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With good design comes better safety, productivity and efficiency. Manufacturer Rock-Tech, from Lively, Ontario, Canada, has produced a high speed, high capacity underground boom truck that will soon be finding its way to a Redpath project in Northern Ontario. The Gen 2 series is an articulated truck that has been designed to optimise operator comfort,[…]

Mining contractor Wolff Group is the first company in Australia to use Command for dozing, a Cat® Minestar™ offering, acquired through its long term Australian Cat dealer and partner Hastings Deering, that allows a single operator to control multiple machines from a remote operator station. The group currently has six dozers running remotely in a[…]

Swick Mining Services, a leading provider of high quality underground and surface mineral drilling services has announced two contract renewals. Swick Managing Director Kent Swick said the renewals strengthened Swick’s relationship with its key customers across a number of high quality mines. “We are very pleased to have been selected as the preferred drilling contractor[…]

Petra Diamonds’ Cullinan mine is planning to gain further improvements in safety, mining efficiencies and productivity while reducing mining costs, through the recent implementation of BME’s AXXIS centralised blasting system (CBS) across the underground operation. The Centenary Cut project is rapidly ramping up production and close to steady state full production. The C-Cut supplemented by[…]

Leading global hard-rock underground mining services provider Barminco Holdings Ltd has been selected as the preferred contractor at the Mt Colin underground copper mine by owner, Round Oak Minerals Pty Ltd. Under the four-year, approximately A$95 million contract, which includes a one-year option to extend it to five years, Barminco will provide the full suite[…]

Rio Tinto Iron Ore has commenced a major sustaining capital project, spending almost $39 million (A$50 million) to replace the original stackers at the Paraburdoo mine which will create almost 100 jobs. Global advanced technology provider Tenova TAKRAF is leading the design and implementation phases of the stacker replacement and has committed to sourcing all[…]

Bear Creek Mining Corp reports that the process plant construction permit for its Corani silver-lead-zinc project has been granted by the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM). With this approval, the Corani project is now fully permitted. The permit authorizes construction of the Corani process plant, waste and tailings co-disposal facilities, water storage system[…]

Deep-South Resources has signed a licence agreement with Alexander Mining to acquire a licence for the potential use of Alexander’s proprietary leaching technologies at the Kapili Tepe (KT) polymetallic copper project in the Sivas Province in the northeast/central part of Turkey. The Agreement is conditional on Deep-South completing the acquisition of a 75% equity interest[…]

Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) is engaged in a project to convert a lead smelter in Port Klang, Malaysia, into a tin smelting plant. The company plans to test-fire the converted furnace by the end of 2018 and start smelting from the plant from the second half of 2019 when it expects to receive environmental approvals.[…]

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to provide design, engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) support services for the Candelaria Mill Optimisation Project (CMOP) at the Candelaria Mining Complex located near the city of Copiapó in northern Chile’s Atacama region. Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs will provide basic and detailed design, as well[…]