PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Operations at the Ramu nickel plant, in Papua New Guinea, have been suspended following a fatality.
ASX-listed Highlands Pacific, which holds an 8.56% interest in the project, said on Wednesday that one worker was killed and a further two injured while working around high-pressure vessels at the nickel processing plant.
Investigations into the cause of the incident were under way.
Ramu had the capacity to produce 31 150 t/y of nickel and 3 300 t/y of cobalt.