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Tasmanian tailings

Ailbhe Goodbody spoke to Roger Jackson, executive director of NQ Minerals, about the Hellyer gold project in Tasmania, Australia. The company is looking to bring the mine back into production in 2018 and plans to use a sequential flotation process to extract 11.4Mt of tailings over 10 years

Ailbhe Goodbody
The tailings dam at Hellyer is substantial, with 10Mt of the resource in it

The tailings dam at Hellyer is substantial, with 10Mt of the resource in it

NQ Minerals acquired the Hellyer gold project in 2017 - why did this particular asset appeal to the company? It is a near-term cash producer, so it didn't require any major amounts of capital, and it...

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