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B2Gold’s plan to expand its Fekola gold mine, in Mali, by 1.5 Mt/y could see an up to $56 million investment in additional excavators, trucks, drills, support equipment and wheel loaders, according to the latest project economic study. The expansion study preliminary economic analysis showed the company could increase throughput to 7.5 Mt/y, from the[…]

Petropavlovsk PLC has issued a notification that IRC Ltd, a producer and developer of industrial commodities in which the company is a significant shareholder (31.1%), has today made an announcement in relation to the connection of both ends of the Amur River Bridge. According to local media, the authorities in China’s Heilongjiang province have confirmed[…]

Eurasia Mining says it has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, with an associated mine finance package, for its Monchetundra PGM-gold-copper-nickel project, in Russia. The contract with China’s Sinosteel follows ongoing discussions between the two parties, which have been taking place since issue of the mining permit for a circa-2 Moz (two platinum[…]

Mineral Commodities’ wholly-owned subsidiary, MRC Graphite, says it has executed a professional services agreement with Mondium to undertake early contractor involvement (ECI) and front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Munglinup graphite project, in Western Australia. MRC Graphite is in the final stages of completing a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for Munglinup, which will provide[…]

Velodyne Lidar says the combination of its LiDAR sensor expertise with Clearpath Robotics’ mobile robots for survey and inspection will offer customers a “value-added” service, allowing them to get maximum value from the high-resolution, 3D data these machines capture. Clearpath’s robotic solutions now use Velodyne’s state-of-the-art LiDAR technology, which, Velodyne said, boasts industry-leading resolution, range,[…]

RPMGlobal has announced that several of its enterprise software solutions will now be available with a “cloud-hosted offering”. RPM CEO and Managing Director, Richard Mathews, said moving its software solutions to the ‘cloud’ had always been a goal of the company. “However, we knew that to accomplish this we had to re-architect our suite of[…]

Dredging technology provider, Integrated Pump Rental, says its innovative SlurrySucker has resolved a process water challenge for a diamond mine in Botswana. Managing Director, Lee Vine, said attempts by the mine to desilt the main process tank using different methods of dredging had proved inadequate and the challenge of this reservoir continuously filling with slurry[…]

LKAB, one of five companies invested in the Sustainable Underground Mining project (SUM), says it is hoping to move into test mode in 2020 with a number of projects aimed at making future mines carbon dioxide-free, digitalised and autonomous. SUM has four sub-projects that are closely interconnected. In one of the sub-projects, autonomous, smart and[…]

Uptake says it and the world’s largest copper producer, Codelco, are working on an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to monitor the health of mining equipment and ensure operations run efficiently and maintenance needs are predicted. The agreement, part of Codelco’s digital transformation plan, includes mining and processing equipment at Codelco’s Division Ministro Hales (DMH) mine[…]

Master Drilling might have faced a tough macroeconomic operating environment than previously expected in 2018, but the company was able to make progress on several fronts. The company’s revenues increased 14.2% year-on-year to $138.7 million in 2018, while its headline earnings per share decreased 7.8% to $0.107. Master Drilling CEO, Danie Pretorius, said notwithstanding the[…]