Archives: History of mining

Discussing its exploration activity in South Korea, Southern Gold Managing Director, Simon Mitchell says: “Our strategic aim with the project generation strategy is not to ‘land grab’ for the sake of it but to build a quality portfolio of targets with demonstrable mineralisation on or close to surface with the potential for the discovery of[…]

JV partners Minotaur Exploration and OZ Minerals are expanding exploration activity across their Eloise joint venture southeast of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. This has the potential to be a major copper/gold find. Key points: • 7,600 m of drilling almost completed at ‘Jericho’, south of the Eloise copper mine • Drilling scope expanded to encompass similarly[…]

Copper Investing News reports “Zijin Mining has emerged as the winning bidder for a partnership in the RTB Bor copper complex in Serbia.The Serbian Minister for Mines And Energy Aleksander Antic said that Zijin’s bid had been for $1.26 billion in investment in the neglected complex, and another $200 million to settle RTB Bor’s debts[…]

The team behind MEGATEM is inducted in the Exploration category of the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame. Ken Witherly (BHP) and John Gingrich (Noranda) were users of the equipment that recognized the potential of the system and drove the development of the system from the demand perspective.  This demand was not just in their[…]

James Herbert Fletcher is the underground development inductee to the IM Technology Hall of Fame. He began his company intent on developing technology that would greatly improve mine productivity and reduce personnel risk by using rubber-tyre, non-track-mounted vehicles in underground applications. In 1938, the company showed its first products at a coal show in Cincinnati;[…]

J.V.N. Dorr’s first development was  the Dorr classifier.  John Dorr was one of the great inventors of methods to process solid particles and he was quick to take these methods from ideas to operating practice. Wet ball mills were being tested on the gold ores in South Africa and copper ores in Arizona and the[…]

Although gold production grew for nine consecutive years to reach an all-time high in 2017, and is expected to rise further to new highs in 2019-2020, the mid-term outlook for some key countries is set to slump to generational lows, according to the newly published S&P Global Market Intelligence Gold Pipeline annual report. Chris Galbraith,[…]

Located in between two former gold mines – the Ridgeway and Brewer mines – the Haile gold mine has a rich history dating back to the early 1800s. The property has been mined and re-mined for nearly 200 years. Discovered in 1827 by Benjamin Haile in Lancaster County, South Carolina, the mine was one of[…]

For his massive contribution to the large-scale commercialisation of solvent extraction of copper, in Zambia and worldwide, Jack Anthony Holmes, formerly Technical Director of Anglo American Corp (AAC), has been nominated by Ken Severs (formerly Group Metallurgical Executive, Rio Tinto) and Les Stewart (formerly Technical Director, Anglo American Corp, South America). In 1970, Holmes, after[…]

David Noon co-founded GroundProbe in 2001 after co-inventing the original Slope Stability Radar (SSR) whilst working as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He began his career at GroundProbe as the Chief Technology Officer and after holding a number of senior positions across technology-based roles, is currently the Vice President, Global Operations[…]