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hundredvanities1on Jul 09, 2012 3:54pm
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RE: RE: RE: RE: Slaughter
RE: RE: RE: RE: Slaughter Industry norms/averages in recent years = skyrocketing costs for labor and equipment. The Nunavut norm is a massive cost blowout for the only producing mine in the region (Meadowbank was estimated to cost $400 million capex, ending up costing $1.3 billion).
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The feasibility study will be based on power being produced by arctic diesel (expensive but proven), not the unproven, "remote" LNG solution.
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Tetra Tech will take all of this into account and deliver a realistic assessment. If the truth is ugly they won't dress it up. That's what they showed with the Selwyn zinc project (feasibility work showed that planned production "will not provide an economic return," and no study was released).