Archives: Mineral project development

An updated feasibility study on Tungsten West’s Hemerdon project in Devon, England, has brought with it a processing re-optimisation program that includes a complete redesign of the front-end crushing circuit at the mine, a process that, it says, will considerably reduce the capital expenditure associated with this development. The new study outlined average annual production[…]

Swedish iron ore miner LKAB says it has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna area, metals which are essential for, among other applications, the manufacture of electric vehicles and wind turbines. Following successful exploration, the company reports mineral resources of rare earth metals exceeding 1 Mt of rare earth oxides making[…]

Saudi mining house Ma’aden has announced the signing of an Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services contract with WorleyParsons Arabia Ltd and JESA International SA. They will provide EPCM services for the construction of the Phosphate 3 complex Phase 1 project that will produce 1.5 Mt per year of phosphate fertilisers. An integrated production[…]

KEFI, the gold and copper exploration and development company with projects in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is pleased to announce the award of five additional exploration licenses through the company’s Gold and Minerals Ltd (GMCO) joint venture in Saudi Arabia. GMCO is owned 30% by KEFI and[…]

Central Asia Metals has provided a Q4 and full year 2022 operations update for the Kounrad dump leach, solvent extraction and SX-EW copper recovery plant in Kazakhstan and the Sasa zinc-lead mine in North Macedonia.In 2022 summary there were zero lost time injuries (LTIs) at Kounrad and two LTIs at Sasa. There was record copper[…]

Asiamet Resources Limited says it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BGRIMM Technology Group (BGRIMM) in relation to the engineering and procurement of the solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) plant for the BKM copper project processing facility in Indonesia. BGRIMM is a leading Chinese engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) group providing services to[…]

Law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) is advising the Republic of Guinea on the $15 billion Simandou iron ore project, which it cites as the world’s largest mining and related rail and port infrastructure project today, and recently reviewed its role and the progress made to date. The Simandou project involves the exploitation of[…]

Fluor Corp has announced that it has been selected by Hellas Gold Single Member SA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eldorado Gold Corp, to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for its Skouries gold-copper mining project located within the Halkidiki Peninsula of Greece. Fluor booked its share of the $845 million project investment value[…]

RUC Mining has announced that it has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of two ventilation shafts for a major global mining company in New South Wales, Australia. The shafts will be blind sinks to a depth of approximately 600 m at 5.5 m and 7.5 m diameter, respectively. The contract was[…]

Lithium Americas says it has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the construction of the Thacker Pass lithium project, in Nevada, USA, to Bechtel. Lithium Americas has all federal and state permits needed to commence construction at Thacker Pass, a project with the potential to produce 40,000 t/y of battery-quality lithium[…]