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Cadia expansion moves forward

NEWCREST Mining has unveiled a plan to expand its Cadia copper-gold operation to 33 million tonnes per annum and develop another panel cave for $598 million and advanced the project to the feasibility study stage.

The proposed expansion of Cadia's process plant.

The proposed expansion of Cadia's process plant.

The company believes that with some debottlenecking it will be able to take the process plant up to 35Mtpa. The feasibility study will be looking at the development of the next macro block PC2-3 panel...

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