South32 scraps manganese guidance, Groote Eylandt faces power crisis
South32 has withdrawn its Australian manganese production guidance and is scrambling to conserve fuel supplies on Groote Eylandt after a pipeline destroyed by Cyclone Megan on the weekend left the entire community close to running out of power.
The Groote Eylandt port and Northern Territory’s largest mining project of its kind is 630 kilometres east of Darwin and supplies 10 to 15 per cent of the world’s manganese worth $1.53 billion to the miner in the 2023 financial year.
This story was updated to reflect that as a result of measures imposed to conserve fuel supply, South32 estimates 60 days of supply at forecast usage.
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