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22 September 2010 |  |
Participants will be picked up from the Vibe Hotel Darwin at 6.45am for a 7am sharp departure. The bus trip will take approximately 2.5 hours. Once on site, participants will be taken on a tour of the mine including a site introduction, view of the current operating Pit 3, and a drive around the processing plant.
The site visit will be approximately two hours duration, after which the participants will all enjoy a light lunch on site before being transported back to the Vibe Hotel Darwin.
ERA Ranger Mine Tour is sold out. You can join the wait list. You will be notified if available.
About ERA:
Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA) is one of the largest uranium producers in the world, producing around 10 per cent of the world's mined uranium production.
Since 1980, the Company has mined ore and produced drummed uranium oxide at its Ranger mine, 260 kilometres east of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. ERA sells its product to power utilities in Asia, Europe and North America under strict international and Australian Government safeguards. The Company aims to secure profitable, long term sales contracts for uranium oxide produced from the Ranger mine.
25 September 2010 | |
Participants will be picked up from the Vibe Hotel Darwin at 8:30am and travel by bus to Darwin Port. Once on site, participants will be taken on a tour around the port by Robert Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, Darwin Port Corporation.
The tour will begin with a site introduction. Darwin's East Arm wharf facility is a working port that services a wide range of industries and commodities. These include oil platform supply vessels, large bulk ore carriers, general and containerized cargo and petroleum imports. Bulk commodity ore is received and stored at the port and transported by truck to the quayside. The site visit will be approximately 2 hours duration, after which the participants will be transported back to the Vibe Hotel Darwin.
Be sure to indicate your attendance on the registration form when booking!
About Darwin Port Corporation
The Port of Darwin is a multi-modal, future-focused port which is strategically positioned as Australia's nearest port to Asia and the nation's 'northern gateway'. It is the northern terminus of the AustralAsia Railway that links Australia with its trading partners in Asia and throughout the world.
The Darwin Port Corporation (DPC) is currently spending significant investment capital to upgrade Port facilities to meet the growing needs of exporters and importers.
The Port of Darwin is the region's offshore supply, service and distribution hub for the offshore oil and gas industry and platforms in the Arafura Sea, Timor Sea and waters off the coast of Western Australia, including those in the Bayu-Undan field which supplies the LNG production facility at Wickham Point in Darwin Harbour.
