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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[…]

GR Engineering Services Ltd has entered into a contract with Pantoro Ltd for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new 1 Mt/y processing plant for its fully-owned Norseman gold project. It had already received a Letter of Intent from Pantoro for these works. The contract sum is A$59.5 million. Feed for the plant[…]

Hudbay Minerals Inc has announced that the final land user agreement for its Pampacancha mine has been completed and Hudbay now has full access to the site to begin pit development activities. “We are very pleased to have completed the final land user agreements at Pampacancha and we remain on track for first production in[…]

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have commenced building a rock cavern storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen gas on a pilot scale next to the HYBRIT pilot facility for direct reduced iron in Luleå, northern Sweden. This is an important step in the development of a fossil-free value chain for fossil-free steel, the companies said, with the[…]

Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd’s newly filed 2021 Detour Lake Technical Report includes a new life-of-mine plan (2021 LOMP) for the operation in Ontario under which production is expected to average 680,000-720,000 oz from 2021-2024, before increasing to 800,000 oz in 2025. Production would then decline for three years during a period of increased stripping before[…]

Evolution Mining says it is embarking on a prefeasibility study to further expand its Cowal open-pit mine as part of a plan to build towards 350,000 oz/y of sustainable, reliable, low-cost gold production from the New South Wales operation. Currently on the E42 stage H cutback, Evolution said during a recent site visit that there[…]

Vital Metals Ltd has announced the commencement of mining operations at its Nechalacho rare earths project in Northwest Territories, Canada with the mining fleet mobilising this week. Mining contractor Det’on Cho Nahanni Construction will commence operations at Nechalacho’s North T Zone within days following its mobilisation via the private Nechalacho ice road which is a[…]