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Copper Mountain Mining Corporation has announced a new life of mine plan, which includes a proposed mill expansion to 65,000 t per day, for its 75%-owned Copper Mountain mine, located in southern British Columbia. The new life of mine plan increases Copper Mountain’s after-tax NPV by over 60% to $1 billion, on higher annual production[…]

Metalloinvest, a leading global iron ore and HBI producer and supplier, and a major regional producer of high-quality steel, has formally started up its high angle conveyor for transporting ore from the open pit iron ore mine Andrey Varichev Mikhailovsky GOK (renamed from Mikhailovsky GOK to honour the former Metalloinvest CEO who passed away recently).[…]

First Quantum Minerals’ majority-owned Cobre Las Cruces mine looks to have pushed out production for at least another year after devising a way to reprocess tailings at the copper operation in Spain. A method was developed to reprocess tailings from already mined material, which is expected to yield around 22,000 t of copper over the[…]

Australian Vanadium is making plans to incorporate “green hydrogen” into its mine operations in Western Australia as part of a carbon emission reduction strategy. Vincent Algar, Managing Director of Australian Vanadium, thinks the use of green hydrogen could allow the company to reduce its carbon footprint and leverage both the economical and environmental benefits of[…]

After a technical-economic analysis, adjustments in the designs and the performance of the equipment and good results from the Chuquicamata open pit copper mine, owner and operator Codelco has defined that it will extend the exploitation phase of the deposit for another year. The original program considered finalising the exploitation of the pit in December[…]

Technology Metals Australia (TMT) says it has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with APA Group under which TMT and APA have agreed to investigate the provision of gas transportation services along a new gas pipeline to be developed by APA from the south to supply gas to the Gabanintha vanadium project, in[…]

BHP has agreed to invest another $272 million in the Jansen Stage 1 potash project in Saskatchewan, Canada, following challenges encountered with placement of the shaft lining and more recent impacts from the company’s COVID-19 response plan. Up until this point, BHP had committed to spending $2.7 billion on the project. BHP said in its[…]

The East Manganese project in the Northern Cape of South Africa has been granted a water use licence, paving the way for mining operations to commence soon. Menar’s first manganese asset located near Hotazel, the R250 million ($15.1 million) project was granted environmental authorisations in February 2019, a mining right in August 2019 and water[…]

Corvus Gold has announced the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Mother Lode project (MLP) in southwest Nevada, USA. The study outlines a project able to produce 170,980 oz/y of gold and 79,600 oz/y of silver through a combination of heap leaching and biological oxidation (BIOX). Based off measured and indicated resources[…]

Primero Group says it has recently booked new business totalling some A$55 million ($39 million) with Fortescue Metals Group, Rio Tinto and the Hazer Group as it continues to build out its 2021 financial year contracted order book. First, it has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Non-Process Infrastructure (NPI) at[…]