There has been no material change to the economic cut-off methodology or process. The application of the updated pricing assumptions has removed lower quality material from the Ore Reserve estimate. There has been no material change to the other reserve modifying factors, including: governmental, tenure, environmental, cultural heritage, social, community or operational. Meanwhile, RTA Pacific Operations Mineral Resources exclusive of Ore Reserves estimates have increased. Mineral Resources exclusive of Ore Reserves has increased by 128 Mt, from 1,949 Mt to 2,077 Mt, the statement to the ASX said. This includes 1,330 Mt of Inferred Resource at North of Weipa, which remains unchanged from 2019. The increase was mainly due to changes in the forecast pricing assumptions used in the reserving process.
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UPDATE: Gladstone is one step closer to being the home of one of the world s largest high purity alumina refineries after the $300 million plant received Queensland Government planning approval. On Thursday at the 9.2 hectare site in Yarwun, 10km out of Gladstone, Gladstone MP Glenn Butcher announced Alpha HPA had received the approval from the coordinator general. What this will mean for the Gladstone region is 300 construction jobs when it starts and 120 full time employees in the operational phase, Mr Butcher said. Alpha HPA chief operations officer Rob Williamson and member for Gladstone Glenn Butcher at the site of a planned high purity alumina refinery on February 11, 2021.
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Subscriber only Gladstone s biggest employer, Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL), and McCosker Contracting are being sued for $1.65 million after a worker s dozer tipped in the Red Mud Dam and he was washed up in the industrial waste. Jason Kerfoot filed a workplace injury lawsuit against the companies in January at the Rockhampton Supreme Court. The Statement of Claim details Mr Kerfoot was employed by McCosker Contracting as a machinery operator and he was conducting work at QAL s Red Mud Dam. The document cites an incident occurred on December 3, 2018, when Mr Kerfoot was operating a dozer. It states Mr Kerfoot was moving soil to raise the height of the back wall of the Red Mud Dam, which had slurry and manufacturing by-product behind it.
Queensland and its central region have an abundance of natural beauty â but in the eyes of some, there are landmarks that scar the horizon.
The Observer took to social media to discover what the readers thought were the regionâs biggest blights on the landscape - its biggest eyesores.
Interestingly, many of the nominated industrial âeyesoresâ have helped shape Gladstone into the city it is today, plus contributed hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, to the local, state and national economies during their existence.
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For 53 years Queensland Alumina Limited has been a prominent feature of the Gladstone landscape.