Archives: Base metals

In its 2021 guidance and three year outlook, just released, Centerra Gold outlines the near future for its flagship operations, including developments and production predictions for the next few years at Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan and the Mount Milligan copper-gold mine in BC, Canada. Looking first at Kumtor, operated by Kumtor Gold Company (KGC),[…]

At the end of 2020, Chile’s Minera Centinela, part of Antofagasta PLC, approved the implementation of autonomous haulage at the Esperanza Sur open pit copper operation, with which it will target high utilisation and average speeds. The company said at the time, “we are targeting specific performance improvements to come from these changes.” The company[…]

Glencore’s Compania Minera Lomas Bayas (CMLB) copper mine is located some 120 km NE of Antofagasta, Chile and extracts low grade oxide copper ore. A major focus currently is to increase productivity and reduce operational costs, as well as focussing on safety and sustainability. As such, the mine recently implemented its new Ultra Class Project[…]

MineSense Technologies says the use of its ore characterisation and sorting technology is seeing improvements in both the ore from waste recovery and ore dilution at Copper Mountain Mining Corp’s namesake mine in British Columbia, Canada. Having deployed the company’s ShovelSense solution on two shovels and a wheel loader in 2020, Copper Mountain now has[…]

As part of New Gold’s climate action plan, New Afton block cave gold and copper mine west of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada continues to explore options to reduce energy use on site. In 2020, New Afton was able to achieve a reduction in fossil fuel consumption and recently purchased an electric boom truck, two[…]

Minerva Intelligence says its Cognitive artificial intelligence-powered prospect generation software, TARGET, has helped Giga Metals identify and evaluate new prospective exploration targets at the Parnaiba Basin project in Nordeste, Brazil. Giga, after validating the results produced by Minerva’s TARGET software, made the decision to acquire exploration permits covering significant new regional sediment-hosted copper anomalies along[…]

Brazilian Nickel PLC, the privately held UK company developing its nickel laterite heap leach project in Brazil, has announced the commencement of its Bankable Feasibility Study for the company’s 100% owned Piauí Nickel Project. The BFS is the next stage in the development of PNP which will produce an average of 25,000 t of nickel[…]

Abra Mining Pty Ltd, the joint venture company behind the Abra base metals project, has executed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Contract Power Australia that could see the construction and operation of a hybrid power generation facility made up of a natural gas and solar energy array at the Western Australia project. Announcing the[…]

In its just released Climate Change Report 2020, Rio Tinto outlines in some depth its strategies and pathways to achieve a low carbon future across all its operations aligned with the Paris Agreement, both to its initial 2030 targets to reduce absolute emissions by 15% and emissions intensity by 30% relative to its 2018 baseline,[…]

In the earning conference call for Q4 2020, Don Strickland, Copper Mountain Mining Corp COO, and Gil Clausen, President and CEO, outlined in some more details on its trolley assist vision, plans and progress to date. Strickland comments: “We are targeting to start commissioning our Trolley Assist trial in late 2021. Our objective is to[…]