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23 Mar 2020
Newmont withdraws 2020 guidance as four mines go into care and maintenance mode
Newmont says it is withdrawing its full-year 2020 guidance after placing four of its operations...
23 Mar 2020
Zenith Energy to power up Plutonic gold mine
Zenith Energy says it will add a further 6 MW of installed capacity at Billabong...
19 Mar 2020
New thyssenkrupp stacker starts up at Rio Tinto’s East Intercourse Island facility
thyssenkrupp is celebrating the first ore aboard a new stacker at the bulk handling facilities...
19 Mar 2020
West African moves into new phase at Sanbrado following gold pour
West African Resources says it has poured first gold at its Sanbrado gold project, in...
18 Mar 2020
Cisco IoT solution underwrites Boliden automation transition at Garpenberg
Cisco says it has helped Sandvik and Boliden deliver a safe, autonomous and efficient operation...
18 Mar 2020
Buenaventura and Sierra Metals scale back Peru operations
Compañia de Minas Buenaventura and Sierra Metals have become the latest companies to scale down...
18 Mar 2020
NRW Holdings to upgrade Olympic Dam airport
NRW Holdings’ wholly-owned subsidiary, NRW Contracting, has been awarded an airport upgrade contract with BHP...
17 Mar 2020
Freeport’s Cerro Verde is the latest COVID-19 casualty among Peru’s big mines
Freeport-McMoRan Inc has announced that to comply with the Peruvian Government's Supreme Decree and declaration...
17 Mar 2020
Vale to ramp down Voisey’s Bay nickel mine for a month
Vale has become the latest miner to react to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, saying it...
17 Mar 2020
Newmont’s Yanacocha latest major global mine to ramp down due to COVID-19
Newmont Corporation announced today that coronavirus-related government restrictions in Peru will require safely ramping down...
17 Mar 2020
COVID-19 slows work slows at globally important copper projects Quellaveco & Oyu Tolgoi
The effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) spread is now being felt in slowdowns at some...
17 Mar 2020
RCT tech-agnostic automation solutions find favour in USA
Having made a name for itself in Australia and elsewhere, RCT’s ControlMaster™ automation and control...