Archives: Mine operation news

BHP, on World Environment Day, has announced new asset-level context-based water targets (CBWT) that aim to ensure local water resources are conserved and resilient. Unlike efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which can be tracked globally by measuring tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent released into the atmosphere, there is no single agreed metric to measure water[…]

Weir ESCO has completed another major milestone in its bucket-producing legacy, delivering a brand new, customised 164 yd (150 m) ESCO® ProFill® bucket to a customer in North America – a unit that, it claims, is now the largest dragline bucket currently operating anywhere in the world. Miners use dragline buckets to scoop up and[…]

Lantania says it has strengthened its position as a leading company in industrial water treatment with a contract to expand the permanent water treatment plant (PWTP) of the First Quantum Minerals-owned Cobre Las Cruces mining complex, in the province of Seville, Spain. The company has been awarded the contract for the drafting of the project,[…]

Metso says it has signed a two-year Life Cycle Services (LCS) contract with Ma’aden’s Base Metals and New Minerals company’s new gold processing plant at the Mansourah & Massarah site in Saudi Arabia. Metso will support the customer in commissioning, ramping up and optimising the new greenfield site, covering both maintenance and plant operations, it[…]

Sandfire Resources Ltd on May 25 announced that it had successfully produced first copper concentrate at its Motheo Copper Mine in Botswana. Construction of the Motheo Copper Mine is nearing completion, with equipment commissioning activities over 92% complete for the initial 3.2 Mt/y processing capacity. T3 open pit mining is proceeding on schedule with more[…]

NRW Holdings’ wholly owned subsidiary Golding Contractors Pty Ltd (Golding) has signed a contract with EQ Resources Limited (EQR), for the restart of the open pit mining operations at its 100%-owned Mt Carbine tungsten mine near Cairns, Queensland. The committed contract period is 70 months and representing an estimated contract value of A$179 million. The contract[…]

NRW Holdings says its wholly owned subsidiary, Primero Group Limited, has been awarded a contract by Rio Tinto for work at the Western Range mine site, within the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Under the contract, Primero will be responsible for the design, supply, construction and commissioning of the non-process infrastructure facilities on site. This[…]

Almonty Industries Inc says that plans are now well advanced to reopen the Los Santos former tungsten producing mine in Spain, which has been in planned care and maintenance since 2020. Since that time, Almonty has been undertaking studies into the re-commencement of production from Los Santos via the retreating of tailings, utilising the company’s flotation[…]

Gold Fields will soon begin an autonomous truck trial at its Granny Smith underground mine in Western Australia, leveraging the robotic smarts of Universal Field Robots (UFR) and an existing Epiroc Minetruck MT65 it has within its fleet. In the company’s recently released annual results, Gold Fields stated it was developing its first underground automated[…]

Metso says it has been awarded an order for key concentrator plant equipment by Zijin Mining Group for its Julong copper project in the Tibetan Autonomous region. The value of the order is approximately €85 million ($93 million). The comminution circuit will be one of the highest powered in China, including a Superior™ MKIII primary[…]