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Financially strained mineral sands miner MZI Resources has put its prime Keysbrook Mineral Sands Project, 70km S of Perth, Western Australia, on the market.
The company says a new owner of the project, that went into production in 2015 and is the world’s biggest high value leucoxene producer, “may be better placed to build on existing operations within a more conducive capital structure and place greater strategic value...

BHP Iron Ore has challenged a West Australian state government claim that it has underpaid between $A200M and $300M in royalties due on its Pilbara operations.
State treasurer Ben Wyatt says a routine WA Mines Department audit highlighted a “difference of opinion” about the world No 3 iron ore miner’s cost deductions from royalty payments relating to its Singapore marketing hub from the early 2000s until 2016.
BHP rejected the government claim,...

West Australian engineer GR has been awarded a $A50M EPC contract by unlisted public company Tellus Holdings for its proposed innovative mining-plus-waste storage development of the Sandy Ridge project, 75km NE pf Koolyanobbing in the Coolgardie shire.
The guaranteed maximum price contract covers establishing a 23m deep openpit to yield up to 40,000tpa kaolin and adapting the mined voids for long-term separation and storage of hazardous...

Prominent Southern African leaders are supporting Felix Tshisekedi as winner of DR Congo’s presidential election after the Constitutional Court declared him the victor by a simple majority and refused calls for a recount.
The constitutional court said a challenge by runner-up Martin Fayulu to provisional results showing Tshisekedi with 38.57% to his 34.8% was “unfounded”.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta congratulated Tshisekedi....