Rio starts work on new bauxite mine
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Diversified giant Rio Tinto has awarded a A$70-million bulk earthworks contract to Queensland-based civil engineering firm QBrit for work at its A$2.6-billion Amrun bauxite project, in Cape York.
The project will produce at an initial rate of 22.8-million tonnes a year, with the option to expand to up to 50-million tonnes a year, with first output targeted for 2019.
Production from the Amrun project will replace the depleted East Weipa mine, and will increase the overall bauxite exports from Weipa by about 10-million tonnes.
“Since being declared a prescribed project, Queensland’s independent Coordinator-General has been monitoring all approvals the proponent requires and facilitating the timely delivery of approval processes,” acting Minister for State Development, Bill Byrne, said on Thursday.
“The Coordinator-General also approved a number of key change requests from the proponent.
“This project builds on Rio Tinto’s long-standing existing operations in Gladstone and Weipa which have supplied the raw product used to produce 10% of the world’s aluminium,” he said.
Once operational, the Amrun project will support the continued employment of the current 1 400-strong workforce based in Weipa, as well as more than 2 000 employees based at the Yarwun and Queensland aluminium refineries in Gladstone that are fed with bauxite from Cape York.
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