Archives: Mineral project development

Kinross Tasiast gold mine continuous improvement (CI) and mobile maintenance departments have teamed up to develop and implement two new CI initiatives that are saving the mine in Mauritania approximately $250,000 per year. In 2019, the mobile maintenance team noticed that replacing halogen lights on the Cat 793D trucks had contributed to 146 hours of[…]

Robert Friedland, Ivanhoe Mines’ Executive Co-Chair, announced today that Ivanhoe Mines has pledged to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2) at the industry-leading Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Friedland made the announcement in advance of his participation in a virtual fireside discussion at the 2021 Goldman Sachs[…]

Centamin has announced it has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contracts for the 36 MW solar farm and 7.5 MW battery–energy storage system at the Sukari Gold Mine to juwi AG and Giza Systems. juwi AG has been contracted to design, supply and integrate the Sukari solar and battery plant into the current diesel[…]

Back in January, Canadian gold mining junior Osisko Development Corp with its flagship Cariboo Gold Project, located near Wells, central British Columbia, announced that a new Sandvik MT720 continuous miner (roadheader) had been delivered to the Cariboo site. The company is using the technology for drift development at the existing Bonanza Ledge Phase II mine[…]

RPMGlobal has announced a number of significant improvements to its leading Schedule Optimisation Tool (SOT), marking the most significant software release of the product since it was acquired by RPM through the acquisition of Revolution Mining Software Inc in 2020. The latest release of SOT, SOT4, includes an extensive list of functionality enhancements designed to[…]

On April 27, Hamlahera Persada Lygend (PT HPAL)’s nickel-cobalt project #1 autoclave on Obi Island, Indonesia was successfully put into trial production marking a major milestone in the 28-month construction period of the High Pressure Acid Leach (HPAL) wet process plant project and bringing it one step closer to full success. It is expected that[…]

In addition to a new primary crushing contract for its RCR Mining Technologies subsidiary, NRW Holdings has also announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Primero Group Ltd has been awarded a new contract for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of the Coburn Minerals Sands project for Strandline Resources. The project includes the delivery of[…]

NRW Holdings Ltd says its wholly owned subsidiary RCR Mining Technologies has been awarded a A$27.2 million contract for the design and construction of a Primary Crushing Plant (PCP) at Fortescue Metals Group’s Cloudbreak mine. “After successful delivery of the previous Hopper 9 Crushing Facility at Fortescue’s Cloudbreak mine in early 2020 this award is[…]

Pacific Energy Ltd subsidiary Contract Power Australia has signed a contract to build Western Australia’s largest network integrated Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for Fortescue Metals Group subsidiary Pilbara Energy (Generation) Pty Ltd. Under the contract, Contract Power will design, construct, test, install and commission two BESS units as part of Fortescue’s integrated power network in Western Australia’s Pilbara[…]

Barrick Gold Corporation’s giant Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex in western Mali has seen its third underground mine reach its first mining level and it is scheduled to start delivering ore tonnes to the plant during the current quarter, President and Chief Executive Mark Bristow told a recent media briefing. At the same time, a prefeasibility study[…]