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NEPEAN Mining is to design and deliver certain pieces of key equipment and infrastructure for Fitzroy Australia Resources’ Ironbark No. 1 coal mine in Queensland, Australia, the company has confirmed. NEPEAN and Fitzroy will execute the project as an integrated project team in two phases: 1. The accelerated design and development, and; 2. The acquisition,[…]

Pioneer Aerial Surveys Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Global UAV Technologies Ltd, a diversified and vertically integrated drone technology company, has secured a UAV-MAG™ survey contract in Brazil with the potential for significant survey expansion. This survey marks the first services contract in Brazil for Pioneer Aerial and with this new contract Pioneer Aerial[…]

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp has received its Type A Water License from the Nunavut Water Board (NWB) for the company’s 100% owned Back River gold project in Nunavut, Canada. Receipt of the Type A Water License represents a key step in the environmental permitting process and will enable activities at site including mine construction[…]

S&P Global Market Intelligence report highlights global nonferrous exploration budgets increased for the second consecutive year, up 19% year-over-year. Key takeaways: •Global nonferrous exploration budget increased 19% to $10.1 billion •Junior exploration companies budgets increased by 35% •Number of active exploration companies increased for first time since 2012 — up 8% to 1,651 •Cobalt &[…]

Karnalyte Resources Inc has reported its financial results and operational and corporate highlights for the third quarter ended September 30, 2018, provided an update on the status of its Wynyard potash project and Proteos nitrogen project. Highlights: •Actively executing strategic plan to diversify into two fertilizer product lines – potash and nitrogen •Potash price environment[…]

FLSmidth has been chosen as the supplier of an acid-bake rotary kiln to the Hastings Technology Metals Yangibana rare earths project in Australia. FLSmidth will design and supply the kiln and provide technical assistance for this essential component in rare earths processing. The acid-bake rotary kiln incorporates concentrate mixing and feeding equipment, directs waste gas[…]

Exploration drilling at the Kamoa North prospect area, on the 397-km2 Kamoa-Kakula mining licence, approximately 25 km west of the mining centre of Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has successfully delineated two new, continuous corridors of shallow copper mineralization containing zones of thick, high-grade copper. The newly delineated copper corridors occur on[…]

Rock Tech Lithium Inc reports that an NI 43-101 Technical Report completed by DMT GmbH has been filed on SEDAR. The Technical Report, a PEA, assesses the economic potential at Rock Tech’s flagship 100%-owned Georgia Lake lithium property in the Thunder Bay Mining District of northwest Ontario, Canada. The results of the PEA include a[…]

Sheffield Resources has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the building of a 7.5 Mt/y mineral processing plant and associated facilities at its Thunderbird mineral sands project in Western Australia to GR Engineering Services. The contract sum is around A$366.3 million ($264 million) with commencement of work subject to GR Engineering being[…]

Sirius Minerals has varied its existing mineral transport system (MTS) tunnelling contract with STRABAG AG to include the engineering, procurement and construction of the fit-out of the system at its polyhalite project in Yorkshire, England. The MTS fit-out scope includes the fit-out of the MTS conveyor, the maintenance railway, electrical and communications infrastructure, and all[…]