RMLA Rusina Mining

 

TIDMRMLA 
 
RNS Number : 1714J 
Rusina Mining NL 
25 March 2010 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
                                                                  25 March 2010 
 
                                Rusina Mining NL 
                          ("Rusina" or the "Company") 
 
      Key Environmental Compliance Certificates granted for Rusina's Acoje 
                   nickel-chromite project in the Philippines 
 
Rusina Mining NL (ASX code: RML, AIM code: RMLA) is pleased to announce the 
issuance of two additional Environmental Compliance Certificates (ECCs) for the 
Acoje nickel-chromite project on Luzon Island in the Philippines. 
The Company is developing the Acoje Heap Leach Project in partnership with 
European Nickel plc, which is earning a 40% project interest by spending US$10m 
on the feasibility study. Recently, both companies announced a proposed merger 
(see announcement 3 February, 2010). The merger's Scheme Booklet is expected to 
be forwarded to Rusina shareholders in April. 
An ECC sets out the guidelines and measures for the development of the intended 
project and is the principle permit for mining operation within the Philippines. 
It is issued by the Philippines' Department of Environment and Natural Resources 
(DENR) through the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB). 
The Acoje Project already has two existing ECCs that allow the Direct Shipping 
of Nickel Laterite Ores in addition to the operation of a nickel laterite Pilot 
Heap Leach Facility. The new ECCs cover the construction and operation of the 
full scale nickel Heap Leach Project as well as the separate operation of 
surface/underground mining and processing of chromite ores at Acoje. 
There are several ECC conditions still to be satisfied or permits issued before 
either the Nickel Heap Leach Project or the Chromite Mining Project could 
commence construction. A number of these involve the revision and/or 
continuation of existing conditions from the previous ECCs. 
Details of the two new ECCs are set out below: 
Nickel Heap Leach Project 
The nickel heap leach ECC covers the extraction and processing of nickel 
laterite ore into a mixed hydroxide product. The major components of the project 
which the ECC covers are as follows: 
·    Mining - extraction of three million dry metric tonnes of nickel laterite 
ore per annum by surface mining for 10 years in 400 hectares out of the 3,675 
hectares of the Acoje tenement; 
·    Heap Leach Processing Plant (HLPP) - processing of the nickel laterite ore 
through a plant comprising of an Agglomerator, Heap Leach Pads with 40 modules 
of approximately 63,000 cubic metres of ore per module, Five Process Ponds and a 
Precipitation Plant for the recovery of metals from the pregnant solution; 
·    Sulphuric Acid Plant - to provide up to 4,545 metric tonnes of 98.5% 
sulphuric acid for the HLPP as well as to provide steam for the 36 MW power 
plant; 
·    Water Storage Dam with a capacity of 1.7 million cubic metres, and 
·    Various storage and containment facilities as well as road and power access 
requirements. 
 
Chromite Mining Project 
This certificate is an enhancement of and extension to the ECC issued on 22 
February 2008 for the nickel Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) operations. The major 
components of the project are as follows: 
·    Surface and underground mining rate of 415,800 metric tonnes per annum of 
chromite ore and 315,000 metric tonnes of chromite laterite ore; 
·    Processing plant for chromite with a production capacity of 378,000 tonnes 
per annum; 
·    Construction of all access roads, storage facilities, tailings ponds and 
silt traps, mine facilities, power and port as relevant to the chromite project, 
and 
·    Extraction of 1 million tonnes of nickel laterite ore per annum for DSO. 
 
 
For further information, please contact the undersigned or email 
rusinaadmin@rusina.com.au. 
 
 
 Enquiries to: 
Mr Robert G M Gregory                           Mr Mark Hanlon 
CEO & Managing Director                        Chief Financial Officer 
Rusina Mining NL                                      +61 8 9226 1111 
 
 
 
This information is provided by RNS 
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange 
   END 
 
 MSCUVURRRAAOUAR 
 

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