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Queensland looks like adding a new coking coal mine to its ranks after the state government approved mining leases for Pembroke Resources’ Olive Downs project. The granting of the leases follows approvals from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in early 2020, and the grant[…]

Rio2 Ltd has announced that it has taken another key step towards the development of its Fenix gold project in Chile by selecting the following lead contractors: Process plant/site infrastructure construction contractor – HLC Ingeniería y Construcción Leach pad and civil design contractor – Anddes Asociados SAC Civil earthmoving and construction contractor – STRACON SA[…]

Australian Potash says it has finalised the front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of Australia’s first high penetration renewable power solution on a greenfield sulphate of potash (SOP) minerals project development. The study outlined a base case renewable power penetration rate of 53% with potential to rise to 87%,[…]

Ore sorting test work from TOMRA Sorting Australia has Vimy Resources thinking about higher grades, lower capital and operating costs, and the production of precious metals at its majority-owned Angulari uranium-gold deposit in Australia’s Northern Territory. The ASX-listed company, which has defined an inferred mineral resource estimate of 26 Mlbs of U3O8 (0.91 Mt at[…]

Taseko Mines prospects of opening the US’ next commercial in-situ recovery (ISR) copper project have been strengthened following a recent hearing held by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ). At the public hearing, which came shortly after the ADEQ issued the company with a draft Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) for its commercial ISR project,[…]

Ivanhoe Mines Co-Chairs Robert Friedland and Yufeng “Miles” Sun say that the Kamoa-Kakula Copper JV has agreed to immediately proceed with orders for the long lead time equipment for the second, 3.8 Mt/y concentrator module at the Kakula mine in the DRC, which will double the mine’s processing capacity from 3.8 Mt/y to 7.6 Mt/y.[…]

WestStar Industrial Ltd’s engineering contractor business, Alltype Engineering, is to help build an iron ore mine plant at the Rio Tinto-owned Koodaideri project in the Pilbara of Western Australia, thanks to a contract award from Laing O’Rourke. The Phase 1 Structural, Mechanical, and Piping package for the mine plant comes with a value of around[…]

With funding now materially advanced and board approval in place, Mincor says it has issued a “Notice to Proceed” to its underground mining contractor, Pit N Portal, to start work at the Kambalda Nickel Operations in Western Australia. In line with the binding contract executed in May 2020, Pit N Portal has 60 days to[…]

Calidus Resources has started construction ahead of schedule at its Warrawoona project, as well as made two key appointments to deliver on its gold mine development in Western Australia. It has appointed Macmahon Holdings as the preferred mining contractor for the project, while GR Engineering Services has been awarded preferred tenderer status for the process[…]

Capstone Mining’s 70%-owned subsidiary Minera Santo Domingo (MSD) has entered into an agreement that could see it slash some $400 million off the capital cost for building its Santo Domingo copper-iron-gold project, in Chile’s Region III, by offloading the port and concentrate transport infrastructure development to another company. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Puerto[…]