Archives: Base metals

Compania Minera Sierra Gorda SCM (KGHM 55%; South32 45%) has announced that it has started to operate from this month with 100% renewable energy. This achievement is part of the company’s sustainability objectives and represents the removal of the emission of around 1 Mt of CO2 per year. The presentation of this important news took[…]

Steering digital transformation with technological intervention in mining operation, India’s Tata Steel Mining Ltd (TSML) has launched its ‘e-Log’ app – which it describes as a complete solution to all kinds of logistical needs in mining operations. The single integrated logistics platform will digitise processes and give real time data with actionable insights plus capture[…]

The Newcrest Mining Board has approved the Lihir Phase 14A feasibility study, endorsing the Papua New Guinea project into full implementation. As part of the study, site investigation and trial works have been completed and a plan has been developed which extends the Phase 14 cutback and safely steepens the walls of the pit using[…]

The scale of the second edition of the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh in January 2023 showed that there is huge potential for mining in Saudi Arabia – and therefore it represents a major growth market for the big mining equipment and technology OEMs. IM Editorial Director Paul Moore recently met up with Mansoor Eskandanian,[…]

The Kamoa-Kakula copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will continue to enjoy high-speed satellite-based connectivity services as part of a new agreement between Ivanhoe Mines and SES, SES says. The enhanced partnership builds on an existing five-year relationship between SES and Ivanhoe Mines and comes at a time of significant investment in[…]

New Gold has ordered four more Sandvik LH518B battery-electric loaders for its New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia. The new battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) will join the first-ever Sandvik LH518B, which New Afton trialled in late 2020 before purchasing in February 2021, and two Sandvik Z50 BEV trucks also operating at the mine. Located approximately[…]

FLSmidth has been selected to supply its ninth high performance semi-mobile crushing plant in a row to leading copper miner First Quantum Minerals. This new crushing plant will increase production and efficiency, contributing to the customer’s expansion plans in Africa. Following the successful commissioning of a semi-mobile crushing plant in early 2022, which is the[…]

Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering and one of the largest environmental services firms in Canada, says it has assisted Generation PGM Inc and its Marathon palladium-copper project in becoming the first mine in Ontario’s history to obtain environmental approval following a Joint Review Panel. The project, a platinum group metals (PGM)[…]

With the aim of advancing towards increasingly sustainable mining with cleaner energy, Caserones, a copper mine in Chile operated by SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile, and indirectly 100% owned by JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation of Japan, has signed an agreement with the Swiss company Retrofitting to Zero (RTZ) to carry out an engineering[…]

FLSmidth’s Capital Markets Day on January 18, 2023 marked the culmination of a major portfolio review that really ramped up on the completion of its acquisition of thyssenkrupp’s mining business on September 1, 2022. But the overall change at FLSmidth also runs much deeper – Group CEO Mikko Keto also said during the CMD event[…]