Definitely ready: Rodd returns with a victory

MELBOURNE CUP-winning jockey Michael Rodd made a successful return to the saddle yesterday when steering Definitely Ready to a course record-breaking victory at Sandown.

Resource Inventory Gives Ivanhoe A Lion-hearted Look

BILLIONAIRE mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland has put some meat on his recent local spin-off, Ivanhoe Australia (IVA), by revealing the metal inventory at IVA's Cloncurry projects in Queensland stands at more than 3.1 million tonnes of copper and 5.1 million ounces of gold.

Town So Hot It's First On The Solar Block

IT'S HOT in Cloncurry. Bloody hot. Hot enough to power the homes for all the outback town's 4828 residents with heat from the sun.

Cloncurry Potential Draws Canadian Precious Metals Magnate

THE big-time copper/gold/uranium potential of north-west Queensland's Cloncurry region is emerging as the next big play for billionaire mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland after he cemented his $US1.5 billion ($A1.8 billion) Mongolian copper play with Rio Tinto.

Ami Chief Sold At High Price

AUSTRALIAN Mining Investments entered the second week of its trading halt yesterday as executive chairman Wayne McCrae fronted a somewhat abridged shareholder meeting in Cloncurry, Queensland.

Ami Chief: Spies On My Ground

AUSTRALIAN Mining Investments executive chairman Wayne McCrae fronted a somewhat abridged shareholder meeting in Cloncurry, Queensland, and gave a tour of the Rocklands site to attendees yesterday.

Girls: Aussie Blokes Have Gone Bush

City women bemoaning a lack of men should head for the country, with new data showing men outnumber women four to one in some parts of rural Australia. There are four men for every woman in towns such as Wiluna, Leonora, Laverton and Meekatharra in Western Australia, Cloncurry, Eromanga and Quil

Cloncurry Into Black On Copper Successes

A strong second half from its new Queensland copper project has enabled Cloncurry Mining to post a maiden profit of $794,000 for the year to 31 December. The profit represents a turnaround from the loss of $1.13 million previously and reflects a second-half profit of $1.64 million that offset the

Conclurry, Majestic In Talks

Cloncurry Mining said yesterday it had started discussions with Majestic Resources NL about a possible merger of their respective interests in the Cloncurry area of Queensland. Cloncurry, the owner of the Great Australia copper mine, said that no assurance could be given that a merger would be conc

Crumb For The Giants May Be Food Of Success For Pegmont

THE Pegmont lead-zinc deposit near Cloncurry in north Queensland has been around for as long as Garimpeiro cares to remember. Discovered by Placer in the early 1970s, not much has been heard about the deposit since, a reflection of its ownership in more recent times by the likes of BHP, MIM and N

Dig Deep To Keep Docs Flying High

WHEN the first Flying Doctor took to the air over Cloncurry in 1928 it marked the beginning of a service that remains uniquely Australian. For 65 years, the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia has offered a free air medical service to people in the outback and, in keeping with John Flynn's

Cloncurry Looks To Cobalt Boost

Cloncurry Mining Company NL is to investigate a new cobalt extraction process and its potential to enhance revenues and profits from its $14.5 million Great Australia copper project at Cloncurry, in north-west Queensland. Under a cooperation agreement with Electrometals Mining Ltd and Ausenco Pt

Crisis At The Caa

On November 10 last year, the Federal Minister for Transport, Mr Brereton, answered a question by the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Downer, about the safety of Aero Commander aircraft, after the fatal crash at Cloncurry the previous day of a pistonengined, unpressurised model operated by World

Zinc Mine To Go Ahead

THE Century Zinc project at Cloncurry in Queensland is expected to be given the green light at CRA's annual meeting on Friday. Century Zinc will be one of the biggest zinc mines in the world producing 450,000 tonnes a year. This is almost double MIM's zinc output of 250,000 tonnes a year. Sha

Short-listed Writers Draw On A Range Of Backgrounds

MARY ANNE BAARTZ is the mother of four and grandmother of three. She is married to Michael Baartz, a printmaker. They live by a creek in a rainforest of northern NSW in a "tree house" built by Michael. When Mary Anne was five, her family moved to Cloncurry in north-west Queensland. He

Placer Commits $215m To Base Metals Debut

Placer Pacific Ltd is to outlay $215 million on its first foray into the Australian base metals industry after deciding to proceed with the development of its Osborne project in Queensland's rich Mt Isa/Cloncurry minerals belt. The Canadian-controlled company yesterday committed to the pro

Ernst Henry Story - A Comedy Of Errors

1974: Savage Exploration pegs mining leases near Cloncurry. The Savage agent who pegs the leases makes errors in the description of one of them, ML2671. 1989: WMC decides to explore the area and a year later enters a joint venture with Hunter Resources, which had acquired prior exploration tenem

Ernest Henry A Winner For Mim

MIM Holdings Ltd has emerged as the ultimate winner in the dust-up over the rich Ernest Henry deposit in Queensland's Cloncurry district. Analysts yesterday said that in one move MIM had been able to establish a strong position in the Cloncurry district after having failed to get in on the

Cloncurry Results Promising

The recently floated Cloncurry Mining Co NL has rewarded its shareholders by coming up with strong exploration results in its quest for an economic orebody in the north Queensland district of Cloncurry. The results were revealed yesterday in the company's June-quarter report, which highlig

Miners Scramble For Piece Of Cloncurry Action

Companies big and small are continuing to chase increased exposure to the Cloncurry copper belt in north Queensland despite copper's recent price slump. Yesterday, MIM announced a $15million deal to acquire the Eloise copper/gold deposit from BHP Minerals, while West Australian Metals NL snared a