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New data collected from the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is set to open up undercover exploration in the Gawler Craton. The Gawler Craton Airborne Survey has been designed to capture approximately 1.8 million line kilometres of new magnetic, radiometric and digital elevation geophysical data[…]

Toronto- and New York-listed miner Yamana Gold is celebrating 15 years as a public entity today. On this day in 2003, the company was taken public with an initial portfolio including the Chapada project in Brazil, which it subsequently developed and brought into production in 2007 (pictured). Yamana has, over the years, grown through phases[…]

Caterpillar has delivered its 50,000th articulated truck from the Peterlee manufacturing facility in the UK. Trader Construction Company of North Carolina, US, received the unit during a ceremony recently held at the facility. Carl Huddle, president of Trader, and Gregory Poole Cat dealer representatives were on hand to receive keys to Trader’s newest Cat 745,[…]

Weir Minerals clocked a solid performance in the first half of 2018 and was ably supported by strong demand for new equipment and aftermarket services from its Minerals division. The company’s orders from continuing operations (minus its Flow Control division) were up 20% year-on-year in the six month period at £1.17 billion, while operating profit[…]

One of the key factors affecting the operation of mines in Sub-Saharan Africa is the availability of a reliable, uninterrupted supply of power. However, Sub-Saharan Africa has a severe power deficit which means that mines are often not guaranteed to receive a reliable supply from the national power utility. As a case in point, when[…]

Contractor MACA is to carry out drilling, blasting, loading and hauling at Regis Resources’ Duketon South operations near Laverton in Western Australia for, at least, another five years. The two companies have extended the open-pit mining services contract as Regis has opened up multiple pits and sites for mining. This will now see MACA mine[…]

These are busy times for India’s state-owned iron ore miner NMDC. In the Chitoor district of Andhra Pradesh the company bid against other major miners such as Vedanta, Adani, Ramgadh and Rungta for a mining licence area of 263.01 ha in the Chigargunta-Bisanatham gold block which NMDC Joint General Manager for Mechanical Engineering GSSV Suresh[…]

Alliance Aviation Services will continue to fly workers in and out of St Barbara’s Leonora gold operations in Western Australia after the two companies agreed to extend the air charter services contract for another three years. Alliance has been providing these fly in/fly out services to St Barbara since 2012 and will continue to arrange[…]

GroundProbe has been recognised as the most innovative company in Australia and New Zealand, taking out the number 1 spot on the Australian Financial Review’s List of Most Innovative Companies for 2018. The honour was announced last night at the 2018 AFR Most Innovative Companies List Awards Night. The list was comprised of the Top[…]

Dr. Malcolm Scoble is a Professor at the University of British Columbia specialising in surface and underground mine design and planning: mine-mill integration: occupational health and safety: sustainable mining and mining with communities. He is nominated as much for all the mining engineers he has inspired over the decades as for his own many achievements.[…]