re: denny dalton ... infrasrtucture
Infrastructure is not a problem.
The town of Denny Dalton is only 6 nautical miles from Ulundi which is the co-capital of Kwazulu-Natal Province, with good roads, rail etc. It is also only 51 Nautical miles from the city of Richards Bay which is host to Richards Bay Minerals, jointly owned by Rio Tinto plc and BHP Billiton. The company supplies about: a quarter of the world's pigment and welding rod market, a quarter of the iron for ductile iron castings, a quarter of the world's zircon.
Regarding the port:
Richards Bay is SA's premier bulk port and the most modern. Built in 1976 for the export of coal, it has since expanded into other bulk and breakbulk cargoes. In 2004 the port handled 85 million tonnes of cargo.
A dedicated railway line links the port with Mpumalanga Province and Gauteng, designed specifically for and along which most of the country's coal exports are handled. Other rail links connect Richards Bay with Durban in the south and Swaziland and Mpumalanga to the north. There is an adequate road system to Gauteng, Swaziland, Mozambique and Mpumalanga, and an excellent road south to Durban.
The port occupies 2,157 ha of land area and 1,495 ha of water area at present, with the potential of increasing both as required making Richards Bay potentially one of the largest ports worldwide. Richards Bay serves the coalfields of KwaZulu Natal and Mpumalanga Province as well as timber and granite exporters from as far away as the East Cape and Northern Cape Provinces. Exports are the main activity of the port.
The main questions we need answered are:
1] How deep is the uranium ore? 2] What cut-off grade was used in the original resource report? 3] What is the ore geology? Is it a Breccia deposit, or a Quartz-pebble conglomerate deposit? 4] Therefore how difficult/expensive to mine, & is it currently an economic proposition? 5] What gold is there? And do they see the U being mined as a by-product, or by itself? 6] What potential is there potential to increase tonnage?
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