Consolidated deals well overseas

WA-BASED manganese miner Consolidated Minerals Limited has clinched two important deals for the sale of product from its Pilbara mine.

The company has negotiated a five-year contract with Austrian trading house DCM Decometal to supply 90,000 tonnes of manganese ore a year to the Nikopal Ferro Alloy plant.

Consolidated has also

successfully negotiated sales of 40,000t of manganese lump ore to Korean manganese alloy

makers for delivery during 1999/2000.