In an attempt to expand its profitable manganese mine, South32 Ltd has come to terms in principal with traditional indigenous land owners at Groote Eylandt. Expansion plans for the site located in the Gulf of Carpentaria has not yet received required government approval, but the plan is believed to be able to expand the scale and extend …
اقرأ المزيدHowever, it has had to temporarily suspend the Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO) operations due to damage caused by the tropical cyclone. Located on the island of Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria, GEMCO is an open-cut, strip-mining operation that is one of the largest high-grade manganese ore producers in the …
اقرأ المزيدThe ALC collects mining royalties from the Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO) which has been extracting high-grade manganese ore on Groote Eylandt since 1964. GEBIE was separated from the ALC in 2013 to become an independent corporation with both boards having separate directors. GEBIE is the largest of 16 Indigenous …
اقرأ المزيدManganese ore prices are poised to increase further as the market continues to digest the yearlong closure of the world's second-largest manganese mine and as China's stocks of high-grade Australian ore start to decline. The global manganese market lost 12% of supply when a tropical cyclone halted production at Australia's …
اقرأ المزيدThe manganese ore deposits at Groote Eylandt are quite variable both in regard to grade and physical cond- ition. In order to treat a wider range of these ores and to increase production a new primary-crusher and' concentrator complex costing $8 million has been installed and commissioned to treat ore at the rate of 12,000 tonnes per day. The initial …
اقرأ المزيدThe agreement with the Groote Eylandt Traditional Owners and the Anindilyakwa Land Council allows the company to mine the eastern leases of its 60%-owned Groote Eylandt manganese project in Australia's Northern Territory and undertake exploration in the southern areas of the island.
اقرأ المزيدGroote Eylandt is a large island of 2260 square kilometres in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 48 kilometres from the east Arnhem Land coast. Close to Angurugu on the west of the island are a manganese mine, treatment plant and shipping operation controlled by Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Ltd (GEMCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Broken Hill …
اقرأ المزيدBHP claims that its Australian manganese business is the largest seaborne producer of manganese ore in the world, with Gemco exporting over 80 million tonnes of manganese ore in the past 50 years. The completion of the second stage of the Groote Eylandt expansion project coincides with BHP's celebration of 50 years of mining from …
اقرأ المزيدMining services company Sedgman has secured a $133m engineering procurement construction (EPC) contract for Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO)'s manganese mine expansion project. According to Sedgman, the latest project re-processes manganese ore stored in tailings stockpiles and is expected to increase the facility's …
اقرأ المزيدThese days, tourism is still in its infancy and it's multi-billion-dollar business GEMCO (Groote Eylandt Mining Company) — in operation since the 1960s — that keeps the island humming. Groote produces more than 3.8 million tonnes of manganese ore a year. That's around a quarter of the world's requirements.
اقرأ المزيدAlyangula is the main town with a population of 870 and most residents are non-Aboriginal miners, with manganese being mined since 1966. Groote Eylandt is a fantastic spot for fishing, while facilities for visitors are limited, safaris can be organised for anglers and accommodation is available at the Groote Eylandt Lodge.
اقرأ المزيدOREAS 171 is a supergene manganese ore matrix-matched certified reference material (MMCRM) prepared and certified by Ore Research & Exploration Pty Ltd. The material was sourced from the Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Ltd (GEMCO) Mn deposit which is hosted within a shallow dipping Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rock unit.
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