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Image used for illustrative purpose. Excavators sit idle in a nickel-mining area on the hill of Pomala village in Southeast Sulawesi province September 2, 2012. The most dramatic effect of new regulations on Indonesia's mining industry has been on mineral exports, which surged as companies fought to beat a May 6 export tax deadline and plunged thereafter. Nowhere is the human impact of the slide more visible than in the remote mining communities of Sulawesi, an island east of Borneo and the country's main source of nickel. Picture taken September 2, 2012. To match Feature INDONESIA-MINING/EXPLORERS REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad
Australia-listed Resource Mining Corporation (RMI) has started its maiden 2,000-metre reverse circulation drill programme at the Liparamba Nickel Project in Southern Tanzania to find nickel resources.
The fieldwork led to identifying sulphides within mafics along the two-kilometre-long southern corridor, the company said in a statement.
The drilling will likely take four to five weeks to complete, with results anticipated in the next quarter.
RMI CEO Andrew Nesbitt said they are confident that the drill programme will successfully advance the company’s strategy of locating significant nickel resources within our Tanzanian project portfolio.
(Writing by P Deol; Editing by Anoop Menon)
