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Freeport McMoRan has announced that its Miami mine & smelting operation in Arizona and El Paso refinery in Texas recently earned the distinguished TheCopperMark designation. They join its Cerro Verde mine in Peru, El Abra mine in Chile and Atlantic Copper smelter and refinery in Spain which last year received the designation that FCX says[…]

De Beers Group has appointed Golder as the prime contractor to carry out the closure of the Victor Mine, Ontario’s first and only diamond mine which operated from 2008 through 2019. Following an extensive commercial process, Golder was selected to carry out the remaining closure activities, including demolition of the remaining infrastructure and rehabilitation of[…]

Capstone Mining has brought a second Caterpillar 994K wheel loader to its Pinto Valley operation in Arizona, USA, as it looks to reduce its emissions and improve its operating cost base at the copper mine. Last year, the mine added to its fleet a Cat 994K loader, which, the company says, burns circa-30 less gallons[…]

The boards of directors of Aggreko plc and Albion Acquisitions Ltd have reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a recommended all-cash acquisition from I Squared Capital and TDR Capital for the mobile power provider. The £8.80/share offer values Aggreko at £2.32 billion ($3.2 billion). Earlier this week, Aggreko announced an underlying profit before[…]

Mobile power provider Aggreko says it is making the transition from being a pure power provider to a long-term mining project investor that is helping miners navigate the energy transition. Aggreko has built an almost 60-year-long reputation for powering many sectors around the globe. It has also supplied power and underground cooling to the mining[…]

A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the potential expansion of Golden Star Resources’ Wassa gold mine in Ghana has flagged the potential for applying alternative underground haulage methods, and autonomous and battery-electric equipment at the operation. The PEA provides an assessment of the development of the Southern Extension of Wassa and the increase in mining[…]

Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc (DST) has entered into a Technology Framework Agreement with Hatch Ltd for the utilisation of DST’s arsenic stabilisation technology, known as the GlassLock Process™, in combination with Hatch’s fluid bed roasting and arsenic dry scrubbing technologies, on gold and arsenopyrite projects. “We are very pleased to announce this collaboration agreement with[…]

MacLean Engineering has become renowned for its battery-electric equipment in the last four-to-five years, having announced its electrified plans at MINExpo 2016, and steadily upped its offering in line with industry demand. Yet, it is not the only company in its field backing battery-powered production support developments underground. Recognising the same trend that led to[…]

A recent article in Japan’s financial newspaper The Nikkei saw much interest with the revelation that Komatsu is embarking on a hydrogen mining truck development program in 2021 and aims to have the trucks ready for practical use by 2030. But in reality, hydrogen is only part of the story as the major mining houses[…]

Vimson Group and Newlab’s Prospect Mining Studio announced today a half million dollar investment in its cohort member company CyanoGuard, the Switzerland-based chemtech startup shaping the future of cyanide detection for the gold mining industry. The investment caps the company’s extended seed round – with the first closing  in April 2020 – at more than[…]