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Peabody Energy’s newest longwall at the North Goonyella mine in Queensland, Australia, has started up and will soon benefit from automated steering and the requirement for less maintenance, according to Peabody’s Australia President George Schuller. The North Goonyella South project will extend the mine’s life to at least 2026, mining around 71 million short tons[…]

The stage two ore sorting campaign on drill core from Middle Island Resources’ Two Mile Hill tonalite gold deposit in Western Australia has confirmed the technology’s potential to improve gold grades and cut waste processing. Two Mile Hill, part of the wider Sandstone gold project, comprises a “ubiquitously gold mineralised, tonalite (granite) plug or stock”.[…]

WesTrac, one of Australia’s leading Caterpillar dealers, has responded to rising demand for ultra-class haul trucks out of Western Australia by ordering four Cat 794 ACs to its Reid Road assembly facility. The trucks, which arrived recently, offer improved safety features, serviceability and performance over its competitors in this class of off-highway truck, WesTrac said.[…]

A visit to tin operations in the Inner Mongolia region of China by ITA staff at the end of May 2018 has revealed that mine production in the province may reach 17,400 t/y in the next five years, up from 6,500 t in 2017. Inner Mongolia is currently the fourth-largest tin mining province of China,[…]

Developers of one of the world’s largest graphite deposits say the project does not face the high up-front minimum capital raisings of $100 million-plus typical for getting new industrial mines off the ground but can be into profitable production sooner and at much lower cost. Addressing the first day today of the two day Paydirt[…]

The Alumbrera copper-gold mine in Argentina will soon be going underground and, with this, will come the installation of an electric Rail-Veyor haulage system, Goldcorp has confirmed. Open-pit operations are due to cease at the end of this month, but during the most recent June quarter, the project partners (Glencore – 50%, Goldcorp – 37.5%,[…]

Based on further positive drill results, Barrick has upgraded the Fourmile exploration project from a target to a discovery. Located approximately 2 km north of Goldrush in Nevada, drilling continues to intersect high grade results, confirming the continuity of mineralisation in the project area, “and increasing our confidence that Fourmile and Goldrush form part of[…]

Mining software, hardware and services provider Maptek says updates to its Eureka 5 and Workbench platforms will deliver enhanced modelling, correlation and mapping tools for users. Maptek Vulcan and Eureka users have been operating on the Maptek Workbench for just over a year. This has seen tool bars, menus, command lists and shortcut keys created[…]

For his massive contribution to the large-scale commercialisation of solvent extraction of copper, in Zambia and worldwide, Jack Anthony Holmes, formerly Technical Director of Anglo American Corp (AAC), has been nominated by Ken Severs (formerly Group Metallurgical Executive, Rio Tinto) and Les Stewart (formerly Technical Director, Anglo American Corp, South America). In 1970, Holmes, after[…]

The Australian Government has poured more cash into mining equipment, technology and services (METS) companies, this time choosing four firms in Queensland looking to solve challenges. The funds, issued by METS Ignited, form part of the Bowen Basin Cluster Programme, a joint initiative with the Queensland Government that brings together METS companies in the region[…]