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CAPRICoRN FUELs UP FoR FUTURE BosTECH BACK FoR MoRE IN THE yULE BAsIN
KARLAwINdA MINE Bostech Drilling Australia Pty Ltd is overseeing Golden State
Mining Ltd’s maiden aircore drilling programme at Yule South,
Capricorn Metals Ltd has entered into agreements with APA
Group for the transportation of gas from the Goldfields Gas about 13km north-east of De Grey Mining Ltd’s recent Hemi
discovery.
Pipeline (GGP) to the company’s Karlawinda project, about
70km south-east of Newman. More than 10,000m is expected to be drilled across five priority
gold target areas at Yule South. The first hole was punched
APA will also build, own and operate the lateral pipeline
that links the GGP to Karlawinda. It is expected that about into the ground on July 2.
3 terajoules of gas per day will be transported through the Bostech assisted De Grey with the discovery of Hemi earlier
pipeline for power generation at the upcoming gold mine. this year.
Capricorn recently executed a power supply agreement with “We are delighted to have secured the services of Bostech
Contract Power Australia Ptd Ltd for the construction of a who are not only highly regarded in the exploration sector,
16MW gas-fuelled power station with 2MW of diesel back-up. but have crucial experience in drilling similar rock types and
cover at the Hemi prospect,” Golden State managing director
“We look forward to a successful long-term partnership
with these high-quality companies to meet our energy Michael Moore said.
requirements,” Capricorn executive chairman Mark Clark said.
“The completion of these contracts, combined with the current EAGLE FLIEs HIGH AGAIN FoR GREAT
low price of gas in Western Australia present Capricorn with a NoRTHERN
very attractive cost of power generation for the operation of the
Great Northern Minerals Ltd has awarded the drilling contract
Karlawinda project.”
for its forthcoming drilling campaign in North Queensland to
Charters Towers-based Eagle Drilling.
The drilling contract is comprised of a RC programme of about
3,400m across all three of Great Northern’s projects and will
initially test a 1.2km gold mineralised zone at Camel Creek.
It will be the first time any drilling has been undertaken at Camel
Creek since the project was last mined in 1988 when over
57,000oz of gold was produced from a heap leach operation.
Eagle Drilling successfully completed Great Northern’s last
two drilling programmes.

oUToTEC dELIVERING THE Goods AT
sALAREs NoRTE

Outotec is delivering the required equipment for the proposed
2 mtpa concentrator plant at Gold Fields Ltd’s Salares Norte
project in the Atacama region of northern Chile.
APA Group will build, own and operate a lateral gas
pipeline that links the Goldfields Gas Pipeline to The scope of work includes the design and delivery of one
Capricorn’s upcoming Karlawinda mine 4MW SAG mill and one 4MW Ball mill, as well as five thickeners
and one clarifier to be used in different process phases.

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