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Murrin Murrin
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| Location | Laverton |
| State | Western Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Owner | |
| Company | Minara Resources (60%) Glencore (40%) |
| Website | Minara website Glencore website |
| ASX | MRE |
| Production | |
| Products | Nickel Cobalt |
| Production | Nickel: 30,514 t Cobalt: 2,018 t |
| Financial year | 2008 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1999 |
The Murrin Murrin Joint Venture is a major nickel-cobalt mining operation being conducted in the North Eastern Goldfields, approximately 60 km east of Leonora, Western Australia. The Project is a joint venture between Murrin Murrin Holdings Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Minara Resources Ltd (whose share is 60%) and Glenmurrin Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Glencore International AG, which has a 40% share but also owns 70% of Minara.
The mine opened in 1999.[1]
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Murrin Murrin mines a laterite nickel ore formed by deep weathering of a peridotite ultramafic rock.
Significant problems and delays were encountered in the design, construction and commissioning of the ore process plant at Murrin Murrin [2]
The designers, Fluor Daniel eventually had to pay the joint venture partners A$155 million in an out of court settlement. It was their second successful claim against Fluor, Murrin Murrin owners having been awarded $147 million from the first phase of their claim against Fluor, a sum which ultimately was reduced to $39.8 million. The Murrin Murrin project's original cost estimate of $1 billion had blown out $1.6 billion.[3]
Production of the mine:
| Year | Nickel | Cobalt |
| 2000 [1] | 13,027 t | 904 t |
| 2001 [1] | 25,991 t | 1,253 t |
| 2002 [1] | 30,009 t | 1,838 t |
| 2003 | ||
| 2004 [4] | 27,950 t | 1,982 t |
| 2005 [4] | 28,240 t | 1,750 t |
| 2006 [4] | 31,524 t | 2,096 t |
| 2007 [4] | 27,585 t | 1,884 t |
| 2008 [4] | 30,514 t | 2,018 t |
| 2009 |