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lluka Resources has awarded Fluor Australia the contract to complete the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and undertake Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services for the Eneabba rare earths refinery in Western Australia.

Keep up with the latest progress in Australian mines, including from OZ Minerals, Glencore, Iluka, Stanmore and Anglo American.

Iluka Resources’ Eneabba rare earths project in Western Australia is developing nicely with phase two of the project in progress.

Iluka’s Eneabba rare earth refinery at the Eneabba mine site has made it through the Environmental Protection Authority referral process.

Iluka Resources has restarted production at synthetic rutile kiln 2 (SR2), part the Capel rutile operations in Western Australia, after lifting a suspension on activities at the operation.

Iluka Resources managing director Tom O’Leary regards the company’s rare earths position as an “important and exciting opportunity” for the mineral sands company.

Iluka Resources has commenced legal proceedings against its American client, Chemours, after failing to pay the mining company for its scheduled shipments.

Iluka Resources has experienced a decline in mineral sands revenue amid difficult market conditions for zircon.

SIMPEC has received another $5 million in scope extensions to its current structural, mechanical and piping (SMP) electrical and instrumentation (E&I) contracts in Western Australia.

Iluka has suffered a reduction in first half sales this year despite ramping up production of zircon, rutile and synthetic rutile (Z/R/SR).

SIMPEC has added around $5 million in extensions to its contracts across all the structural, mechanical and piping, and electrical and instrumentation disciplines in Western Australia.

Iluka Resources and Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan have officially opened the Cataby mineral sands mine in Western Australia.

Iluka Resources has faced further strike action by its workforce at the Sierra Rutile operations, drawing the intervention of the President of Sierra Leone.

Iluka Resources has awarded national catering and facility management services contract to Australian-owned Cater Care.

Swift Networks has won multiple contracts to provide its suite of entertainment and connectivity services to new and existing resources industry sites across Australia.

WestStar business, SIMPEC, has won more mining services work, including a contract with BHP. SIMPEC secured its first contract for construction work at Iluka Resources’ Cataby mineral sands development in Western Australia last November.

Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources has approved development of its Cataby project in Western Australia after securing offtake agreements for majority of its synthetic rutile production.

SIMPEC, a subsidiary of WestStar Industrial, has been awarded its first contract – construction work at Iluka Resources’ Cataby mineral sands project in Western Australia.

Iluka Resources will restart mining at the Jacinth-Ambrosia zircon mine in South Australia in December, reflecting a lift in market conditions and boosting employment in the region.

Iluka Resources is proposing to develop a new mineral sands project in south-western New South Wales.