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Capricorn Metals says it has entered into agreements with APA Group for the transportation of gas from the Goldfields Gas Pipeline (GGP) to the Karlawinda gold project, in Western Australia. As part of the agreement, APA will also build, own and operate the lateral pipeline that links the GGP to Karlawinda. It is expected that[…]

Ucore Rare Metals’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Innovation Metals Corp (IMC), has executed a binding agreement with Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc (KPM) that will see Kingston become IMC’s long-term laboratory partner for the commercialisation of the RapidSX™ technology. The news follows a strategic update from earlier in the month when Ucore said it was evaluating various location[…]

Metso says Salares Norte, a Chile greenfield project owned by Gold Fields, has ordered three of its Vertical Plate Pressure Filters with all the ancillary equipment for dry tailings processing. The order has been booked in Metso’s June quarter orders received, with the filters expected to be commissioned in October 2022. Francois Swanepoel, Technical Manager[…]

New Gold’s New Afton gold-copper project west of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada has four general mining zones, located beneath and to the west of the Afton open pit. Current production is coming from the B1 and B2 zones (Lift 1) where there are two panel caves (west and east) in operation. Production commenced in[…]

In keeping with the Department of the Interior’s priority of providing opportunities for the sustainable and responsible development of the nation’s natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District says it is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) analysing a proposal to expand the Robinson Copper Mine in Nevada, which is operated by Robinson[…]

It is a combination of improved technology, reduced fine grind requirements and maintenance benefits that led to Los Andes Copper replacing the SAG and ball mill crushing circuit proposed in its Vizcachitas copper-molybdenum project preliminary economic assessment (PEA), with a three-stage crushing circuit that uses high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) technology in the tertiary crushing[…]

Zanaga Iron Ore says a concept study on the viability of using a floating dewatering, storage and offloading (FDSO) port facility shows the potential for a $184 million reduction in capital costs for the 12 Mt/y Stage One development at the Zanaga iron ore project in the Republic of Congo. Following an approach in 2019[…]

Australian Vanadium Ltd and Westgold Resources have signed a co-operation agreement that could see surplus water from operations at the Meekatharra asset used at the Australian Vanadium project in Western Australia. Westgold’s Meekatharra operations comprise several active and inactive mines south of Meekatharra, 25 km to the west of the Australian Vanadium project, with continuous[…]

Hecla in its Q1 2020 results says it recently reached agreement with Nevada Gold Mines to process a 30,000 ton bulk sample of Fire Creek ore at one or more of their refractory ore processing facilities. The agreement makes it possible for the company to move forward with a program to test larger scale long-hole[…]

The first large components of two double drum production winders for Slavkaliy’s Nezhinsky potash mining complex in Belarus were recently completed by Thyssen Schachtbau subsidiary OLKO-Maschinentechnik GmbH. The first two halves of the double-drum Blair machines, which each has a diameter of 7 m and a width of 4.2 m, are now being packed for[…]