VVC Exploration Corp is currently working to bring its flagship Samalayuca copper property in Chihuahua, Mexico to production. The NI 43-101 for the property was completed by Dr. Michel Boliy in 2013 represents an Inferred Mineral resource of 4.1 Mt of copper ore grading 0.47% Cu and 5.8 g/t Ag. “Pilot mines work well if[…]
MinerAndina reports: “In five years we can be the largest provider of a strategic resource such as lithium in the whole world”, said Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina, supporting responsible mining in northern Argentina, highlighting the importance of lithium mining. Currently Argentina contributes around 40,000 t/y of the metal, which is 16% of the world’s[…]
Invicta, Lupaka Gold’s 100% owned flagship project is an advanced stage gold-copper polymetallic underground deposit located approximately 120 km north of Lima. Over $15 million of capital has been spent by previous owners on development and infrastructure at Invicta, and management expects to commence potential production in the second half of 2018 by using third-party[…]
Global engineering firm, DRA, has secured a contract with Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga (Pty) Ltd a subsidiary of JSE listed Exxaro Resources Ltd, to construct a 500 t/h coal handling and preparation plant in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The coal handling and preparation plant consists of primary and secondary sizing stations, overland conveyor, two 7500t silos, low[…]
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc has been selected by Anglo American to provide engineering services to the company’s Los Bronces copper mine, located approximately 40 miles northeast of Santiago, Chile, in the Metropolitan Region. Situated at an altitude of over 11,000 ft, Los Bronces is one of the world’s largest copper mines. Under the terms of[…]
Metso has sold one hydrocyclone cluster with three MHCTM 250 hydrocyclones and a VTM 500 Vertimill® grinding mill to Agnico Eagle for its Meliadine gold project in Nunavut Territory, northern Canada. The Meliadine property covers more than 80 km (approximately 50 miles) of a greenstone belt, and is under development as an underground and open pit[…]
INTERMAT, the international trade show for construction and infrastructure, recently announced the winners of the INTERMAT Innovation Awards on Thursday 18 January in Paris (Maison de la Mutualité). In its role as a springboard for worldwide innovation in the building and public works sector, the competition designated 13 prize winners from the 90 competing entries.[…]
Technology company Continental is introducing two additional EM-Master E4/L4 radial tyre sizes to the market. “This for now completes our range of radial tyres for use on wheel loaders and dump trucks in particular for construction work and mining,” says Christian Luther, Product Line Manager Earthmoving at Continental Commercial Specialty Tires (CST). “We are also[…]
During the last six months, Metso has received orders to install over 50 flotation cells in Spain and Portugal, ranging from small 15 m³ units to large 300 m³ cells. Metso will deliver flotation equipment to expansion projects by Almina, Somincor and other leading mining companies located on the Iberian Pyrite Belt as well as[…]
The Bolivian state-owned smelter, Empresa Metalúrgica Vinto, has revealed that refined tin production fell by 3.1% year-on-year to 12,637 t in 2017, although revenues increased by 11% to some $255 million, according to local sources. ITRI believes that the small decline in production last year “was likely a result of disruption related to a month-long[…]