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Comet Resources has launched a scoping study into building a pilot plant to test a potential new nickel processing breakthrough, Director Hugh Morgan said on the final day of the Paydirt 2019 Africa Downunder mining conference in Perth, Australia. The company’s Titan nickel project, in Nigeria, is one of those rare discoveries where the metal[…]

The big two global giants in autonomous mining truck solutions continue to battle it out in chasing new contracts, especially for greenfield mines that offer a chance to supply more profitable “new” autonomous fleets as opposed to retrofitting autonomous capability onto existing fleets. The main battle grounds remain Australian iron ore in Western Australia’s Pilbara[…]

The Weir Group says it has been awarded a £100 million ($123 million) order to provide industry-leading energy saving solutions to the Iron Bridge magnetite project, a joint venture between Fortescue Metals Group and Formosa Steel IB. The order, which includes a range of Weir crushing and pump equipment including Enduron® high pressure grinding rolls[…]

Inception Mining says its Honduran subcontractor, Equipos, Desarrollos, e Inversiones S de RL (EDI), has moved onsite to its Clavo Rico gold project, in Honduras, and expects a start up of its crushing circuit no later than October 30. EDI says it has already begun various operations within the mine site such as road expansion,[…]

GR Engineering Services looks like being rewarded for all of its hard work in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for Geopacific Resources’ Woodlark gold project. The ASX-listed mine developer says it has issued GR Engineering with an EPC letter of intent for the 2.4 Mt/y carbon in leach[…]

Newmont Goldcorp says the Ahafo Mill Expansion (AME) project in Ghana has successfully processed its first ore and is on track to achieve commercial production in the December quarter of 2019. The mill expansion will increase average annual gold production at the Ahafo mine by between 75,000-100,000 oz for the first five years, beginning in[…]

Australian Vanadium has announced the selection of Metso for the next phase of definitive feasibility study pilot testing at its Australian Vanadium project. Metso was chosen because of its world-renowned expertise in Grate Kiln (GK) processing solutions, the ASX-listed company said. “AVL and Metso are committed to working together to develop an improved thermal processing[…]

African Gold Group has announced that SENET (Pty) Ltd has been awarded the contract to deliver an updated definitive feasibility study for the Kobada Gold Project in Mali. The company pointed out that SENET is one of the leading project management and engineering firms in the field of mineral processing in Africa. “It has delivered[…]

Asiamet has announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Nonferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering and Construction Co Ltd (China NFC), a subsidiary of China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co Ltd for value engineering and Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) Services for the BKM heap leach and SX-EW copper project located in[…]

Rio Tinto has awarded Pilbara Aboriginal businesses with more than A$60 million ($41 million) of work associated with the development of its 43 Mt/y Koodaideri iron ore development in Western Australia. The most significant package of work awarded to date has been secured by White Springs, which will supply more than 600,000 t of ballast[…]