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Minara flags 22pc cut to output after outage at Murrin Murrin plant
By The Australian · July 13, 2011 · 3:12 am · Leave a Comment
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By David Fickling
OPERATIONS at Minara Resources’ Murrin Murrin nickel plant have restarted following a failure last month but production will be up to 22 per cent below previous forecasts, the company said today.
The company packaged 7157 metric tonnes of nickel during the second quarter to June 30 and expects to produce 29,000 tonnes to 32,000 tonnes in the full year, against previous guidance of 33,000 tonnes to 37,000 tonnes in an April update.
The company blamed the shortfall on problems announced June 30 with Murrin Murrin’s acid plant.
Today, Minara said a replacement heat exchanger has now been installed in the acid plant, the part of the facility where acid is run through ore to extract a nickel-rich solution.
Minara is 72 per cent-owned by Glencore International, which also owns 40 per cent of the Murrin Murrin project.
