Element 25 secures final approval for WA manganese mine expansion

Element 25’s Butcherbird expansion project in WA gets final approval

Element 25 has received the final statutory approval from the Western Australia (WA) Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) for the expansion of its Butcherbird Manganese Mine.The post Element 25’s Butcherbird expansion project in WA gets final approval appeared first on Mining Technology.

Element 25 secures final approval for WA manganese mine expansion

Australian manganese producer Element 25 has received final approval for the expansion of its Butcherbird mine in Western Australia, with the company now cleared to increase the mine's production capacity to 1.1-million tonnes a year of manganese concentrate. The updated feasibility study for the expansion study, released in January, estimates a capital cost of A$64.8-million for the construction of a large-scale processing facility. With a proj…