{"id":737,"date":"2012-02-08T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2012-02-08T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:30:50","slug":"aura-energy-australias-second-largest-uranium-resource-strong-ve-economic-results-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/aura-energy-australias-second-largest-uranium-resource-strong-ve-economic-results-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Aura Energy Australia&#039;s second largest Uranium resource &#8211; strong +ve economic results confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRONG POSITIVE ECONOMIC RESULTS CONFIRMED<br \/>\nFOR H\u00c4GG\u00c5N \u2013 MOVING TO PRE-FEASIBILITY<br \/>\nHIGHLIGHTS<br \/>\nIndependent consultants have completed the first Scoping Study for the  H\u00e4gg\u00e5n<br \/>\nProject:<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Scoping study confirms economic viability for bioheap leach project<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Net Present Value (NPV) &#8211; US$1,090M (pre-tax, 10% discount rate)<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 47%<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Total life of mine capital costs of US$769 million, including sustaining capital<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Payback in approximately 4.3 years, or less than a fifth of current project life<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Operating costs of US$36\/lb uranium net of by-products<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Low mining costs &#8211; strip ratio of 0.75:1<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Nominal 30 Mtpa operation with a 25 year initial mine life &#8211; scope to expand<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Target initial annual production of 6.6 Mlbs uranium, 14.8 Mlbs nickel and 3.6<br \/>\nMlbs molybdenum; target would place H\u00e4gg\u00e5n in the top 10 uranium mining<br \/>\noperations<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Sweden &#8211; excellent jurisdiction to develop a very long life mining operation<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Similar-sized multi-metal bioheap leach operation in neighbouring Finland<br \/>\n\uf0b7 Next-step: PRE-FEASIBILITY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRONG POSITIVE ECONOMIC RESULTS CONFIRMED FOR H\u00c4GG\u00c5N \u2013 MOVING TO PRE-FEASIBILITY HIGHLIGHTS Independent consultants have completed the first Scoping Study for the H\u00e4gg\u00e5n Project: \uf0b7 Scoping study confirms economic viability for bioheap leach project \uf0b7 Net Present Value (NPV) &#8211; US$1,090M (pre-tax, 10% discount rate) \uf0b7 Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 47% \uf0b7 Total life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/aura-energy-australias-second-largest-uranium-resource-strong-ve-economic-results-confirmed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aura Energy Australia&#039;s second largest Uranium resource &#8211; strong +ve economic results confirmed&#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-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}