Archives: Mineral project development

Epiroc’s start-up mentality is enabling it to continue to solve the mining industry’s biggest challenges, but it is not doing this alone, according to Katarina Öquist, R&D Manager of Technology and Innovation in the Underground Division. Speaking ahead of her appearance at the EIT Raw Materials Summit 2022 in Berlin, Germany – taking place on[…]

Exploring for heavy minerals in Cameroon, a multinational mining company is gaining valuable results and insights through the use of an on-site pilot plant from South Africa-based process equipment leader Multotec. The pilot plant was designed and assembled at Multotec’s extensive design, manufacturing and testing facilities at Spartan near Johannesburg, South Africa, and shipped to[…]

In a presentation at the Bank of America Securities 2022 Global Metals, Mining & Steel Conference, BHP CEO Mike Henry talked up the potential for potash and decisions it has made to accelerate final development of its Jansen project in Saskatchewan, Canada, which in Stage 1 is expected to produce approximately 4.35 Mt/y of potash.[…]

About 1.2 million litres of diesel per year is what is consumed on average by a large mining truck, which causes the emission of 3,500 t of greenhouse gases (GHG), for which it is essential to look for clean alternatives, if the industry wants to meet its decarbonisation goals. In this context, a Mining Trolley[…]

Kerman Contracting Pty Ltd says it has been awarded a A$60 million ($42 million) contract from Mineral Resources Limited (MRL) to design and construct its Port of Ashburton Ore Storage facility in Onslow, Western Australia. The scope includes the design, fabrication, supply and erection of an enclosed 284-m-long ore storage facility and associated materials handling.[…]

Nevada Copper recently announced its Q1 2022 financial and operating results as well as recent milestone achievements and updates on key development initiatives for its Pumpkin Hollow underground mine and open pit project. Notably the underground mine paste plant began wet commissioning and filling of the first stope with paste backfill in April 2022. Paste[…]

BHP CEO Mike Henry led the opening of Spence’s new copper concentrator plant today. The project required an investment of $2.46 billion and has a throughput of 95,000 t/d to produce copper concentrate and molybdenum concentrate. The inauguration of the concentrator is part of a global plan by BHP that seeks to reinforce the copper[…]

Capstone Copper’s Mantoverde copper operation in Chile received 13 Komatsu 830E haul trucks in the March quarter in a sign of construction progress on its Mantoverde Development Project (MVDP). The company said the MVDP at the existing Mantoverde (oxide) operation in Chile continued to progress, having, as of April 30, 2022, achieved overall progress of[…]

Horizonte Minerals, a nickel development company focused in Brazil, has awarded the earthworks contract for the construction of its 100%-owned Araguaia ferronickel project to Copa Construção SA. Copa is a leading Brazilian company with extensive experience in mining projects and civil infrastructure, ranging from roads, viaducts, hydroelectric power plants, ports, airports and transmission lines, Horizonte[…]

Ivanhoe Mines Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland and President, Marna Cloete, announced at the African Mining Indaba Conference the completion of the Shaft 1 production changeover at the company’s tier-one Platreef palladium, rhodium, nickel, platinum, copper and gold project in South Africa, operated by Ivanplats. Shaft 1 will serve as Platreef’s initial production shaft and is[…]