Archives: Mineral project development

Energy industry engineering major Technip Energies and global testing service company TÜV Rheinland recently signed a strategic alliance to offer Project Management Consulting Services to clients in the infrastructure, energy, chemicals and mining & metals industries. The five year alliance will leverage the two companies’ strengths as world class players in their respective industries and[…]

Balranald is a rutile-rich deposit in the northern Murray Basin of New South Wales, Australia. With deposits located approximately 60 m below the surface, Iluka is assessing the potential to develop these using a novel, internally developed, underground mining technology. Worley says its teams in Australia and Kolkata will provide engineering management and resources to[…]

Following the completion of all construction and commissioning activities, Polymetal’s Nezhda mine successfully produced first gold and silver concentrate on October 16th. This is two weeks ahead of the previously announced target date of November 1st. The concentrator now enters a ramp-up period, and is expected to reach its nameplate capacity of 180,000 oz/y and[…]

On October 15, China’s Zijin Mining released its Q3 2021 report, which detailed a net profit of CNY11.3 billion for the first nine months of the year, the first time it has broken through the CNY10 billion mark. This equates to some $1.76 billion, meaning it is rapidly positioning itself among the global Tier 1[…]

Epiroc says it has won a large order for surface mining equipment from IAMGOLD Corp in Canada that will optimise safety and productivity through advanced automation at its greenfield Côté Gold operation in Ontario. The order includes several Pit Viper 231 and SmartROC D65 drill rigs for the open-pit gold development, which is currently under[…]

South32 has entered into two binding conditional agreements with Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corporation (collectively Sumitomo) to acquire a 45% interest in the Sierra Gorda copper mine in Chile’s prolific Antofagasta copper region for an upfront cash consideration of $1.55 billion. Sierra Gorda is an operating mine in the prolific Antofagasta copper mining region,[…]

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on October 12 officiated at the groundbreaking ceremony for PT Freeport Indonesia’s (PTFI) new copper smelter at the Special Economic Zone Java Integrated Industrial and Port Estate (SEZ JIIPE) in Gresik, East Java. The $3 billion smelter will have a 1.7 Mt/y copper concentrate and 600,000 t/y copper cathode capacity plus[…]

Tharisa, the platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome co-producer, has announced that cold commissioning of its Vulcan ultra-fine chrome recovery and beneficiation plant has commenced. The timetable to completion of the new $55 million plant remains firmly on track with initial saleable production due before year end, it says. Once fully commissioned, the plant is[…]

BHP has become the latest company to back BluVein’s “next generation trolley-charging technology” project, with its Ventures arm joining Northern Star Resources, Newcrest Mining, Vale, Glencore, Agnico Eagle, AngloGold Ashanti and OZ Minerals as project partners. A BHP spokesperson said the collaboration was “part of our multi-faceted approach to reducing vehicle emissions at our operations”.[…]

Magnetite Mines Ltd says it has appointed Hatch to complete the process plant section of the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) on its Razorback iron ore project in South Australia. This, Magnetite Mines says, is an important contract award for the company and represents the largest component of the DFS expenditure and completes the appointment of[…]