Archives: Mineral exploration

Geoscience software company Seequent says it is accelerating the development of its cloud-based solution, Seequent Central, to enable organisations to continue work on critical, large-scale, earth, environment and renewable energy projects in the COVID-19 impacted environment. Central works alongside Seequent’s other geoscience analysis, modelling and collaborative technologies, to contribute understanding to subsurface geoscience and engineering[…]

SGS has a long and established record of providing the mining industry in Canada and worldwide with cutting-edge automated mineralogy. Recently, the SGS mineralogical team at the company’s lab in Burnaby, British Columbia added a TESCAN Integrated Mineral Analyser (TIMA-X) into their in-house capabilities. The company says this will help it continue delivering trusted automated[…]

SensOre has commenced a joint project with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) looking at automation and efficiency in big data cleaning and processing solutions for the mineral resource sector. Access to high-quality datasets has, in the past, been an obstacle to applying cutting-edge predictive analytics to solve geoscience and mineral exploration problems,[…]

Indiana Resources is using MICROMINE’s exploration and 3D mine modelling software to help secure and maintain the integrity of data relating to a sizable gold anomaly, with a value of over 50 parts per billion (ppb), at its tenements in West Africa, the mining software company says. High-grade soil sample results from the company’s Saboussire[…]

IMDEX has acquired AusSpec, an industry leader in automated mineralogy to the mining sector, in an A$8.5 million ($5.9 million) cash and shares deal. The deal closes a technology gap for IMDEX around rock knowledge, complements its existing tools that add value across the entire mining chain from exploration to production, and has the potential[…]

Shanta Gold has tapped the resource estimation powers of Micromine to confirm the presence of a gold reserve at its Singida project, in central Tanzania, according to the mining software provider. MICROMINE’s exploration and mine design solution, Micromine, which offers integrated tools for modelling, estimation, design, optimisation and scheduling, was used to validate Singida’s 243,000[…]

China’s Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining Co last month, on May 16, started processing oxide gold ore from the Sepon mine in Laos, operated by subsidiary Lane Xang Minerals Ltd (LXML) which is the first time the project has produced gold in over six years after MMG, the previous owner, stopped producing gold at the mine[…]

Epiroc has taken underground exploration drilling a step forward with the introduction of the Diamec Smart 6M, where M stands for mobile. IM spoke exclusively in advance of the launch with Ebrahim Nikafroozi, Global Product Manager, Underground Core Drills, about why the new model represents a major step forward. In today’s industry, most underground exploration[…]

High-grade, simple orebodies are becoming harder to find, forcing mines to process lower grade and more complex deposits. Being able to quantify the mineralogy of incoming ore-bearing rocks is critical to pre-planning and optimising processing operations as well as controlling costs. Most types of mineral processing activities can benefit from access to accurate daily mineralogy[…]

The University of Sydney’s Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering has set out how Australia’s copper mining sector can become emission free over the next 30 years through the use of emerging technologies in a new report. The Zero Emission Copper Mine of the Future report is a ‘world first’ roadmap, commissioned by the International Copper[…]