Excellon Resources reports dry mining conditions and the completion of its mine optimization plan at the company’s Platosa mine in Durango, Mexico. All current production headings at Platosa are dry, with ramp up in production rates underway and high-grade headings accessed in the Rodilla and Guadalupe South Mantos Completed installation of dewatering infrastructure Achieved targeted[…]
The 30-year history of Robit has only seen one thing constant – the ever-increasing need for the connection between hammer and rock to endure more severe forces. In recent years, top hammer performance development has not only been linear but exponential, as maximum impact powers in eg tunnelling and drifting applications rise above 40 kW[…]
Michelin Earthmover has announced the next generation of rigid dump truck (RDT) tyres with the introduction of MICHELIN® X®TRA LOAD GRIP and the MICHELIN® X®TRA LOAD PROTECT. Hailed as the first-ever “3-star” 24.00R35 tyre size on the market, the new MICHELIN XTRA LOAD range will allow users to increase load capacity or accommodate faster speeds[…]
Eriez Europe will be showcasing the latest solutions in metal detection and removal for the mining and quarry industries at the Steinexpo show in Homberg, Germany from August 30 to September 2. Set in Europe’s biggest basalt quarry, visitors to the Eriez stand will have the first exclusive look at a new compact suspended permanent[…]
PNX Metals Ltd has completed a PFS for its Hayes Creek zinc-gold-silver project, located 170 km south of Darwin in the Pine Creek region of the Northern Territory, Australia. The PFS confirms the project to be a high value, relatively low risk and technically strong development opportunity for the company. Given these outcomes, the PNX[…]
South Africa´s Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane (MP) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with his Chilean counterpart, Ms Aurora Elvira Williams, on cooperation in the mining and minerals field. The MoU, which was signed in Santiago during the LatAm Mining Cumbre, commits the two countries to cooperation in areas including the following: Mineral[…]
A 2.6 billion-year-old rock has made a journey of almost 14,000 km from Australia’s Pilbara region to London and will go on display at a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum (NHM), opened by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. The colourfully layered 2.5 t rock, a piece of banded iron formation (BIF), was chosen[…]
On July 7 the Victorian Government released its Statement on Future Uses of Brown Coal, a much-anticipated policy statement that provides guidance to existing and future users of the state’s worldclass lignite resource. The Victorian policy statement follows the receipt by the Federal Government of the Independent Review into the Future Security of the National[…]
Berkeley Energia has achieved a key milestone in the construction of the Salamanca mine, following the delivery of the primary crusher to site. The 400 t/h crusher was manufactured by Sandvik Group in Finland, one of the world’s leading suppliers and was one of the long lead items included in the use of proceeds from[…]
As the junior mining sector comes back into play – and on the back of the success of the 2017 Mining Indaba which, the organiser says, “saw more junior miners in attendance than any other event in Cape Town” – the organiser of the Investing in African Mining Indaba® is taking its commitment to the[…]