Strike Resources Limited announced that the WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) has granted a second Works Approval under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 for offshore marine operations, principally related to the Category 58 bulk loading of up to 1.8 Mtpa (10,000 tonnes per day) of iron ore from a Transhipment Vessel to Ocean Going Vessels in a designated offshore anchorage area ~14 nautical miles from the Port of Ashburton in Onslow. Strike received an earlier (landside) Works Approval from DWER in July 2022 to undertake Category 58 bulk loading and unloading of up to 1.8 Mtpa (10,000 tonnes per day) of iron ore from the Port of Ashburton. The securing of these key regulatory Works Approvals in respect of the Port of Ashburton now complete all DWER approvals required for the commencement of export operations from the Port of Ashburton and are important steps in the Stage 2 development plans of Strike, which involve the export of up to 1.8 Mtpa of iron ore from its Paulsens East Iron Ore Project.

Strike is undertaking its Paulsens East Stage 2 Development, which will involve conventional open pit mining of the Paulsens East hematite ridge, ramping up to an annualised production rate of up to ~1.8 Mtpa, with road train haulage to and export (via transhipment operations) through the Port of Ashburton near Onslow.