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Orion seeks to develop new, modern copper mine over historical success

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Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor
 
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With a secondary listing on the JSE now firmly under its belt, Australian base metals firm Orion Minerals is looking to reignite the development of a South African mining asset it believes was abandoned well before its prime – the Prieska zinc/copper project, in the Northern Cape. However, for Orion, it is not so much the reviving of an old mine, but rather the “building of a new mine on an old mine’s footprint”, applying modern technology that previous generation miners never had, to unveil the orebody gems believed to be hidden in the region.
 
 
 
 
 

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