The board of Chinese-owned MMG Limited has approved the US$1.57bn capital expenditure programme to bring the Dugald River project in Australia into production. The company has invested US$310m in the project so far, and expects to produce its first shipment of concentrate in late 2015. This is one year later than the initial plan to start-up in 2014. Dugald River is expected to produce concentrates containing about 200kt of zinc and 27kt of lead.
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