BHP Plans First Uranium Output From Yeelirrie Mine In 2014
May 21 2009 - 6:50PM
Dow Jones News
BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP.AU) said Friday it plans to produce the
first uranium from its Yeelirrie project in Western Australian in
2014 and has submitted documents for the project with the state and
federal governments.
"Current plans project construction commencing in 2011, with
initial production from the mine in 2014, subject to government and
BHP Billiton board approvals," the miner said in a statement.
BHP has referred its plans for the Yeelirrie project to the
Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority and the
federal Department of the Environment, and the company said the
referral was an important step in the progress of the project and
the preparation of an environmental impact statement.
A spokesman for the miner said production from Yeelirrie is
expected to be in the order of 5,000 metric tons a year.
The company has recently completed a concept study on the miner
and it is now carrying out a pre-feasibility study.
-By Alex Wilson, Dow Jones Newswires; 61-3-9292-2094;
alex.wilson@dowjones.com