Archives: Mineral project development

Tungsten West, the owner and operator of the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine in southwest England, has announced that it has received a draft permit from the UK’s Environment Agency for the operation of the Mineral Processing Facility (MPF) at Hemerdon. The draft permit is currently undergoing internal review to ensure all aspects are aligned[…]

Artemis Gold Inc has provided an update on Q4 construction progress at the Blackwater mine in central British Columbia. The project remains fully funded, within the guidance for initial capital expenditure, and on schedule for first gold pour in H2 2024. At December 31, 2023, overall construction was 59% complete, and approximately C$389 million of[…]

Aeris Resources has provided an update on the feasibility study underway on its 100% owned Stockman project in Victoria, Australia, guiding for a development path that includes ultrafine grinding and the Albion Process from Glencore Technology. Andre Labuschagne, Aeris’ Executive Chairman, said: “We are very excited with the potential of the Stockman project. Since acquiring[…]

In 2019, China’s Shanghai Electric placed the largest ever order for Liebherr excavators in number of machines – 28 R 9100s in total. The reliability of both the R 9100s and the support provided by Liebherr (China) Co Ltd resulted in the customer placing an order for four more of the excavators in 2022. The[…]

Leading underground mining contractor Murray & Roberts Cementation and its client Palabora Mining Company (PMC) have celebrated the last blast at the new ventilation shaft, which took its depth to a final 1,200 m below surface on January 9, 2024. The 8.5-m diameter upcast vent shaft – which holed through to an already-developed return air[…]

STRACON Group, a leading provider of state-of-the-art underground and surface mining services to the Americas, today announced that its subsidiary, Dumas Contracting Ltd, has been awarded a five year service contract covering all underground development and production activities at SilverCrest Metals Inc’s Las Chispas mine in Sonora, Mexico. “I want to thank SilverCrest for the opportunity to[…]

TAKRAF Group has announced the signing of a major contract with Societe Nationale Industrielle et Miniere (SNIM) for the supply of a complete iron ore crushing, screening, and material handling system, along with a train loading station for the F’Derick project in Mauritania. It is TAKRAF’s second major contract award in West Africa recently following the[…]

Denison Mines Corp has selected Wood Canada to complete the detailed design engineering for the in-situ recovery (ISR) mining project planned for Denison’s flagship Phoenix uranium deposit in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, Canada. Part of the global consulting and engineering firm Wood PLC, Wood Canada previously completed an NI 43-101 feasibility study in 2023[…]

Ero Copper Corp has provided a construction update for the Tucumã Project, highlighting significant progress since October 2023. With physical completion now at over 85% and production of copper concentrate scheduled to commence in H2 2024, the company has initiated the transition from construction to commissioning, as outlined below in the 2024 commissioning plan. The[…]

In a bid to boost its production capacity, Ghana’s wholly Ghanaian-owned gold mining major, Adamus Resources Ltd, with financial support from its parent company, Nguvu Mining Ltd, has launched 13 100 t capacity Liebherr T 236 electric drive mine haulage trucks at the company’s Nzema operation at Essiama in the Ellembelle District of the Western[…]