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New high-grade gold and silver bearing veins have been discovered by Australian gold miner, Southern Gold Ltd as a result of a significant work program over the southern portion of the historic Weolyu silver mine southeast of the capital Seoul, in central South Korea. Significant new work by Australia’s Southern Gold on historic Weolyu silver[…]

The Australian Securities Exchange has advised Kingsrose Mining that trading in its securities has resumed. The resumption of trading follows the successful restructure of Kingsrose’s finances, including a period of Administration which saw creditors paid 100 cents in the dollar. The company is debt-free after recently repaying the remaining A$4.4 million of unsecured debt, with[…]

Roskill reports that Australian Triton Minerals has completed a DFS for its Ancuabe graphite project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The project is planned to include a 60,000 t/y processing plant and could operate for 27 years. Construction could begin in the first half of 2018 with production of concentrate by the second half of 2019,[…]

Greg Evans, Executive Director – Coal, Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) says “growth in key Asian markets for high-quality Australian coal will continue to underpin our coal exports with increasing demand forecast over the medium term, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).” The IEA’s Coal 2017 Report – which predicts[…]

Perrone Robotics (PRI) has a new agreement with Liebherr to support autonomous development for Liebherr mining trucks. PRI is currently working with Liebherr’s Mining Group in Newport News to integrate PRI’s MAX™ platform into their autonomy kit.  MAX will support certain functionality within Liebherr’s autonomy kit enabling the truck to perform autonomous haulage at mining[…]

A.I.S. Resources Ltd has completed the mass balance chemistry and process engineering that will be used to determine the raw materials used to purify the lithium brines from its Guayatayoc project in northern Argentina. This process engineering information will be used in the design, engineering, and construction of an 8-10,000 t lithium carbonate plant. The[…]

Kalle Kuusento, CEO says industry growth led to a busy year for Doofor in 2017. “The mining and construction industry has invigorated, and we have been happy to witness our customer’s success in their business. This year Doofor has delivered remarkably more rock drills than a year before. Therefore, our business revenue increased +30%. We[…]

Zimbabwe Alloys (ZimAlloys) has approved a $100 million investment deal with Balasore Alloys Group, an Indian ferroalloys producer. The investment will settle ZimAlloys’ $50 million debt and work towards refurbishing and restarting the blast furnaces within the next 18 months. Roskill View: “Zimbabwe Alloys, formerly part of Anglo American, was Zimbabwe’s second largest ferrochrome producer[…]

A matchbox-sized circuit board with a short aerial could save lives by transmitting the vital statistics and location of miners missing underground. This fledgeling wireless sensor network technology is the result of collaboration between the Wits Mining Institute, the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Wits, and the Communication Networks Laboratory at the University[…]

Hexagon Mining today releases an improved version of its mine scheduling tool, which addresses the challenge of sequencing and modeling waste dumps with multiple access roads. MineSight Schedule Optimizer (MSSO) is used by hundreds of mines worldwide to determine the most productive cut mining sequence to achieve the highest project profitability. MSSO Version 11, released[…]