Western Areas: Odysseus rising
WESTERN Areas is bang on track to coincide production at its Odysseus project with the expected high demand for nickel in the electric vehicle market in 2022. The project sits within the Cosmos nickel complex, alongside Western Areas’ existing Forrestainia operation in WA, 28km northwest of BHP’s Leinster nickel operations. Western Areas managing director and chief executive officer Daniel Lougher said that early works on site were almost complete. “Early works was being done in parallel with the definitive feasibility study and included dewatering, creating evaporation ponds and doing some work at the camp plus the rehabilitation of the existing decline underground,” Mr Lougher said. “We’re now sitting fully rehabbed down to a vertical depth of about 500m below the…