EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT

Smaller Thunderbird envisaged

POTENTIAL mineral sands developer Sheffield Resources has appointed Hatch to carry out a feasibility study and has cut the planned size of its initial Thunderbird operation by nearly 40% as it seeks to lower capital costs.

Michael Quinn
Smaller Thunderbird envisaged

Sheffield is now contemplating an initial 7.5 million tonne per annum initial development at the project near Derby in Western Australia, down from the 12Mtpa project costing $A271 million contemplated...

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