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Geosoft co-founder Ian MacLeod is the proud recipient of the Cecil Green Enterprise Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). MacLeod and other award recipients were honoured on Tuesday, September 2h, 2017, at the SEG International Exposition and 87th Annual Meeting in Houston. The Cecil Green Enterprise Award recognizes the importance of enterprise to[…]

B2Gold Corp made the first gold pour at the Fekola gold mine on October 7, 2017, some three months ahead of schedule. Commissioning of the mill is ongoing and commercial production is expected by the end of 2017. In the fourth quarter of 2017 the company is projecting gold production from Fekola of between 50,000[…]

Michelin has announced the latest generation of connected tyre management systems for the mining industry – MEMS®4. Communicating tyres are not new, but MEMS 4 adds real-time GPS and accelerometer data to transform its current TPMS offer into a complete monitoring and reporting platform for tyres, trucks, mine haulage and vehicle cycle analysis. The new[…]

The nonferrous mining exploration sector has shrugged off its recent protracted downturn, with analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence showing a rise in exploration budgets of more than 14% year over year to $7.95 billion in 2017 — the first increase in the annual global nonferrous exploration budget since 2012. Key highlights 2017 global nonferrous[…]

As a global technology leader that provides advanced hardware and software solutions to the mining industry, GroundProbe says it is “excited to announce the release of our first solution developed specifically for underground geotechnical convergence monitoring, the GML-Underground.” GroundProbe officially launched the Geotech Monitoring LiDAR (GML-Underground) at their exhibition booth at the inaugural International Conference[…]

Boart Longyear, the leading provider of drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling, has launched My Drill Store, a new website for ordering drilling tools and parts online. Providing an intuitive online shopping experience, customers can now easily place orders, check local availability, and find detailed information and pictures of a comprehensive selection of quality[…]

Caterpillar recently completed an agreement to supply a complete Cat® longwall system to Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), a subsidiary of India’s largest coal producer, Coal India Limited. The system will be delivered to the Moonidih mine in early 2019. The longwall production goal of the Moonidih XV Seam project is about 2.5 Mt of[…]

Roy Hill’s multi-billion-dollar iron ore project is now home to what is thought to be the first dynamic multiple Geofence package to have been successfully interfaced to fixed and mobile asset elements; in this case within the boundaries of the Coarse Ore Stockpile (COS) at Roy Hill. The Geofence technology was successfully and safely interfaced[…]

The copper sulphide processing flowsheet has remained virtually untouched for decades and follows a logical progression – crush, grind, float, regrind and refloat to produce a final copper concentrate. This well-defined and proven method of copper sulphide processing has served the industry well for over a century and is based on the particle size range[…]

Peru’s ProInversión has issued the International Public Tender to promote private investment in the Copper Deposits of Michiquillay project. According to the rules of the tender, the approved schedule states that the presentation of the economic offer and the award would be on November 15 of this year. Among the stipulated requirements, bidders must prove[…]