Notable news includes Kamoa project’s exploration team has initiated a 25,000-m, in-fill and exploration drilling program, using up to nine drill rigs, at the Kakula discovery on the Kamoa Copper Mining Licence Area. The Kamoa project, in the DRC’s Lualaba Province is a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines and Zijin Mining. Simfer has submitted the[…]
Construction at Red Eagle Mining’s flagship project, the San Ramon gold mine, continues unabated. First gold pour is on schedule for the second half of 2016. The 100% owned 10,000 ha Santa Rosa gold project is an intrusive hosted structurally-controlled quartz stockwork system located within the prolific Antioquia Batholith near the town of Santa Rosa[…]
Lithium has been dominating project news for some weeks now and the latest big announcement is that Galaxy Resources and General Mining have agreed to a A$216 million merger to consolidate their lithium operations. Highlights of the merger Creation of a leading diversified global lithium company with a large wholly-owned portfolio of hard rock and[…]
EcoPhos, an innovative provider of technological solutions for the global phosphate market, has awarded Veolia Water Technologies, Inc a contract to supply two state-of-the-art HPD® evaporation and crystallisation systems. Veolia’s HPD® systems will be an essential part of a new fertiliser production facility in Egypt which EcoPhos is providing to its end-customer Evergrow. The HPD[…]
In May 2016, the international technology service provider DMT officially became a member of the United Nations Task Force for the Application of the UN Resource Classification Code UNFC-2009 to Nuclear Fuel Resources. DMT is hereby reinforcing its activities related to the life cycle of nuclear resources. The Task Force is part of the UN[…]
Nautilus Minerals Inc has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd (TOML), has upgraded its Mineral Resource estimate for its polymetallic nodule project to include portions in the Inferred, Indicated and Measured categories. This follows on from the successful completion of exploration campaigns in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) in the Central[…]
Terex Corporation has agreed with Konecranes to mutually terminate a Business Combination Agreement (BCA) the companies entered into on August 10, 2015, without payment of a fee by either party. In connection with the termination of the BCA, Terex has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Material Handling and Port Solutions business (MHPS) to[…]
Tenova, one of the world’s major suppliers of technologies, advanced engineering products and services for the mining and metallurgical industries, is moving its main headquarters to Castellanza (Varese), to a new and modern corporate campus. The Tenova Campus extends over a surface of approximately 100,000 m2 and will host over 400 employees. It was designed[…]
Environmental and resource management services are increasing in demand for an ever growing population, with deteriorating infrastructure and loss of essential skills in maintenance, as well as management. There is a massive demand for skills development in the water industry, not only in education and social understanding about the natural resources, but also in maintenance[…]
Honeywell UOP has broken ground on a new manufacturing capacity outside Shanghai to produce materials used to convert methanol from coal into feed stocks for making plastics, a significant milestone to enable China to meet the growing demand for plastics. When it enters production in 2017, the catalyst production line in Zhangjiagang City in Jiangsu[…]