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Mardie costs explode

WESTERN Australia’s struggling potash industry took another body blow today with BCI Minerals revealing costs for its ambitious Mardie salt and potash development have almost doubled and its timelines have been pushed out by one year.

 Mardie is a huge engineering challenege

Mardie is a huge engineering challenege

Higher costs were expected, as earlier this year managing director David Boshoff warned of a major cost escalation.   Construction of Mardie, located in Western Australia's Pilbara, was always envisaged...

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