Archives: Mineral exploration

Base Resources Ltd has appointed partners Mineral Technologies and Lycopodium to deliver the PFS for its Toliara mineral sands project (Toliara Sands Project) in the southwest of Madagascar. The Ranobe mine of the Toliara Sands Project is projected to produce 600,000 t/y of ilmenite and 65,000 t/y of zircon rich concentrate over an initial 20[…]

Savannah Resources reports the issuance of letters of no objection from all eight Ministries for both the Mahab 4 and Maqail South mining licence applications.  Savannah is a 65% shareholder in the Omani company Al Fairuz Mining LLC, the holder of the Block 5 exploration licence which includes these two high-grade copper deposits. Letters of[…]

Taranis Resources has test-smelted the first batches of concentrate from the 2017 gold pilot plant and recovered some of the gold. The gold has been delivered to a refinery in Richmond, British Columbia where it will be upgraded from its original 91.75% purity to 99.99%. Picture shows Thomas Gardiner with first button of gold from[…]

The 2018 International Tin Conference in Budapest was successfully held last month, with over 200 delegates in attendance. The conference programme highlighted, in particular, the increasing focus on responsible tin sourcing, while assessing the outlook for tin supply and impact of new technologies. During the conference, various views on responsible sourcing were expressed by a[…]

Qteq clients will soon have access to a series of new, innovative measurement sensors and systems to provide borehole data, after the business agreed to acquire Perth-based subsurface data logging company Surtech Systems Pty Ltd. Qteq also agreed to acquire Directional & Measurement Whilst Drilling (MWD) company WellServ Pty Ltd, in a cash and scrip[…]

Perth was abuzz this morning reports John Chadwick, who is there at the moment, with Azumah Resources latest drilling results from its Wa project. • KRC831 returns continuously mineralised intercept of 44 m at 5.37g/t Au from 99 m (0.5g/t Au cutoff) • Includes two high-grade zones comprising (1.0g/t Au cutoff): • 6 m at[…]

For mining equipment major Epiroc, telematics solutions mean both service for customers and opportunities for increased revenues. “If we fully used telematics as a tool to accelerate our sales of replacement parts, the development would be enormous”, says Oscar Lundhede, Product Manager Technology Products MRS at Epiroc. “All of our machines are equipped with telematics[…]

Next month Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry, near Buxton, in Derbyshire, England, will once again host the world’s biggest working quarry exhibition, and with no fewer than 525 UK and overseas companies booked into Hillhead 2018, this year’s event will be 10% larger than ever before, easily surpassing the 476 exhibitors that attended in 2016. Show director[…]

Boart Longyear is proud that its Drilling Services division in Canada has reached more than 4.2 million man hours over the last three years (April 2015 to April of 2018), with no lost-time incidents (LTIs). The company currently employs approximately 640 field employees that work safely every day on drilling projects like surface and underground[…]

Ausdrill Ltd has completed a transaction to sell its Diamond Communications Pty Ltd business to private group Powerlines Plus Pty Ltd (PLP). “After a 19- year association, circumstances have allowed the sale of the business to a strong industry player with markets closely aligned to Diamond and is a further execution on Ausdrill’s recent strategy[…]