Re: Port Pirie plant almost a reality

[John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au>]

In article <Br_Q5.30$6B3.3853@news0.optus.net.au>,
  dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> Plans for a $580 million magnesium plant near Port Pirie took a big
> step forward yesterday with German industrial group Thyssen Krupp
> Metalurgie agreeing to purchase 52,500 tonnes of magnesium per year.
> The plant will process magnesite railed from Leigh Creek.

I know nothing about magnesite ore.  Is that 52,500 tonnes the total
amount to be railed, or that the amount of magnesite contained within an
ore body which needs further refining/processing?  1,000 tonnes railed
per week is hardly going to make any carrier rich.

JD
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