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According to a report in India’s Business Standard, Hindustan Copper is focusing on re-opening its closed mines and expand existing ones in its quest to increase ore production five times from the current level of 4.1 Mt/y to 20 Mt/y by 2025. The company, which is also keen on opening new mines, is expected to[…]

First Ore-Mining Company and ZYFRA have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that could see the Pavlovskoye lead-zinc deposit deploy artificial intelligence-based solutions for mining and processing operations. Pavlovskoye is set to become the most northerly mine in Russia, once First-Ore, a Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corp division, moves ahead with development. It is scheduled[…]

Cleveland-Cliffs says it will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the expansion at its Northshore Mining subsidiary, in Silver Bay, Minnesota, US, on August 7, as the $100 million upgrade nears completion. The company will be celebrating the startup of the new production equipment, including supporting infrastructure, which will be completed on schedule and within[…]

The latest feasibility study on RNC Minerals’ jointly-owned Dumont nickel-cobalt asset in Quebec, Canada, has identified the potential for both electrification and automation of the open-pit haulage fleet at the project. The DFS, completed by Ausenco, showed that initial nickel production at Dumont could come in at 33,000 t/y, before ramping up to 50,000 t/y[…]

SolGold has laid out plans to develop a mine at its majority-owned Alpala copper-gold-silver deposit, in northern Ecuador, that will use block cave mining methods applied over several caves designed on two vertically extensive lifts. The preliminary economic assessment on Alpala estimated a pre-production capital expenditure of $2.4-2.8 billion for a mine that could produce[…]

TNG has engaged construction group McMahon Services to progress the program of work for the non-process infrastructure (NPI) requirements for its flagship 100%-owned Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project, in the Northern Territory of Australia. The contract encompasses the NPI at both the Mount Peake mine site, located 235 km north of Alice Springs, and the Darwin[…]

Fenix Resources says it has formed a strategic alliance with trucking and logistics company, Minehaul Pty Ltd, in a move seen as a significant step towards the development of its Iron Ridge project in the Mid-West region of Western Australia. The alliance will see Fenix and Minehaul form a new 50/50 joint venture company, to[…]

Project developer Myanmar Metals says that based on a positive PFS, Phase 1 of mining operations at Bawdwin, a 13 year Starter Pit, will set Bawdwin up to be a world leading producer of lead and silver as well as a significant zinc producer. Some 24.7 Mt of mineralised material will be mined and processed,[…]

Australia mining and construction firm, BGC Contracting has been awarded a A$24 million ($16.9 million) contract to deliver bulk earthworks and roads at Fortescue Metals Group’s A$1.7 billion Eliwana iron ore project, 90 km west-northwest of Tom Price, in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The six-month project is underway and BGC Contracting will deliver infrastructure[…]

The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has awarded the consortium of Outotec and Larsen & Toubro with an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a greenfield mineral concentrator and gold processing plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Finland-based company says. The order, worth some €140 million ($157 million) to Outotec, is almost[…]