Copper developer Orion Minerals has been granted environmental authorisation (EA) for mining the Bardacube resource at its Prieska copper/zinc project, in the Northern Cape.
The company told shareholders on Monday that the grant of the EA for the Vardocube resource, which covers the south-eastern strike extension of the Prieska orebody, followed the 2019 grant of a mining right at Prieska.
The EA also represented a major step towards the development of the Prieska project, and cleared the way for construction to start, following project financing.