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Northern Minerals has become the first heavy rare earth producer outside of China after starting up a pilot plant at its Browns Range project in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. The official opening of the plant, attended by various Western Australia ministers, comes a year to the day since construction commenced. Browns Range’s[…]

PepinNini Lithium Ltd reports an initial lithium (Li) and potassium (K) resource statement for its Pular lithium brine project in the Salta province of Argentina. The maiden JORC 2012 resource statement, for the Pular project follows the announcement last month of the initial JORC resource for PepinNini’s Rincon lithium brine project – also in Argentina’s[…]

ASX-listed tin exploration and development company, Kasbah Resources, has published details of a new DFS and Ore Reserve upgrade for its 75%-owned Achmmach tin project in Morocco. The new DFS envisages a 10-year underground tin operation extracting and processing 750,000 t/y of tin ore. With average head grades of 0.82% Sn and improved tin recoveries[…]

Almonty Industries reports that the ore sorting equipment has arrived at its Panasqueira mine in Portugal. The equipment was released by customs last week and now the entire installation has arrived at the mine. This installation is being assembled under an agreement with Cronimet of South Africa. It will allow additional reclamation of the coarse[…]

Owner Resource Group (ORG) has acquired K-Tec Earthmovers, an industry leading manufacturer of pull-pan earthmoving scrapers and accessories for mining and other end-markets. Austin-based ORG partnered with the owners and management of K-Tec to acquire a majority stake of the company. Founded in 2000, K-Tec has grown to be an industry leader with a reputation[…]

Barrick is constructing a third shaft at Turquoise Ridge (owned 75%, Newmont holds 25%), which will allow the mine to roughly double annual production to more than 500,000 oz per year (100% basis), at an average cost of sales of around $720 per ounce, and average all-in sustaining costs of roughly $630 per ounce. Thyssen Mining,[…]

In its Q2 2018 results just announced Teck states that at Highland Valley Copper in British Columbia “an autonomous haulage pilot is on track to have six trucks operational by the end of the year and after a successful trial of shovel-based ore sorting technology over the last six months, we are now planning to[…]

While autonomy has started to catch on in Western Australia’s iron ore sector, coal miners on the eastern side of the country have been slow to adopt such technologies. Research firm Wood Mackenzie thinks that could change with a number of new, large projects starting to come online after 2025. The reasons East Coast coal[…]

Newmont Mining Corp has come to agreements to acquire a 50% interest in the Galore Creek Partnership (GCP) from NOVAGOLD Resources, and to form a partnership with Teck Resources, who owns the remaining stake. Galore Creek, located in British Columbia, Canada, is one of the largest undeveloped copper-gold projects with resources previously reported by Teck[…]

In what was a strong June quarter in terms of iron ore production, Fortescue Metals Group gave an update on its autonomous haulage (AHS) project at the Chichester Hub operations and the installation of a relocatable conveyor at Cloudbreak. The company shipped 46.5 million tonnes of ore from its Pilbara operations during the quarter, up[…]