{"id":430,"date":"2010-11-04T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T06:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-11-04T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T06:23:39","slug":"extract-bfs-for-worlds-second-largest-uranium-mine-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/extract-bfs-for-worlds-second-largest-uranium-mine-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Extract: BFS for World&#039;s second largest Uranium mine in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so I opined it was time to get back into Extract. It seems that the market agreed and those of you that bought in are now being rewarded&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Extract Resources has told investors they will have to wait an extra three months for the long-awaited bankable feasibility study over its Namibian uranium mine.<\/p>\n<p>Extract chief executive Jonathan Leslie told shareholders at today&#8217;s annual meeting that the feasibility study would not be released this year as planned but in the first quarter of 2011 instead.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the three-month delay did not mean much, given the scope of the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a very aggressive timetable,&#8221; he told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think shareholders will mind the delay. It&#8217;s a very large project and a slip of a quarter is nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said Extract hoped to start commissioning Husab &#8211; formerly known as the Rossing South project &#8211; in early 2014 and it would be about an 18 month ramp-up to full production.<\/p>\n<p>With forecast annual production of 15 million pounds of uranium,<strong> Husab would be the second biggest uranium mine in the world<\/strong>.<br \/>\nExtract shares were up 25 cents, or 3.17 per cent, to $8.15 shortly before market close.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-429\" title=\"extract-strong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/extract-strong.gif\" alt=\"extract-strong\" width=\"633\" height=\"573\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so I opined it was time to get back into Extract. It seems that the market agreed and those of you that bought in are now being rewarded&#8230;. Extract Resources has told investors they will have to wait an extra three months for the long-awaited bankable feasibility study over its Namibian uranium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/extract-bfs-for-worlds-second-largest-uranium-mine-in-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Extract: BFS for World&#039;s second largest Uranium mine in 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}