OM Holdings says it will run the ruler over Consolidated Minerals' Woodie Woodie manganese mine in the Pilbara, which could unlock synergies between both companies.
Norwegian company Tinfos has turned its attention to Subiaco-based manganese explorer Spitfire Resources Ltd after losing out in the takeover race for Consolidated Minerals Ltd.
Technology with worldwide transport implications has added a new, potentially multi-billion dollar dimension to the manganese market and further underpins WA’s biggest manganese producer’s increasingly buoyant view of the commodity.
TRANSPORT costs are often the maker or breaker of new mining operations throughout regional WA, a point not lost on Consolidated Minerals Limited operations general manager Terry Stark.
07 May 2002
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