Voyage of discovery
16th Mar 2012
WELLINGTON, Mar 16 – It’s a Pacific cruise with a difference for the good ship Dorado Discovery. The hi-tech research vessel has sailed for the Chatham Rise, 450km east of the New Zealand capital Wellington, where it will spend about a month going back and forth collecting environmental and geotechnical data.
Instead of overweight pensioners or oversexed Gen-Xers, it’s carrying scientists and technicians from government research agencies, Royal Boskalis Westminster, Golder Associates and Kenex.
Chatham Rock Phosphate says the voyage will uncover significant data for an environmental impact report so it can apply for a mining licence this year over rock phosphate deposits lying at shallow depths on the Chatham Rise.
The 4276sq.km exploration licence area is estimated to contain enough rock phosphate to meet NZ market needs for 15 years.
Also in the March 14 - 20, 2012 edition
- AFRICA
- Kasbah’s door opens a little wider
- Minbos boss confident about first production
- Time for a little show and sell
- ASIA DESK
- Ten minutes of fame
- AustMETS
- Mining a portal to ‘smarter’ future
- Mining’s backroom hall of fame – Part I
- COAL
- Orpheus sees positive in Indonesia rule change
- EDUCATION
- Kinross backs mining H&S professorship
- UNSW establishes ‘Rio’ mining chair
- EUROPE
- Europe told to ‘get in the game’
- Industry not short of advice for EU politicians
- Leave it to the little guys
- Let’s not be critical
- Metals shortage, what metals shortage?
- Power to the people
- Socialism so 2007
- EXPLORATION
- Digging a little deeper on Mumbwa
- FINANCE
- Indonesian rules leave expats guessing
- Meadows sees much fertile ground for IMX
- Santa Rita still has time
- FROM THE CAPITAL
- Resource sector equities could resist China slowdown
- HEAVY METAL
- Shenhua expands Sandvik miner fleet
- INTERCEPTS
- AIM to facilitate gold production
- Alacer joins mid-tier ranks
- Alliance set to win Argyle flights
- Altona cash flowing
- Balamara turns focus to central Europe
- Banpu outlines regional capex plan
- Bassari nears Makabingui extension
- Beadell to add iron to diet
- Bell signals strong 2012
- Big Ncondezi resource lift
- Black Fire sets tungsten scoping target
- Blackwood looks at stage-two drilling at Taroom
- Boulsa gold target set
- Bulletin posts Nicolson's increase
- Bushveld set for AIM
- California sets start date for Sonora drilling
- Cancana works on spin-out plans
- Capital raises Mayfield stocks
- Carbine reloads
- CMC acquisition hands West African more ground
- Cockatoo sells Woori stake
- Crater Mountain vista expands
- Cullen gets some West Pilbara funding
- CWA to have long look at Vista
- Daw Mill future in doubt
- Deal creates new Realm
- Doing business in Indonesia: a lesson from the front line
- Dutwa tests to begin next quarter
- Eelya copper hunt to start
- Employees offered share of Harmony
- Exxaro's target readies for ASX exit
- Ferrum promises more Moonlight
- FMG asks for more, please
- Forge signs Balla Balla funds deal
- Gascoyne to speed Glenburgh study
- Gem sees Letseng lift
- Glass Earth to lift Dunstan output
- Great Western raises rare earth funds
- Greenland lifts Kvanefjeld inventory
- Hannans wins support for bid
- Haranga out with maiden JORC
- Hastings gets helping hand
- Hothschild rides silver price
- Hutton new Mithril MD
- IMX aims high at Mt Woods
- Intermin targets Teal gold
- Ivanhoe looks to secure $US4B facility
- Jambreiro on track
- Junefield grabs Latin stake
- Kaboko says offtake deal in place
- Kalahari clean-out
- Kalgoorlie North to absorb big drill program
- Kangaluwi copper looms larger
- Kasbah lifts tin resource
- Kirkalocka rebirth continues
- Labrador secures upgrade funding
- Latin likes Guadalupito shape
- Leighton fined over disclosure
- Leopard spots funding opportunity
- Liberia gold project DFS expected soon
- Magnum resource can grow: Antipa
- Manas expects to complete study this month
- Marengo set for Yandera raising
- Markets sink Korab spin-offs
- Medusa slashes production forecast
- Minemakers dismisses speculation
- Mithril posts low-grade Basil resource
- Moody's lifts AGA debt rating
- Moody's upgrades AGA debt
- Morning Star funding boost
- New Age seeks Colombia coal funds
- New Hope profit rises
- Nex target is Butterfly
- Norilsk to upgrade NIA power
- Ntaka nickel project edges forward
- Orsu books Karchiga start
- Overland to focus on Yukon
- Panton's borderline returns
- Peak Hill partners find more ore
- Peru illegal mining protests turn ugly
- Peru protestors pull back
- PFS shows Cyclone high-level
- PMI completes fund raising
- Potash contract price pegged at $US470/t
- Proto assesses borderline project
- Qube wins DeGrussa contract
- R384M for new block cave
- Ramelius opens second gold front
- Randgold devises Gounkoto pact
- Realm boosts coal resource
- Red5 raises $15M for Siana
- Reed expands Meekatharra resource
- Rio prices bond issue
- Rockwell hopes to extend Saxendrift
- Roper Bar excluded from park
- SA port will lift Carpentaria prospects
- Shake-up gets results at Timmins mine
- Sierra posts maiden Luzon resource
- Stanmore increases Range resource
- Sumatra says licence imminent
- Sundance, Equatorial sign MOU
- Sylvania faces production cut
- Takatokwane update due soon
- Talisman underground potential
- THEMAC gets good Copper Flat news
- Tinma may extend Rambler backing
- TSX, ASX strike off Anvil
- Uranex starts big Likuyu program
- Vale appeal successful
- Venture adds modest DSO
- Venturex looks at Sulphur Springs hub
- Wah Nam wrap-up recommended
- Weednanna new IronClad target
- Wessels' experience welcomed
- Wetar offtake secured
- MINING INTELLIGENCE
- Why do mines perform poorly? Because they can
- PEOPLE
- People on the move: Coffey, AMC Consultants, Xstract, Bullabulling Gold, AusAmerican, Rubianna, Triple Point
- RUSSO'S RULES
- The Producer Ponzi Premium – is it out there?
- SOUTH AMERICA
- Cabral gets moving in Bahia
- VIEW FROM THE WEST END
- Try sometimes
