Archives: Mineral exploration

Inmarsat has said it and IMDEX, a leading mining equipment, technology and services provider to the global minerals industry, are working together to enhance a drilling intelligence solution with satellite connectivity. Now combined with Inmarsat’s L-band satellite connectivity as standard, IMDEXHUB-IQ™ gives mining and drilling companies the ability to analyse and upload field data in[…]

BHP has confirmed identification of a potential new iron oxide, copper, gold (IOCG) mineralised system, located 65 km to the southeast of BHP’s operations at Olympic Dam in South Australia. As part of its ongoing copper exploration program, four diamond drill holes, totalling 5,346 m, intersected copper, gold, uranium and silver mineralisation of IOCG style[…]

Goldcorp and IBM Canada have co-authored what they term “an innovative first of a kind technology product” to improve predictability for gold mineralisation. IBM Exploration with Watson applies artificial intelligence to predict the potential for gold mineralisation and uses powerful search and query capabilities across a range of exploration datasets, according to Goldcorp. “The potential[…]

Tinka Resources Ltd reports an updated Mineral Resources estimate for its 100%-owned Ayawilca zinc and tin deposits in Peru. Part of the Zinc Zone Mineral Resource is now classified as Indicated, incorporating a higher-grade portion of the deposit. In addition, the updated Inferred Mineral Resource is of a similar size and grade to the previous[…]

European Electric Metals has engaged the Nordmin Group of Companies to undertake a site inspection and to comment on the apparent condition of the surface and underground infrastructure and equipment of the Skroska project in Albania. The site inspection will allow Nordmin to judge whether the existing underground workings and mine equipment can be used[…]

One of the few “construction-ready” copper-gold-silver projects yet to be funded has contemplated the use of autonomous haul trucks in its latest economic study. The prefeasibility study for the Josemaría project in San Juan province, Argentina, showed ore would be mined using conventional open-pit methods and assumed the latest in autonomous haul truck technologies. The[…]

Sibanye-Stillwater reports that the South African Competition Tribunal has approved the proposed acquisition of Lonmin Plc, subject to specific conditions. In addition to the conditions agreed between Sibanye-Stillwater and the Competition Commission (details of which were provided in the announcement on 18 September 2018), a further condition has been imposed by the Competition Tribunal, namely:[…]

MOD Resources Ltd’s Prospectus dated 19 November 2018 has been approved by the UK Listing Authority and has been published. MOD is a copper exploration and development company focused on the central and western Kalahari Copper Belt in Botswana. The primary focus is the development of its wholly owned T3 copper project, for which a[…]

The bankable feasibility study on Australian Mines’ Sconi cobalt-nickel-scandium project in Queensland, Australia, has shown a three open pit, 2 Mt/y operation can be built for some $974 million. For this investment, the company anticipates producing some 8,496 t/y of cobalt sulphate, 53,301 t/y of nickel sulphate and 89 t/y of scandium oxide over the[…]

Boart Longyear has chosen this year’s Groundwater Week exhibition as the appropriate setting to display its advanced sonic drilling technology which employs the use of high-frequency, resonant energy to eliminate or minimise friction in subsurface drilling applications. Its highly productive LS™250 sonic drill rig will be on show at the event. This features the MiniSonic™[…]