DeGrussa is located about 900 km north of Perth and 150 km north of the mining center of Meekatharra. The project will be developed as an integrated open- pit and underground mining operation, with a conventional copper processing facility and supporting infrastructure located on site. Pre-production capital, including contingencies, is estimated at A$270 million for plant and infrastructure and A$130 million for open-pit and underground development.

The first two years of open-pit mining will extract 151,000 mt of direct shipping ore, grading 25.6% copper and 2.6 g/mt gold, along with 3.58 million mt of oxide copper resource grading 1.2% copper and 0.5 g/mt gold. Chalcocite and massive sulphide material from the pit will be stockpiled.

A long-term underground mine will be undertaken using long-hole open stoping (both transverse and longitudinal), with minor areas of jumbo cut and fill or up-hole benching in some of the narrower areas. Open stopes will be up to 50 m high by 25 m long by the orebody width (up to 40 m but averaging 20 m), with the proposed mining sequence aiming for maximum extraction of the resource using paste fill.

The concentrator flowsheet includes conventional crushing, milling, and classification circuits, followed by conventional flotation, de-watering, and filtration. Concentrate production is expected to average 220,000 to 240,000 mt/y grading 27% copper and will be transported by road to Port Hedland for export to international customers. Payable metal contained in concentrate will total about 60,000 to 70,000 mt/y copper and 40,000 to 45,000 oz/y gold.