First Quantum Minerals — Fact Sheet (April 2012)

3 slides from First Quantum Minerals's fact sheet, April 2012

Slide 1: Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation, Australia
RAVENSTHORPE NICKEL OPERATION, AUSTRALIA The Ravensthorpe nickel operation is owned 100% by a First Quantum subsidiary. It is located 550 kilometres south-east of Perth and 35 kilometres east of the town of Ravensthorpe along the South Coast Highway. Ravensthorpe AUSTRALIA First Quantum Minerals acq
Slide 2: Production: Mining and Processing, Geological Setting and Mineralization
RAVENSTHORPE NICKEL OPERATION, AUSTRALIA Production Mining and Processing Geological Setting and Mineralization Operations involve the open pit mining and beneficiation of nickel laterite ore, There are three nickel laterite deposits - Halleys, Hale-Bopp and Shoemaker- pressure acid leaching (PAL),
Slide 3: Workforce, Mine Life and Mineral Reserves
zones and include the surficial cover, lateritic residuum and leached siliceous Workforce pedolith zones. The nickel-enriched zone forms a gently undulating blanket On a full-time basis, the mine is expected to eventually employ approximately beneath the barren units, whilst cobalt mineralization oc