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ADELAIDE-based Minotaur Exploration is reporting positive drill results from its inaugural Osborne copper-gold drill program as it looks to complete an off-market takeover for junior Breakaway Resources. The four-hole, 1240m diamond drill program tested for copper-gold mineralisation south of the Osborne copper-gold mine in the Cloncurry district of Queensland. Assay results from holes at the Brolga prospect recorded 0.39g per tonne of gold associated with quartz-pyrite veining, while results from the Wedgetail prospect included 1.65 per cent copper associated with sulphide-bearing breccia. Minotaur stated that the results confirmed widespread development of copper-gold mineralisation under cover across the region south of the Osborne mine, with numerous targets to be followed up across the project area. On 2 September it reported results...

Fortescue launches positive power plan at APEC Fortescue Metals (ASX:FMG) has launched the positive power plan at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Fransisco. The plan was developed by Fortescue is response to global research and a lecture tour that escalating atmosphere heat is accelerating global humidity levels to a level that can be lethal. In response to this, Fortescue formed the Lethal Humidity Global Council of scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, NASA, MIT, Harvard, CSIRO, Sydney University, Melbourne University, IIT Delhi, Peking University and Tsinghua University. These scientists warned that lethal humidity — which is currently responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide — could be responsible...

Rio Tinto’s Amrun project. BY CAMERON DRUMMOND RIO TINTO has awarded a $100 million contract to power provider Aggreko Australia Pacific to build and operate a 20MW power station at its $2.6 billion Amrun bauxite project near Weipa in North QLD. The station is to be a high efficiency modular diesel power system that includes engine efficiency upgrades and a heat-recovery system, to be deployed over the 15 year term of the contract which comes with a five year extension option. Rio Tinto Amrun general manager Marcia Hanrahan said the contract to build the power station signified another important milestone for delivery of the Amrun project. “The power delivery expertise and operational capabilities that the Aggreko team will bring will...

BHP partners with Curtin to tackle toad invasion BHP (ASX: BHP) is collaborating with Curtin University to fund a project aimed at protecting WA’s Pilbara region from the harmful impact of a potential cane toad invasion. Cane toads, an introduced species, have been found roaming the northern part of the Pilbara since 2009. There is concern that a further spread will cause irreparable damage to the Pilbara’s biodiversity and protected places of cultural importance. Curtin University research into the outbreak is proposing a 150km toad containment zone between Broome and Port Hedland. This would stop the toads from being able to access artificial water points, including cattle watering tanks and troughs. This potential containment zone will form a waterless barrier...