Hindalco Industries Ltd, owns 51 per cent of
Aditya Birla Minerals Ltd., (ABML) a company
having 100 per cent holding in Birla Nifty Pty
Limited and Birla Mt. Gordon Pty Limited located
in Western Australia and Queensland, respectively.
ABML, an S&P ASX 300 Index company, is the
largest pure copper company listed on the Australian
Stock Exchange.
ABML has mining and exploration activities focused
at the Nifty copper operation in the Pilbara
region, northwest Australia, and the Mt Gordon
copper operation in northwest Queensland, Australia.
Birla Nifty Pty Limited
The Nifty copper operation consists of an underground mine, heap leach pads and a solvent extraction and electro winning (SX–EW) processing plant and a copper concentrator plant. A copper sulphide deposit is located at the lower levels of the Nifty open pit mine and an underground mine and concentrator have been developed to mine and process 2.3 mtpa ore from this deposit.
The Nifty sulphide operation commenced ore production from stoping in December 2005 and concentrate production in March 2006. During FY2009, Nifty produced 49,600 tonnes of copper in concentrate. Birla Nifty’s copper cathode capacity is 25 ktpa. Open pit mining was completed in 2006. During FY 2009, Nifty produced 2,996 tonnes of copper cathode.
Birla Mt. Gordon
Pty Limited
Mt. Gordon operations include underground mining operations and a concentrator plant with a milling capacity to process up to 1.5 mtpa of ore to produce copper in concentrate.
The Mt Gordon copper operation consists of an underground and open pit mine, a copper concentrate plant and ferric leach plant. Until recently, the operation produced copper cathode through the ferric leach process. In 2004, a copper concentrator was commissioned to provide concentrate for use at Hindalco’s operations in Dahej. During FY2009, Mt. Gordon produced 17,815 tonnes of copper in concentrate, before it was put under care and maintenance in January 2009.
Both Nifty and Mt. Gordon have a long term life of mine off-take agreement with Hindalco for supply of copper concentrate to the copper smelter at Dahej, Gujarat.
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