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Global Atomic Corporation has announced the signing of Development Consultants Private Ld (DCPL) of Kolkata, India, and Lycopodium Minerals Canada Ltd to commence the basic and detailed engineering, procurement and Project Management of the Dasa Mine processing plant in the Republic of Niger. These engineering and project delivery firms were selected to form an Integrated[…]

The Venetia Underground Project (VUP) is at the heart of diamond major De Beers’ future mining strategy in South Africa – it will extend production at Venetia to at least 2046, and will allow the company to fully access both the K01 and K02 kimberlites at depth. VUP is set to deliver between 4.5 and[…]

Italian company Bedeschi says it is progressing well with its project to help extend the existing heap leaching pad in Arlit, Niger on behalf of uranium mining company SOMAIR, a subsidiary of the ORANO group headquartered in France. Bedeschi is in charge of carrying out the engineering work and the mechanical and electrical supply of[…]

ABB is installing its enterprise-grade digital platform ABB Ability™ Genix Industrial Analytics and AI Suite to enable Gold Fields’ Salares Norte project in Chile to drive efficient, sustainable and remote operations. The gold and silver mine is located in the Atacama Desert, among the highest peaks of the Andes mountain range with elevations of between[…]

In July 2022, Komatsu Middle East and Karachi-based engineering firm Jaffer Brothers completed the assembly of the first of a new fleet of Komatsu 91 t HD785-7 haulers, the largest mining trucks introduced to date in Pakistan. The trucks have been imported for Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC)’s Thar Block 2 Coalfield Project as[…]

Udokan Copper, the developer of Russia’s largest and one of the world’s biggest copper deposits, has received the first batch of 136 t BELAZ dump trucks as it prepares to begin industrial copper mining. The company says it will also consider using electric hybrid trucks in the future to reduce emissions during the works. The[…]

Tungsten West PLC, the mining company focussed on restarting production at the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine in Devon, England, has concluded a re-evaluation of the options for bringing the Hemerdon Mine back into production and announces its new development plan. The plan has been developed in response to global crises in power and diesel[…]

Snow Lake Resources Ltd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Epiroc Canada Inc for Epiroc to assist with the technical and commercial design of the world’s first fully electric lithium mine at the company’s Snow Lake LithiumTM project in Manitoba, Canada. In addition, the company provided an update on its ongoing drilling campaign[…]

Clough has been appointed as lead Engineer and preferred EPC contractor for the development of TNG’s Mount Peake project located 235 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.  The Mount Peake Project, which is one of the largest undeveloped vanadium-titanium-iron projects in the world, has been awarded Major Project Status by both the[…]

Community and government stakeholders recently visited Lane Xang Minerals Ltd’s (LXML) Sepon gold mine to open the first modern underground mine in Lao PDR (Laos). “Sepon has thousands of years of mining history,” said Paul Harris, LXML General Manager. “This new development will use modern underground mining equipment, and advanced mining techniques, to transfer knowledge[…]