ASX-listed Metallica Minerals on Monday announced that focus at its Urquhart bauxite project, in Queensland, would shift to explore the viability of mining a potential industrial sand product.
Metallica told shareholders that it was recommending that the joint venture (JV) with private Chinese firm Ozore should delay the completion of a planned prefeasibility study into a bauxite operation at Urquhart until the potential industrial sand opportunity has been investigated further, and the JV better understood if the sand mining opportunity was viable.