Archives: Mining project news

Pensana Rare Earths PLC has announced that it has received approval for the exploitation of the Longonjo Rare Earths Project in Angola. President Lourenço has approved the company’s subsidiary Ozango Minerals SA Mining Title, renewable up to 35-years, for the mining of rare earths at the Longonjo project located near Huambo. The key fiscal terms[…]

Mag One Products Inc has announced that its Quebec-based subsidiary, Mag One Operations, has concluded a Contribution Agreement with the Government of Canada via Natural Resources Canada under its Clean Growth Program (CGP). The agreement calls for the Subsidiary to receive from CGP up to C$1,666,500 in non-repayable funding for its Front-End Engineering Design study[…]

Greenland Resources Inc says it has commenced a Phase II Optimization study that will evaluate potential improvements to the economic stature of the Malmbjerg molybdenum project in Greenland and the incorporation of a 100% owned Greenlandic company that will own the Malmbjerg license to facilitate the process of obtaining an exploitation license. During 2018 the[…]

The Nezhinsky mining and processing factory has extracted its first salt, operator IOOO Slavkaliy has announced in a statement. The report says Slavkaliy continues active mine construction work at the Nezhinsky mining and processing complex with the shaft boring roadheaders (SBR machines) Ulyana and Olga being now 567 m below the surface and having encountered[…]

New underground mining equipment has been arriving at Pure Gold Mining’s Madsen gold project in Red Lake, Ontario, with the company recently taking delivery of a DUX DT-26N articulated truck. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pure Gold has continued to progress the construction of Madsen, with Pure Gold President and CEO, Darin Labrenz,[…]

Sandfire Resources America Inc has announce that the Black Butte Copper underground mining project in Montana, USA has received a Record of Decision for its permit. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MTDEQ) released a positive Record of Decision (RoD) to grant a Mine Operating Permit to the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Tintina Montana Inc. This[…]

Galena Mining Ltd says it is progressing with the construction of Abra Base Metals Project in WA’s Mid-West with the box-cut for the underground mine completed. This work by a third-party mining contractor means that the construction by Abra Mining Pty Ltd (AMPL), the joint venture company for the project, is 9% complete. Having completed[…]

Marathon Gold has laid out plans for a new open-pit mine in Newfoundland that, it says, could become Atlantic Canada’s largest gold producer. The prefeasibility study on the Valentine gold project in central Newfoundland outlined a plan for a 12-year operation producing circa-145,000 oz/y of gold at life of mine all-in sustaining costs of $739/oz.[…]

Trafo Power Solutions recently supplied specialised transformers for the Tippler 3 project at the iron ore load-out station at the port of Saldanha Bay, in South Africa, as part of an upgrade Transnet is currently conducting at the facility. The construction of a third tippler at the Saldanha Bay port is to sustain iron ore[…]

Macmahon Holdings says its GBF underground mining services business has now finalised and signed contracts with Silver Lake Resources for additional work at the miner’s Mount Monger gold operations, in Western Australia. The contractor announced back in February that a conditional letter of intent had been received by GBF, which Macmahon acquired in 2019. Macmahon[…]