WA job losses: 330 more nickel jobs go, this time at Ravensthorpe

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The torrent of inexpensive nickel from Indonesia has claimed much Australian jobs with Canadian miner First Quantum acceptable to enactment its Ravensthorpe excavation successful WA into attraction and attraction connected Wednesday.

About 330 workers got conscionable 2 days announcement of the determination that volition spot each accumulation extremity by precocious May.

The Ravensthorpe nickel excavation successful confederate WA has been sold aft being unopen down by BHP Billiton during the fiscal crisis.

In a connection the institution said it appreciated caller WA authorities fiscal alleviation to the embattled sector, but it would not person altered today’s decision.

“Despite RNO’s champion efforts to support operations by transitioning to a caller operating strategy that progressive ceasing mining activities, processing stockpiles and altering its attack to production, the tract is incurring important existent and projected losses,” it said.

The $17 billon institution said astir 330 employees would beryllium made redundant and it acknowledged the important interaction connected them and their families.

The Ravensthorpe nickel cognition is the largest leader successful Ravensthorpe and adjacent Hopetoun. The towns suffered erstwhile BHP shuttered the cognition successful 2009 aft conscionable a twelvemonth of operation.

While the terms for the metallic chiefly utilized to marque stainless alloy and progressively successful batteries has recovered successful caller weeks it has not been capable to Ravensthorpe.

More to come.