Archives: Mineral project development

Ampcontrol says it has been named the supplier for conveyor control systems for Stage 1 at the BHP Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Ampcontrol iMAC monitoring and control system has achieved Canadian Standards Approval and will be used for conveyor controls on site, the company said, adding that this marks the first time[…]

The Queensland Government has committed funding to “reinvigorate” the Mount Morgan gold mine in the state, backing the tailings processing plans of Heritage Minerals, Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment, Cameron Dick, has confirmed. “From its proud history as the world’s largest gold mine in the early 1900s, Mount Morgan has been under State[…]

Engineering firm Worley has been awarded a contract for program management services and engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) to support Anglo American’s Woodsmith project in the UK, the mining company has confirmed. Worley, in tandem with other contractors, is being tasked with delivering a polyhalite mine for its client Anglo American. The project includes[…]

PIMS Group subsidiary, PIMS Mining, says it has been awarded a three-year fixed term contract – with a one-year extension option – with South32’s Illawarra Coal Holdings Pty Ltd, continuing to provide supplementary labour to its metallurgical coal mine, Appin, in New South Wales, Australia. Appin mine is around 70 km south of Sydney and[…]

MACA Interquip has been awarded a A$39.7 million ($26.3 million) engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the refurbishment of the Three Mile Hill (TMH) processing plant at the Coolgardie gold project, in Western Australia. Focus Minerals, the owner of the project, paused production in 2013 in response to lower gold prices to concentrate on[…]

GR Engineering Services has been appointed preferred tenderer by Boab Metals Limited in relation to the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the processing plant and non-process infrastructure for the Sorby Hills lead-silver project in Kununurra, Western Australia. GR Engineering and Sorby Hills Management Pty Ltd (the manager of the Sorby Hills joint venture)[…]

BHP has submitted a revised non-binding indicative proposal to the Board of OZ Minerals Limited (OZL) that, subject to a successful four-week due dilligence period, could see the major miner acquire the mid-tier base metal-focused miner. The offer to acquire 100% of OZ Minerals by way of a scheme of arrangement for a cash price[…]

Adventus Mining Corporation says negotiations have concluded for the award of the open pit mining contract to a joint-venture between STRACON SA, the well-established Peruvian mining contractor with operations throughout the Americas, and RIPCONCIV, a large and respected Ecuadorian infrastructure construction contractor, for the development of the El Domo-Curipamba copper-gold project located in central Ecuador.[…]

Centamin has announced the potential to expand the underground operation at its flagship Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt to 1.5 Mt/y of total ore mined, as supported by an independent option study. This is at the upper end of the previously indicated range and represents a 31% increase in ore mining rates from the current[…]

Hawsons Iron Ltd says it has signed a legally binding agreement with Flinders Ports Pty Ltd to co-operate on the potential development and operation of a greenfield port at Myponie Point Port on South Australia’s eastern Spencer Gulf. The scope of the agreement, formalising the terms of an earlier non-binding Memorandum of Understanding, has been[…]