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Mining and exploration investment company CENTAR Ltd and its operating company Afghan Gold and Minerals Co (AGMC) has signed contracts with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to develop two sites in Balkhab and Badakhshan with potentially significant copper and gold deposits. Together, these contracts represent the largest mining exploration effort in the[…]

Southern Gold Ltd has completed the first phase of systematic underground channel sampling at its Deokon gold project in the central-southwest of South Korea under its strategy to commence work quickly on newly acquired tenure. Access discussions with the land-owner were approved and risk assessments conducted within three-weeks of tenement Jeonju 70 being granted. Underground[…]

The Bolivian state-owned tin mining company, Empresa Minera Huanuni (EMH), is to start trial operations at the Huanuni mine’s Lucianita processing plant in late-October, according to local news sources, the International Tin Association reports. The 3,000 t/d Lucianita plant was built by Chinese contractor Vicstar Union Engineering under a $50 million contract awarded in 2011[…]

The ITA’s 14th annual survey of tin users gathered data from tin users worldwide between June and August 2018, showing robust growth of 4% in 2017 but much weaker tin use growth forecasts in 2018. Tin use growth in China has stalled though elsewhere the picture is more positive. A total of 109 companies took[…]

Much of the talk at Roskill’s Tantalum 2018 conference, held in London last week, was focussed on industry efforts to improve responsible sourcing of raw material tantalum. It was made clear by several speakers that tantalum is still very much a conflict mineral, defined as ‘minerals mined in conditions of armed conflict and human rights[…]

Poseidon nickel has signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) with two exploration companies in Western Australia to toll-treat nickel ores. This follows Poseidon’s recent feasibility study which confirmed that the re-start of its own Silver Swan mine and Black Swan mine and concentrator were economic. The MOUs were signed with exploration companies Sulphide X and Estrella[…]

Western Australia-based contractor SMS Mining Services has been named as the preferred mining contractor for both Capricorn Metals’ Karlawinda gold project near Newman and Adaman Resources’ Kirkalocka gold project near Mt Magnet. The two contracts are worth A$640 million combined – A$420 million ($301 million) for Karlawinda and A$220 million for Kirkalocka – and push[…]

IFG Metals & Mining has built on its existing relationship with Uzbekistan’s geology and mineral resources committee and signed an agreement giving it exclusive rights to carry out feasibility studies and, if proven successful, exploit seven tungsten deposits in Uzbekistan. The aim of the $300 million long-term investment is to create a cluster for tungsten[…]

Americas Silver Corp and Pershing Gold Corp have entered into a definitive agreement to complete a business combination and create a low-cost, precious metal growth company in the Americas. This embraces a diversified portfolio of precious metal assets in the Americas and combines two producing polymetallic mines in Mexico and Idaho that are expected to[…]

After extensive test work and design, mineral processing specialist Multotec Group is commissioning a full scale DeSALx® plant to treat waste water from a flue gas desulphurisation scrubber, at a minerals processing plant in Oman in the Middle East. According to Carien Spagnuolo, Senior Process Engineer at Multotec Process Equipment, the leading edge DeSALx® technology[…]