Northern Minerals advances pilot plant at Browns Range

Rare earths developer Northern Minerals has moved ahead with its new mine plan at the Browns Range project, in Western Australia, appointing project house Entech to undertake the detailed planning of a 60 000 t/y pilot plant. Entech would provide engineering services to design, schedule and cost the proposed openpit mines for the pilot plant at Browns Range, with the work to include pit optimisation, detailed pit design and mine schedules, which along with surface infrastructure design, would be used to determine the mining costs for the pilot plant.