Archives: Mineral exploration

DDH1 Drilling has been selected by Auroch Minerals to carry out the maiden drilling programmes at the Arden and Bonaventura base and precious metal projects in South Australia. The programmes will comprise up to 5,000m of drilling targeting high-grade base metals and/or gold mineralisation across seven high-priority target areas. Drilling is set to kick off[…]

Danakali Ltd, the potash company focused on the development of the Colluli potash project in Eritrea, has confirmed its intention to seek admission to the Standard Segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (Admission) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Main Market. Admission and trading in the Ordinary[…]

Lucapa Diamond Co Ltd and its partners Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P. (Endiama) and Rosas & Petalas report the recovery of a 114 ct diamond from the Lulo diamond project in Angola. Recovered from alluvial Mining Block 6, this is the 11th +100 ct diamond recovered to date and the third so far in 2018,[…]

Qteq is making the most of its recent acquisition of subsurface data logging company Surtech Systems, securing what it believes is the first of many expected contracts to provide borehole data using new measurement sensors and systems. The contract for environmental logging in the Northern Territory, Australia, will use Qteq’s patented Borehole Magnetic Resonance (BMR)[…]

The Ministerial Committee on Economic Policy of the Finnish Government has reorganised the State’s mining industry holdings into a new holdings and development company. This will advance the development of Finland’s battery and mining cluster. The arrangement transfers Finnish Industry Investment Ltd’s (Tesi) investment program for the mining cluster under the responsibility of Terrafame Group[…]

Just how to better manage the historic booms and busts in Australia’s mining and energy resources cycles is to be a centrepiece of an international summit to be held in Australia later this year. The forum will be the inaugural convention of the Australia Geoscience Council which will meet for five days in Adelaide during[…]

In western South Africa, in the Northern Cape Province, lies Aggenys, a small mining town that was established back in 1976 on a farm with the same name. The geology in this region is one of the most diverse in the whole of South Africa and also boasts some of the highest concentrations of base-metals[…]

Indonesian state tin producer, PT Timah, has agreed to a deal for the design and delivery of a new tin smelter with Outotec, based on its Ausmelt Furnace technology. The delivery of the furnace is expected to take two years, with completion targeted by 2020. The new equipment will represent an upgrade from the reverberatory[…]

SGS has opened a new sample preparation facility in Yukon’s capital, Whitehorse, looking to serve what is becoming a growing customer base in the territory. The opening marks the expansion of SGS’s commercial geochemistry lab network in Canada, and the network’s first sample preparation lab in the Yukon. Vice President of Minerals for SGS Canada[…]

Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Corp, a Hitachi High-Technologies Corp wholly owned subsidiary engaged in the manufacture and sales of analysis and measuring instruments, has revealed its latest data management and storage service, ExTOPE Connect, for its range of Vulcan and X-MET handheld, and LAB-X500 benchtop industrial analysers. ExTOPE Connect provides users with real-time access to[…]