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Gippsland tantalum-tin gets go-ahead in Egypt

15:20, Monday, 10 October 2005

Sydney - Monday - October 10: (RWE Australian Business News) -
Gippsland Ltd (GIP) reports the Environmental Impact Assessment for
the Company's 40Mt Egyptian Abu Dabbab tantalum-tin project has been
approved by the Egyptian Government's Environmental Affairs Agency.
The EIA was undertaken by the Egyptian environment Group
Environics and Dorsch Consult (Germany); the international environmental
engineering group Knight Piésold also made a substantial contribution to
the EIA.
The structure and content of the EIA, undertaken over a period
of some 16 months, was completed in accordance with guidelines
established by the World Bank Group which complemented those
provided by Egyptian legislation.
The EIA process was conducted in parallel and interactively with
project design.