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Paladin sizes up Langer Heinrich restart

Paladin sizes up Langer Heinrich restart

PALADIN Energy has completed the first of a two-part prefeasibility study (PFS1) to assess the restart of its Namibian uranium mine, Langer Heinrich. The company said that it can return to production after a rapid 12-month ramp-up and would require about US$80m to return to production levels of about 5.2mlb pa. The capital would be divided into US$38m needed for plant repair and US$42 needed for working capital. Production could increase to about 6.5mlb pa through expansion of the mine during the ramp-up period, which the company said would target the processing of high and medium-grade ore over a six-year period at an additional cost of $US30m. PFS1 put the mine potentially back in production within 12 months of securing...

Boss Resources: Development Ready

Boss Resources: Development Ready

All images: Boss Resources. BY ELIZABETH FABRI BOSS Resources is the proud owner of the Honeymoon project, one of the few Australian uranium projects ready to participate in the early stages of a new bull market. We spoke with Boss Resources managing director and chief executive Duncan Craib about the mine’s restart plan, technologies chosen for processing, and his outlook for the uranium market in the near-term. Q. Take us through the re-start strategy for Honeymoon. In July 2018 the company launched the re-start strategy for the Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia, as categorised into three key phases; Phase 1: The generation of the final input data required for the DFS including the drilling program...