Archives: Mineral exploration

Veracio says it is furthering its commitment to redefining how miners find and process orebodies with a new partnership with The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). This partnership, slated to continue through 2024, marks an exciting collaboration between two leading organisations committed to shaping the future of the resource industry, Veracio said. Earlier[…]

Orexplore Technologies Limited, a mineral scanning technology company focused on the global mining and metals sector, says it has entered the South American market with a commercial field deployment for Gold Fields at its’ Salares Norte project in Chile. Salares Norte is a high-grade, epithermal gold-silver, open-pit deposit in the High Andes, Atacama Region, of[…]

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has finalised its agreement with Ivanhoe Electric Inc (IE) to purchase a 9.9% stake in the company and form a 50/50 joint venture to undertake what it says is one of the largest exploration programs ever conducted. The deal will provide Ma’aden, through the joint venture, with access to IE’s[…]

ASTERRA has announced that its Earth observation solution was used in collaboration with ACME Lithium Inc to locate 14 new points of interest for lithium in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, USA. In past uses of ASTERRA’s solution to locate lithium, it was reported that locating of the mineral was confirmed upon sampling with up to[…]

Micromine says Guanajuato Silver Company has chosen Micromine as its primary geological and mine design software provider. Micromine Origin and Micromine Beyond software will soon be implemented across four active mine sites – El Cubo, Valenciana, San Ignacio and Topia. Guanajuato Silver chose Micromine Origin and Micromine Beyond due to the comprehensive functionality, which has[…]

Starkey & Associates says it has arranged a sole source $1 million value contract with a major international mining company looking for geometallurgical ore hardness testing using its patented SAGDesign solution for process plant design. The company in question is developing two orebodies and requires this testing to design SAG mills using data from the[…]

The Metso Outotec global network of testing, research and product development facilities covers the whole process flowsheet from comminution through separation, to filtration, refining and pyrometallurgical/hydrometallurgical processing. It has centres all over the globe – in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Finland, Peru, USA and more – able to, the company says, offer extensive expertise and[…]

MSALABS, a global provider of geochemical laboratory services for the exploration and mining sectors and a majority-owned subsidiary of Capital, has provided an operational development update to coincide with the annual PDAC convention in Toronto, Canada, which highlights the deployment of western Canada’s first PhotonAssay™ technology unit. The first few months of 2023 have seen[…]

IMDEX will reveal the latest advances in its survey and measuring tools and its aiSIRIS interpretive mineralogy software at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference next week. IMDEX claims to have the most accurate north-seeking gyro on the market – REFLEX SPRINT-IQ (pictured) – but Chief of Product Management and Marketing, Michelle Carey,[…]

Boart Longyear Group Ltd has announced that its Geological Data Services division will now operate as a separate entity called Veracio. Veracio it says “is ideally suited to combine science and digital technologies in a single, integrated platform and help mining companies get more value from their orebody data, faster, while mitigating the environmental impact[…]