at 37.2% iron ore consists of four zones of oolitic haematitic ironstone. The company said the resource was flat-lying, close to the surface and open to the north. "This is a...

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