Archives: Mineral exploration

NGEx Resources has started a PFS on its 100% owned Josemaría project in San Juan Province, Argentina. It has retained SRK Consulting (Canada) and Ausenco Engineering Canada to complete a PFS which will evaluate the potential to develop an open pit mine and adjacent process plant to exploit the Josemaría deposit. The PFS will benefit[…]

After having quadrupled in 2016 and fallen back substantially in the first half of 2017, chrome ore prices have been more stable over the past year, oscillating around $200/t during H1 2018 with a slight upward trend. The average ore production costs have increased largely due to rising oil prices, shipping tariffs and a strengthening[…]

Chile’s economic development agency, Corfo, has announced that the country’s first lithium technology centre will be built in the Antofagasta region. Corfo’s Executive Vice President, Sebastián Sichel, said last week the technological institute will be tendered in the next 90 days and is expected to be operational in 2019, according to the Santiago Times. The[…]

Eight METS (mining equipment, technology and services) companies will receive A$7.14 million (US$5.3 million), combined, to “launch collaborative industry projects that will deliver highly-advanced solutions to a variety of mining challenges and contribute to the growth and capability of the METS sector”, METS Ignited has confirmed. The METS Ignited Collaborative Project Funds is a government-funded,[…]

Drone startup Atmos UAV has closed its latest investment round with investment firm Disruptive Technology Ventures (DTV). Atmos has developed an industrial drone “that is a clever crossover between an airplane and a helicopter. The drone can already be found flying all over the world to help professionals in mapping large areas of land.” The[…]

Swick Mining Services has signed the first commercial agreement for its Orexplore mineral scanning technology. The agreement, between Swick’s fully-owned subsidiary Orexplore Australia and exploration company Saturn Metals, has already led to the first batch of 30m of core from Saturn’s Apollo Hill gold project in Western Australia being processed by the patented GeoCore X10 scanning[…]

Aus Tin Mining Ltd advises that test results for preliminary ore‐sorting test work for the Taronga tin project have been received from TOMRA Sorting Solutions, the results indicating that ore sorting is effective for Taronga ore. TOMRA undertook a suite of standard static tests on a 60 kg parcel of Taronga ore using X‐Ray Transmission[…]

Swick Mining Services, a leading provider of high quality underground and surface mineral drilling services has announced two contract renewals. Swick Managing Director Kent Swick said the renewals strengthened Swick’s relationship with its key customers across a number of high quality mines. “We are very pleased to have been selected as the preferred drilling contractor[…]

Bear Creek Mining Corp reports that the process plant construction permit for its Corani silver-lead-zinc project has been granted by the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM). With this approval, the Corani project is now fully permitted. The permit authorizes construction of the Corani process plant, waste and tailings co-disposal facilities, water storage system[…]

Deep-South Resources has signed a licence agreement with Alexander Mining to acquire a licence for the potential use of Alexander’s proprietary leaching technologies at the Kapili Tepe (KT) polymetallic copper project in the Sivas Province in the northeast/central part of Turkey. The Agreement is conditional on Deep-South completing the acquisition of a 75% equity interest[…]