Archives: Mineral project development

ABB has been selected by BHP to deliver a power management system for the Jansen Potash Project in Canada, which will provide nutrient-rich potash fertiliser to enable more sustainable farming globally. The global resource company is progressing the $5.7 billion Jansen Stage 1 Potash Project which is expected to achieve first production in late 2026.[…]

PT Redpath Indonesia says it achieved yet another milestone in November 2022, when the first ever Redbore 90 EX large diameter raisebore was successfully commissioned. The commissioning followed the large diameter contract awarded to PTRI earlier in the year. It said the historic achievement was the culmination of a very demanding and concerted effort by[…]

Kazakh gold miner AltynGold PLC has announced that an additional credit line for an amount of $40 million from Kazakh Bank JSC Bank Center Credit (BCC) has been successfully secured. The loans are repayable in instalments over a term of six and a half years with interest charges ranging from 3% to 7%. The additional[…]

West African Resources Limited is heading towards construction at its 90%-owned Kiaka gold project in Burkina Faso, having registered strong funding interest, awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract and booked the mill package for the development. Kiaka, an asset with 7.7 Moz of reserves and resources on its books, is the company’s[…]

EPC-UK says its full rock-on-ground services will soon begin work at the Hemerdon tungsten-tin deposit in Devon, England, as part of a new contract it has secured. The company’s work will begin in 2023 and will enable operator, Tungsten West Ltd, to benefit from EPC-UK’s skilled level of drilling and blasting expertise as it sustainably[…]

The latest drill intercepts from Alamos Gold’s Island Gold Mine in Ontario, Canada, have continued to showcase the potential of an asset that already has a more than 17-year mine life ahead of it, John McCluskey, President and Chief Executive Officer, says. On the same day as releasing an assortment of promising drill intercepts outside[…]

Aya Gold & Silver Inc has announced that its subsidiary, Zgounder Millennium Silver Mining SA, has entered into a fixed price EPC contract with Spanish company Duro Felguera SA (DF) for construction of the new Zgounder process plant in the Kingdom of Morocco. The miner says it has also awarded contracts for the construction of[…]

Metso Outotec says it has signed an agreement with Kyzyl Aray Copper, a subsidiary of Caravan Resources, for the supply of copper solvent extraction and electrowinning technology for a plant to be built in the Karagandy region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The order of approximately €35 million ($37 million) covers a technology package delivery[…]

Devico is the inventor and leading worldwide provider of directional core drilling (DCD), with its DeviDrill steerable wireline core barrel. In addition to directional drilling technology it also produces state-of-the-art borehole surveying products for downhole navigation, core orientation, drill rig alignment and QA/QC data management. After extensive development and a thorough trial period Devico has[…]

Pilbara Minerals and Calix have executed a joint venture (JV) agreement for the development of a demonstration plant using Calix’s patented calcination technology at the Pilgangoora project in Western Australia. The aim of the joint venture is to produce lithium salts via an innovative midstream “value added” refining process leveraging this calcination technology. It will[…]