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Orion preps Prieska as funding takes shape

South Africa-focused Orion Minerals is busy prepping the Prieska project so when funding is eventually secured it can bring the historic copper-zinc mine back into production as quickly as possible.

Tom Hoskyns*
Workers gather around the shaft at Orion Minerals' Prieska mine in Northern Cape, South Africa

Workers gather around the shaft at Orion Minerals' Prieska mine in Northern Cape, South Africa

At the top of CEO Errol Smart's to do list on site is de-watering the 30-year old mine shaft, which has flooded to 300m below surface. Orion's original bankable feasibility study said it would take 14...

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