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Vysarn’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Pentium Hydro, has confirmed another major mining contract, this time with the AngloGold Ashanti and Independence Group joint venture Tropicana gold mine in Western Australia. Pentium, which was only acquired from Ausdrill last month, is to provide dual rotary drilling and waterwell construction services at the mine. Earlier this month, Pentium announced[…]

AusGroup’s MAS Australasia subsidiary has been awarded a five year contract to carry out maintenance at Newmont Goldcorp’s Boddington gold mine in Western Australia. MAS will use the existing local presence and infrastructure it has in the southwest Of Western Australia and provide specialist mechanical, scaffolding and rope access maintenance services to the mine, AusGroup[…]

Premier Gold Mines says processing of ore has commenced from the El Nino gold mine at the joint venture South Arturo mine, in Nevada, USA. South Arturo is located in the Carlin Trend, and is a joint venture between Premier (40%) and Nevada Gold Mines (60%), a joint venture company owned by Barrick Gold and[…]

The Zeppelin Group is advancing its cooperation with Caterpillar. Zeppelin is set to take over the distribution and service of Cat construction equipment and special equipment for surface and underground mining in Sweden and Denmark (including Greenland). The portfolio also includes drive, propulsion, traction, and energy systems, as well as machine and equipment rental. The[…]

The Coalition for Energy Efficient Comminution (CEEC) is looking to build on the industry success it has had with its free Energy Curves tool with the development of a global Water Curves tool. In its efforts to develop this, around 40 leaders from the mining, METS, research and support services world came together in Vancouver,[…]

The 26th edition of the Investing in African Mining Indaba is to focus on investment in the digital economy of mining, according to the conference’s new Head of Content. Tom Quinn says the event, run over four days starting from February 3, will build on the success of the 2019 Mining Indaba in terms of[…]

Byrnecut has partnered with Immersive Technologies to develop a “world-class” technical training centre in Perth, Western Australia. The mining contractor is set to achieve measurable in-field cost reductions, productivity gains and safety improvements via changes in equipment operator behaviour due to 350 staff coming through the centre in the past nine months of operation, Immersive[…]

PT Anggun Makmur Energy (PT AME) is to supply steam coal to power plants in Vietnam as part of an offtake agreement agreed with Commodities Intelligence Centre (CIC) on behalf of its trading platform registered users. The total contract value is $8.5 million, with the first coal shipment produced by “clean coal technologies” commencing in[…]

TERRATEC has celebrated the successful completion of a 300 m deep, 4.1 m diameter ventilation shaft at the Continental Gold-owned Buriticá gold project, in Colombia. Peruvian mining contractor INCIMMET deployed a custom-built TR2000 Raise Boring Machine (RBM) to excavate the shaft in what TERRATEC said were challenging ground conditions. This put the machine through its[…]

Marathon Gold has appointed Ausenco Engineering Canada as the lead consultant for the prefeasibility study (PFS) on the Valentine gold project in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As lead consultant in the PFS, Ausenco will undertake a tradeoff study designed to assess the optimum scope, value, and execution strategy for the project, and will incorporate an[…]