The latest issue of International Mining Project News, out today, has reports on 16 prefeasibility studies, four feasibility studies, and 13 projects in development, two existing operations that are expanding, and four projects that have gone into production as well as many new appointments to new positions. The report covers 15 gold projects, six copper projects, three vanadium and rare earth projects, two phosphate, uranium and iron ore, and one diamond, silver and manganese projects. This fortnightly project watch is a great way of keeping up to date with your peers – other mining companies, other consultants or other engineering companies. These issues build into a global mine project overview. If you are a supplier – it is full of potential sales leads.
YTC Resources recently placed an order with Gekko Systems to design, build, install and commission a robust polymetallic plant to recover gold, silver, lead and zinc. YTC’s Hera gold-base metal deposit is situated some 100 km southeast of Cobar and is hosted in Cobar Basin rocks. The region also boasts the mineral deposits at CSA, Peak Gold Mines and Endeavor.
Southern Copper Corp (SCC), the largest copper producer in Peru and Mexico, has presented a new EIS to the Peruvian government for its $1 billion Tía María copper project, BNamericas reports. The company submitted the new study to Peru’s energy and mining ministry (MEM) after holding two public workshops with local communities last month.
Maya Gold & Silver has announced that it has filed on SEDAR today the PFS for its Zgounder Silver Mine in Morocco. The results from the PFS demonstrate the economic viability of the Zgounder Mine based on the mineral reserves derived from resources that were outlined by GoldMinds Geoservices Inc. The PFS highlighted that a significant amount of inferred resources are present which have the potential to be converted to reserves with additional drilling, and there remains an excellent exploration potential to further expand the size of the existing mineral inventory.
Intra Energy Corp (IEC) has announced that it has completed a maiden JORC Resource Estimate for the Kopakopa project within the North Rukuru EPL376/2013 tenement in northern Malawi. Total coal resources are now reported at 23.9 Mt comprising 3.5 Mt Measured, 4.9 Mt Indicated and 15.4 Mt Inferred category coal.