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Aditya Birla lowers production expectations

14th January 2015

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

  

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Copper miner Aditya Birla has downgraded its full-year to March copper production, from between 16 000 t and 18 000 t, to between 13 000 t and 15 000 t of copper.

The miner told shareholders on Wednesday that the reduced output guidance for 2015 resulted from a delay in the commissioning of new stopes, owing to changed ground conditions at its Nifty mine, in Western Australia, which required alternative safety plans.

The changed ground conditions also necessitated the deferment from short-term to life-of-mine plans for higher-grade stopes from the South Limb ore block. Aditya noted that replacement contingency stopes have been scheduled and now required development.

Mining operations at the Nifty project resumed in July last year, after mining was suspended in March following the discovery of a sinkhole.

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