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The feasibility study on Bluestone Resources Cerro Blanco gold asset in Guatemala has indicated the project has, at least, an eight-year mine life ahead of it. The study, completed by a consortium of independent consultants led by JDS Energy & Mining, shows average output of 113,000 oz/y at an all-in sustaining cost of $579/oz and[…]

Gold Road Resources and Gold Fields’ jointly-owned Gruyere gold project in Western Australia is on track to pour first gold in the June quarter, the companies said in a construction and commissioning update this week. Construction of the project, around 200 km east of Laverton in WA, was 91.2% complete as of January 18, 2019,[…]

Lucara Diamond Corp has provided an update on the ongoing Feasibility Study for a potential underground operation at the company’s 100% owned and operated Karowe Diamond Mine located in the Republic of Botswana. In 2018, following the release of a positive Preliminary Economic Assessment, the company embarked on a $29 million technical program to support[…]

Cornwall Council has voted overwhelmingly in support of a £1 million ($1.3 million) investment into Strongbow Exploration, according to the tin-focused company. The news follows a press release late last year that stated the council had voted unanimously in favour of the proposed investment, subject to Strongbow adding a dual listing on the London’s AIM[…]

NRW Holdings has been awarded a bulk earthworks contract at Rio Tinto’s new ‘Intelligent Mine’, Koodaideri, in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The A$65 million ($46 million) work of works included bulk earthworks and drainage, the ASX-listed contractor said, adding that it was expected to run for 11 months, commencing on site in April. Koodaideri[…]

Emirates Global Aluminium has loaded the first batch of bauxite from its under-construction Guinea mining project, with the tonnage travelling from its subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corp’s (GAC) mine to the coast. Emirates, the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, said the 80-wagon train carried some 6,800 t of bauxite ore from[…]

Sirius Minerals has unveiled the first of its 1,800 t tunnel boring machines (TBM) that will construct the company’s underground mineral transportation tunnel between Whitby and Teesside. The 225 m long machine is undergoing final checks in Germany before being shipped to Teesside in the coming weeks, where it will be reassembled and start tunnelling[…]

Sheffield Resources has secured a 15-year agreement with Woodside Energy and Energy Developments Pty Ltd (EDL) for the supply and delivery of 1,950 TJ/y of liquified natural gas (LNG) to its Thunderbird mineral sands project in northern Western Australia. LNG will be supplied from Woodside’s Pluto LNG truck loading facility, near Karratha in Western Australia[…]

GR Engineering Services has entered into an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Tellus Holdings Ltd for its Sandy Ridge kaolin project in Western Australia. Tellus, a public unlisted infrastructure development company in the business of developing geological repositories that provide waste storage, recovery and permanent isolation solutions and complementary salt and clay products,[…]

Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction, has received approval from Teck to proceed with the expansion of the Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile, comprising a143,000 tonnes-per-day copper concentrator, a high-capacity desalination plant, and a 165-km water supply pipeline. The Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 project (QB2) is located in the northern Chilean[…]