Archives: Base metals

RUC Mining has announced that it has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of two ventilation shafts for a major global mining company in New South Wales, Australia. The shafts will be blind sinks to a depth of approximately 600 m at 5.5 m and 7.5 m diameter, respectively. The contract was[…]

Swift says it has secured an installation agreement and a new three-year subscription agreement with OZ Minerals Limited to service its Carrapateena mine site, in South Australia, with Swift Access. The total contract value of both agreements is A$1.4 million ($954,680) over the three-year subscription term and includes associated installation revenue, with installation expected to[…]

Canada Nickel Company Inc says the latest test work on material from its Crawford project, in Ontario, Canada, supports the incorporation of carbon capture and storage into the develoment. The company has devised an In-Process Tailings (IPT) Carbonation process, which, it says, is a novel method for accelerated carbon capture and storage that it believes[…]

FLSmidth says it has been chosen to supply the world’s highest capacity in-pit crushing system to a leading copper miner in South America to boost its efficiency. The order is valued at approximately DKK320 million (over $45 million), where around DKK80 million was booked in Q3 2022 and the rest in Q4 2022. The equipment[…]

After almost two years of work, Antofagasta Minerals’ Minera Centinela says it managed to materialise its decision to start operating 100% with seawater beginning Saturday, December 31. In this way, it has put an end to the extraction of groundwater, which was equivalent to 8% of the water used by the company. Getting to this[…]

Rokion and its New South Wales-based distributor LDO Group have continued their battery-electric utility vehicle momentum in Australia, with another unit having gone underground at Aeris Resources’ Tritton operations in the state. The electric light vehicle, an R100, has successfully completed its first trip underground after above-ground tests in 2022, the mining company said. Rokion[…]

OZ Minerals has announced that the Carrapateena cave safely propagated to surface on December 29, 2022, marking the transition from development to production planning at the operation in South Australia. OZ Minerals Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Cole, said: “The Carrapateena cave safely breaking through to surface marks a significant milestone for the[…]

Regulus Resources Inc has announced a $15 million non-brokered private placement by Nuton, which will see the Rio Tinto Venture take an approximate 16.5% interest in the company and jointly undertake copper sulphide leach testing using Nuton’s copper sulphide leach technologies with samples from the AntaKori project in Peru. The Nuton™ technologies, Rio says, have[…]

Minera Los Pelambres, one of the world’s leading copper producers and operated by Antofagasta PLC and a Japanese consortium that includes Marubeni Corporation, was recently awarded the Copper Mark as of November 30, 2022. Antofagasta owns 60% of the operation with the remaining 40% held by a Japanese consortium as follows: JX Nippon Mining &[…]

The first photovoltaic plant built on a closed tailings dam was recently inaugurated by Chilean copper miner Pucobre, within the framework of its commitment to sustainable mining. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Minister of Mining, Marcela Hernando, the National Director of Sernageomin, David Montenegro, the Regional Governor of Atacama, Miguel Vargas, the Presidential[…]