allegiance mining starts nickel mining at tasm

Allegiance Mining starts nickel mining at Tasmania mine

Tokyo (Platts)--24Oct2007
Australia's Allegiance Mining has started mining for nickel concentrate
at the Avebury mine in Tasmania, Australia, a company official said on
Wednesday.
The mining contractor had recently started mining, while milling and
production operations are expected to start early 2008, said Paul Richardson,
general manager of Avebury's operations, at the 2007 Paydirt Australian Nickel
Conference held in Perth.
The Avebury orebudy has the world's highest grade of nickel concentrate
with 12 million mt of ore, which has a nickel content of 1.11%, equivalent to
131,000 mt of nickel metal, Allegiance said.
Allegiance Mining is owned 11% by China's Jinchuan Nickel, which supplies
90% of China's nickel.