Archives: Mining project news

Newmont Goldcorp’s Borden development may have stolen the mine electrification limelight in the last 12-24 months in Ontario, Canada, but with this all-electric mine close to starting up, another project in the province is laying the groundwork to follow in its footsteps. The Madsen project is a former-operating underground gold mine situated in the renowned[…]

Debswana’s Orapa diamond mine in Botswana, the world‘s largest by area, will continue mining up to just beyond 2050, Orapa Letlhakane & Damtshaa (OLDM) Mines General Manager Bakani Motlhabani revealed to the country’s Weekend Post newspaper on the sidelines of the OLDM  50 Years Anniversary Celebrations in Orapa recently. Debswana 50 year’s celebrations were held[…]

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) ore sorting technology has found another fan after Fireweed Zinc reported positive results from preconcentration test work at its Macmillan Pass zinc project in the Yukon of Canada. Samples from Macmillan Pass’ Boundary Zone, a discrete bulk-tonnage, exploration target 15 km northwest of the Jason zinc-lead-silver deposit, were put through XRF, X-ray[…]

Venture Minerals’ plan to restart mining at the Riley iron ore project in Tasmania, Australia, is accelerating with the announcement that the ASX-listed company has awarded Shaw Contracting the preferred tenderer status for mining and processing works at the operation. One of Tasmania’s most experienced civil and mining contractors, Shaw previously worked with Venture when[…]

With Serabi Gold having supplied all required data for a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its Coringa gold project, in Brazil, to its independent consultants Global Resource Engineering Limited, CEO Mike Hodgson says the London- and Toronto-listed firm is now working hard on the permitting side. Permitting a mine in Brazil – in particular the[…]

A plan to incorporate infrastructure from Glencore, Newmont Goldcorp and Yamana Gold’s jointly owned Alumbrera copper-gold operation, in Argentina, into the Agua Rica copper-gold project looks like paying off after a prefeasibility study (PFS) on the project highlighted an increase in annual output over the mine’s first 10 years and lower operating costs. The three[…]

The developer of the Twin Metals project, in the Iron Range region of northeast Minnesota, USA, has announced plans to use dry stacked tailings at the underground copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold and silver asset as the company looks to eliminate the perceived risk of a dam leakage or failure. Twin Metals Minnesota (TMM), a[…]

SNC-Lavalin has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract from NEXA Resources for its majority-owned Aripuanã zinc-copper-lead project in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Montreal-based professional services and project management company will deliver EPCM services for the project out of its Belo Horizonte office, in Brazil, and will include all operations required for[…]

ASX-listed Agrimin has awarded Primero Group the engineering design contract for the process plant at the Mackay potash project, in Western Australia. With Agrimin’s process consultants at Novopro Projects having already completed the process modelling and flowsheets for the definitive feasibility study at Mackay, Primero has commenced the engineering design for the plant. A prefeasibility[…]

Australia-listed Mitchell Services has entered the drill and blast production drilling market with the award of a new contract at Adaman Resources’ Kirklalocka gold project in Western Australia. The circa-A$33 million ($23 million), five-year contract, with mining services provider SMS Innovative Mining Pty, will see Mitchell initially deploy two rigs to service the drill and[…]