Archives: Mineral exploration

DeepGreen Metals Inc has formalised partnerships with leading scientific research institutions and internationally-renowned universities in a significant investment into its ongoing deep-sea discovery program to characterise the potential impacts of lifting polymetallic nodules up from the bottom of the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean. The battery metals start-up is investing over $60[…]

KCGM is a world famous large, high quality, long-life open-pit and underground gold mine located in the globally renowned Golden Mile Region of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia, with the open pit often just referred to as the Super Pit. Some 465,000 oz of gold was produced in FY2020 (100% basis), making it one of the largest[…]

In looking to retain the mantle of Australia’s safest drilling company while expanding into the underground mining sector, Titeline Drilling has found support from some of the biggest miners in the world. The company has long been viewed as a leading surface mineral exploration drilling contractor but, as David D’Astoli, CEO of Titeline, explained, this[…]

Women are continuing to make strides in the traditionally male-dominated mining sector – the latest being an all-female drilling crew from mining services provider Rosond, commencing work on two prospecting sites in the Northern Cape. Rosond says the drilling at Kumba Iron Ore’s Kolomela and Sishen mines is equally inspiring as a story of female[…]

Kirkland Lake Gold is to install a Chrysos PhotonAssay unit at its Fosterville mine, in Victoria, Australia, as it looks to simplify, speed up and improve its mineral assaying process. The agreement with Chrysos has seen the unit delivered to Fosterville, with the installation to be fully operational by early October. Originally developed at Australia’s[…]

Swick Mining Services Limited has secured new drilling contracts with BHP’s Olympic Dam mine and MATSA’s copper operation in Spain at the same time as confirming the first commercial agreement for its Mineral Technology Business. In what will be Swick’s second largest project, the company has been awarded a five-year contract to provide underground drilling[…]

Capital Drilling says it has added a brand new Epiroc Explorac 235 reverse circulation drilling rig to its exploration line up in Mali. The contractor, which is currently carrying out drilling contracts for the likes of Altus Strategies/Glomin, Hummingbird Resources and Resolute Mining in Mali, said the new rig features fully radio remote-controlled operation and[…]

Rio Tinto has approved an additional investment of almost $200 million to progress the next stage of the development of the Jadar lithium-borate project in Serbia. This will primarily fund the feasibility study, including the completion of detailed engineering designs, as well as permitting and land acquisition by the end of 2021, in line with[…]

Swick Mining Services Ltd, a leading provider of high‐quality underground and surface mineral drilling and mineral analysis services, has been awarded a contract extension from Northern Star Resources at the Jundee Gold Operations in Western Australia. The two‐year extension, with a two‐year option, was awarded at Swick’s target margins after a competitive tender process. Jundee[…]

With the COVID-19 pandemic upending economic prospects for 2020 and a global recession in the offing, many companies are looking to cut costs by scaling back investment into innovation, research, and development programs. But global mining-tech company IMDEX says that for it product development is a long game “that will deliver valuable upside no matter[…]