Archives: Mineral project development

South African chrome and PGMs miner Tharisa is gearing up for its Karo open pit platinum mining project in Zimbabwe. The company now owns 70% of Karo Mining Holdings, with 30% held by Leto Settlement. Karo Mining Holdings fully owned subsidiary Karo Zimbabwe Holdings in turn owns 85% of Karo Platinum, the operating company, with[…]

NRW Holdings Limited’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Primero Group, has executed a long term contract for the operations and maintenance (O&M) of Core Lithium’s processing plant and related infrastructure at its Finniss lithium project in the Northern Territory of Australia. Under the terms of the contract, Primero will operate and maintain the processing and infrastructure facilities at[…]

For 15 years, Norsk Hydro-owned Hydro Paragominas has actively contributed to the economic and social development of the municipality of Paragominas and intends to continue with its sustainable bauxite mining operations in the region. The Miltônia 5 (M5) project represents this objective: an investment of approximately BRL 590 million (just under US$114 million) in a[…]

As Adriatic Metals gears up for first concentrate production at its Vares silver project in Bosnia & Herzegovina, it has revealed details of the mining fleet set to carry out work at the underground Rupice mine. In its latest update, the company said project construction was 45% complete, with decline development progressing well – the[…]

SRG Global Ltd says its Aboriginal Joint Venture, Bugarrba, has been awarded a five-year term contract with Iron Bridge Operations in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The five-year term contract with Iron Bridge, an unincorporated joint venture between Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) subsidiary FMG Iron Bridge and Formosa Steel IB, is a master agreement for[…]

Normet Canada says it has been awarded a contract from BHP to deliver a large fleet of multi-use battery-electric vehicles (BEV) to the Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan, Canada. The delivery period of the fleet is expected to commence in the March quarter 2023 and extends to 2024. The Normet fleet order follows on from[…]

G4S says it had to be resourceful when tackling the challenges of providing security for Centerra Gold’s Öksüt gold mine in Turkey, a 15 km2 remote site. The tailor-made security solution centres around non-fixed cameras, which move as mining areas change. Protecting a site which is 15 km2 and has a perimeter measuring 19 km[…]

NRW Holdings company Primero Group recently began a four year contract with Atlas Iron Pty Ltd which includes design, supply, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of crushing and screening facilities to produce lump and fine iron ore products for Atlas’ Miralga Creek operation at processing rates of up to 1,000 t/h. The PGX-1000 plant innovations[…]

Rio Tinto has started producing spodumene concentrate, which is used in the production of lithium for batteries, at a demonstration plant at its Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium (RTIT) Quebec Operations metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Canada. The plant will demonstrate at industrial scale a new spodumene concentration process that provides lithium oxide (Li20) grades and[…]

In a fast-track EPC project, TAKRAF says it is supplying two conveyors for Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée’s (CBG) bauxite expansion project in Guinea. This conveyor system package has been brought forward from the Phase 2 expansion project and TAKRAF’s award follows the successful delivery of an EPC contract, awarded in late 2016, for Phase[…]