Archives: Mineral exploration

Geodrill Ltd, the West African based drilling company, says it has been awarded significant multi-rig long-term drilling contracts with Endeavour Mining PLC, the West African-based mining company with gold production and exploration activities across West Africa. The contracts with Endeavour Mining Corp are for a total 350,000 m of exploration and mine reserve drilling across[…]

Boart Longyear Group Ltd recently announced that its manufacturing plant in Wroclaw, Poland, had completed the facility’s largest order ever for 12 LF™160 drill rigs and FREEDOM Loaders to be delivered to Mitchell Services Ltd, an Australian customer. The achievement included the coordination of teams in Poland, Australia, Germany, and the US. Pat Nill, Boart[…]

Britannia Life Sciences Inc has announced the formation of a new subsidiary to service the global mining industry. Britannia Mining Solutions Inc will operate as a partially owned subsidiary of Britannia with the initial objective of setting up mining assay labs to address the global backlog in mining assays. In establishing the business, BMS completed[…]

Hexagon’s Mining division has announced the introduction of HxGN MinePlan GeoSlate, a mobile, geological drill hole logging application that, it says, simplifies the field data collection process. GeoSlate, part of MinePlan’s Exploration Geo package, collects field drill hole data via a recommended field-ready mobile tablet. It integrates with MinePlan 3D, completing the geology workflow from[…]

Geodrill Ltd says it has been awarded significant multi-rig long-term drilling contracts with Endeavour Mining, which will see it carry out work across its West Africa gold operations. The contracts with Endeavour Mining are for a total 350,000 m of exploration and mine reserve drilling across its key West African operations for a period of[…]

Kalumbila Minerals Ltd in Zambia has changed its trading name to ‘FQM Trident Limited’ – a name that incorporates the mining firm’s identity as a 100% First Quantum Minerals-owned company and is inclusive of all the Trident Project operations. Since its inception, the company’s mining operations and project has incorporated three mining licences, namely Sentinel,[…]

Di-Corp, a Canada-based manufacturer and distributor of down-hole consumables for the mineral exploration industry, has announced a dedicated West Africa sales representative located in Accra, Ghana. The Di-Corp Accra representative will support existing and new customers in the region by providing an in-region contact who can coordinate the delivery of high-quality drill rod, diamond tooling,[…]

Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster has launched the Mining Microbiome Analysis Platform (MMAP) project, which, it says, is the largest investment in planned natural resource genomic sequencing in the history of the sector. With breakthrough biomining solutions, the MMAP project will be the catalyst for sustainable mining practices on a global scale by replacing energy and[…]

Geodrill Ltd, a leading West African based drilling company, has announced that it has been awarded a significant drilling contract with Centamin PLC at their Sukari Gold Mine, a low cost, bulk tonnage open pit and high grade underground gold mining operation in Egypt. The five-year contract, the largest in Geodrill’s history, is for a[…]

Innovative automation focused mining equipment manufacturer Tribe Technology Group recently closed a new funding round which will be used to position the company to take advantage of high demand for its autonomous drill rigs and to develop new products. Based in Mallusk, Northern Ireland and Perth, Australia, the business is led by a team of[…]