In August 2017, American Industrial Partners, the equity firm which owns global grinding media giant Moly-Cop, announced a definitive agreement by Valmont to sell its Australian mining consumables business Donhad to Moly-Cop. This is only now going through after The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) cleared the deal. Donhad owner Valmont said in its[…]
GR Engineering Services Ltd has been appointed as preferred tenderer by Capricorn Metals in relation to the design and construction of a 3 Mt/y carbon-in-leach (CIL) mineral processing plant and associated infrastructure for the Karlawinda gold project, located near Newman in Western Australia. Under a letter of intent provided by Capricorn, GR Engineering has been[…]
Image Resources NL recently announced the execution of a binding Heads of Agreement with Sunrise Energy Group Pty Ltd for the supply and construction of a 3-4 MW AC solar farm to be built next to the company’s high-grade, zircon-rich Boonanarring mineral sands project located 80 km north of Perth, which is currently under construction[…]
Macmahon Holdings recently advised it has commenced Phase 2 of the Batu Hijau mining contact in Indonesia. Macmahon has been operating under a cost-plus arrangement (Phase 1) since the start of the contract last year. The progression to Phase 2 marks the commencement of the gain share/pain share mechanism in the mining contract, whereby any[…]
Digitalisation transformation company Proudfoot states: “When you are ramping up a $5.6 billion mining site investment, you need an operational insurance policy.” Rio Tinto invited Proudfoot to be that insurance policy by co-creating an innovative integrated-planning process (IPP) for its Oyu Tolgoi (OT) mine. Rio Tinto management saw in Proudfoot a consulting partner to help[…]
Fugro is commencing its first project supporting deep sea polymetallic nodule mining under a contract awarded by seafloor mineral exploration company Nauru Ocean Resources Inc (NORI), a subsidiary of DeepGreen Metals Inc. In the deep waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, its specialist marine geoscience team will perform detailed site characterisation surveys. The project, which[…]
Newtrax Technologies Inc, one of the leading providers of IoT solutions for underground hard rock mines – has been selected by Gold Fields to provide a mine-wide Tracking and Proximity Detection system at the Invincible underground mine at its St Ives operations. Located near Lake Lefroy in the prolific gold-producing Eastern Goldfields region of Western[…]
MacLean has now applied its battery electric expertise in mining to underground graders. “We didn’t do graders, that is, until we launched our EV Series of long battery life, regenerative braking mining vehicles, and amassed over a year’s worth of underground work, some 3,000 hours across the MacLean battery electric fleet. Then it became clear[…]
Toro Energy announces it will advance to the next stage of the Beneficiation and Process Design studies for the company’s 100% owned Wiluna Uranium Project in Western Australia following the success of the testing so far in confirming opportunities to substantially reduce the capital and operating costs of the processing facility. The key outcome of[…]
MAXAM, a global technology leader specialised in the design, development, manufacture and application of energetic materials, will present its blasting solutions at Expomin, which is being held in Santiago de Chile from 23 to 27 April. “The company will once again attend the most important industry event in Latin America, a region in which it[…]