Preferred hydraulic mining contractors selected for Century tailings

ASX-listed New Century Resources has selected Australia-based National Pump and Energy (NPE) and South Africa-based Paragon Tailings as the preferred contractors for hydraulic mining service works for the Century tailings deposit, in north-west Queensland. NPE and Paragon have proposed a two-duty, two standby cannon arrangement to achieve the initial planned eight-million-ton-a-year operation at Century, prior to the addition of a further two duty cannons to achieve ramp-up to the scheduled 15-million tons a year.