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Kinross Tasiast gold mine continuous improvement (CI) and mobile maintenance departments have teamed up to develop and implement two new CI initiatives that are saving the mine in Mauritania approximately $250,000 per year. In 2019, the mobile maintenance team noticed that replacing halogen lights on the Cat 793D trucks had contributed to 146 hours of[…]

Gold Fields Ltd advises that its Board of Directors has given the green light for the construction of a 40 MW solar plant at the South Deep gold mine mine in South Africa. This follows the granting of a licence by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa on 25 February 2021. The 40 MW[…]

A 19 km overland conveyor system, designed and installed by the TAKRAF India office, for the greenfield Utkal Alumina Project includes the longest single flight conveyor system to be installed within Indian territory to date. Utkal Alumina is a 100% subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group company Hindalco. The project is in Tikri in the Rayagada[…]

Barrick Gold Corporation’s giant Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex in western Mali has seen its third underground mine reach its first mining level and it is scheduled to start delivering ore tonnes to the plant during the current quarter, President and Chief Executive Mark Bristow told a recent media briefing. At the same time, a prefeasibility study[…]

Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) has awarded a 5 year mining services contract to a joint venture between Bothakga Burrow, a local citizen owned company, and Basil Read Mining, the South African based company, for the development of an open cast coal mining operation at the MCM, Motheo project. The BR-BB (JV) mining contract was signed[…]

Aris Gold Corporation says it has taken several key steps in advancing the Lower Mine project at the Marmato Mine in Colombia. This includes following the completion of a competitive tender process the awarding of the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract to Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering with extensive experience[…]

Perenti has announced that its subsidiary, leading hard-rock underground contract miner Barminco, has received a Letter of Intent from Newcrest Mining Ltd for the development of an underground exploration decline at the gold-copper Red Chris Project in British Columbia, Canada. The Red Chris Project is a 70:30 joint venture partnership between Newcrest and Imperial Metals[…]

Roxgold Inc has announced the results of the Feasibility Study and Mineral Reserve estimate for the high-grade Séguéla Gold Project in Côte d’Ivoire which it says confirms robust economics for the development of an open-pit mining operation at Séguéla, targeting a series of open-pit mines at Antenna, Koula, Ancien, Agouti and Boulder deposits that will[…]

London listed NQ Minerals PLC says that haulage of gold bearing material from the Beaconsfield Wetlands environmental cleanup area to the Beaconsfield gold processing plant has now commenced. NQ Minerals Chairman, David Lenigas, comments: “We now have a fleet of 6 trucks moving a significant amount of gold bearing material from the Wetland area, located[…]

Lycopodium Minerals Africa Ltd, part of Australia’s Lycopodium Ltd, has been awarded the contract to provide Engineering and Procurement Management (EPM) services for Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd’s Ahafo North Project. The Ahafo Gold Mine is located approximately 380 km northwest of Ghana’s national capital city of Accra. It is a greenfield development some 30 km[…]