BHP powering ahead with plans to lift Nickel West production

Mining major BHP’s Nickel West division is powering ahead with plans to increase production at its Leinster operation, in Western Australia.

Nickel West head of integrated operations, Karl Stokes, told delegates at the Australian Nickel conference, in Perth, on Tuesday that the division’s aspirations of returning the Leinster concentrator to 40 000 t/y of nickel would take a number of years to complete, as the company worked to bring its new mine developments on stream.