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Rio Tinto has chosen FLSmidth to supply key minerals handling equipment for the company’s Koodaideri iron ore project in Western Australia, the mining OEM says. The contract is a turnkey agreement for the design, supply, installation and commissioning for the new greenfield iron ore mine. “FLSmidth will provide the products and know-how that will be[…]

Global design firm Stantec has been selected to review and evaluate Eti Bakir’s copper mining facility in Siirt Province, Turkey. The copper mine has operated as an open pit facility for several years. Stantec’s work will assist Eti Bakir, part of one of Turkey’s largest mining and metallurgy companies, to transition to an underground mining operation.[…]

GIW Industries says it is to deliver four MDX 600 cyclone feed pumps to Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project in Peru. GIW, a subsidiary of KSB, won the order based on the reputation of its centrifugal slurry pumps and the firm’s commitment to customer support, it said. “Decades of experience in slurry transport means GIW[…]

Fortescue Metals Group has approved the $2.6 billion Iron Bridge Magnetite project in Western Australia, which, the company says, will deliver 22 Mt/y of high-grade 67% Fe concentrate production by mid-2022. FMG and its joint venture partner Formosa Steel IB approved the development of Stage 2 of the project, following a $500 million investment in[…]

In a review of exploration and development activities in 2018, Ivanhoe Mines has gone into some detail on developments at Shaft 2 at the Platreef PGM-nickel-copper-gold project on the northern limb of South Africa’s Bushveld Complex. This follows a project update issued just after the Mining Indaba event in February. Shaft 1, expected to reach[…]

ASX-listed Macmahon Holdings says it has been issued a Notice of Award by AngloGold Ashanti, its client at the Tropicana gold mine in Western Australia, for the development of the new Boston Shaker underground mine. Tropicana, a joint venture between AngloGold (70% and manager) and Independence Group (IGO, 30%), is already Macmahon’s largest mining contract[…]

B2Gold’s plan to expand its Fekola gold mine, in Mali, by 1.5 Mt/y could see an up to $56 million investment in additional excavators, trucks, drills, support equipment and wheel loaders, according to the latest project economic study. The expansion study preliminary economic analysis showed the company could increase throughput to 7.5 Mt/y, from the[…]

Eurasia Mining says it has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, with an associated mine finance package, for its Monchetundra PGM-gold-copper-nickel project, in Russia. The contract with China’s Sinosteel follows ongoing discussions between the two parties, which have been taking place since issue of the mining permit for a circa-2 Moz (two platinum[…]

Mineral Commodities’ wholly-owned subsidiary, MRC Graphite, says it has executed a professional services agreement with Mondium to undertake early contractor involvement (ECI) and front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Munglinup graphite project, in Western Australia. MRC Graphite is in the final stages of completing a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for Munglinup, which will provide[…]

LKAB, one of five companies invested in the Sustainable Underground Mining project (SUM), says it is hoping to move into test mode in 2020 with a number of projects aimed at making future mines carbon dioxide-free, digitalised and autonomous. SUM has four sub-projects that are closely interconnected. In one of the sub-projects, autonomous, smart and[…]