Archives: Mining project news

Avalon Advanced Materials has moved a step closer to incorporating sensor-based ore sorting into its plans at the East Kemptville tin project in Nova Scotia, Canada, after the latest testwork came back with positive results. As recently as July, the company said ore-sorting technology had the potential to upgrade the feed material to the processing[…]

Myanmar Metals’ Baldwin polymetallic project looks like having at least 13 years of operating life in it, according to a scoping study carried out by CSA Global. The study, which featured the China Pit as a starter operation, outlined a 1.8 Mt/y operation producing some 1.6 Mt of lead-silver-copper concentrate and 994,000 t of zinc[…]

In Australia, the untapped exploration potential of PNX Metals’ large Northern Territory tenement holding has recently been highlighted by a respected mining analyst as the company seeks to enhance the economics of its flagship Hayes Creek zinc polymetallic project. The company completed a PFS on Hayes Creek, 170 km south of Darwin in the Pine[…]

Perth-based Pioneer Resources has started mining its Sinclair operation in Australia, bringing online the country’s first commercial caesium mine. Extraction of overburden from the upper reaches of the Sinclair stage one pit is underway, which will provide access to the caesium mineral pollucite, located some 40 m below surface. While the company’s primary focus for[…]

Nord Gold has formally launched its Gross gold mine in Yakutia, Russia, with the operation set to take the company beyond the 1 Moz/y production mark when fully ramped up. The mine opening ceremony was launched during the Eastern Economic Forum, with company executives joined by Dmitry Kobylkin, the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment[…]

Murchison Minerals has the results of the updated Mineral Resource estimate for the Brabant-McKenzie deposit located in north-central Saskatchewan, Canada. The September 4, 2018 Mineral Resource Estimate was performed by Finley Bakker Consulting and the new estimate includes the addition of 19 new diamond drill holes totalling 9,004 m which were completed between January and[…]

Fluor is driving digital transformation with an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to monitor the status of global projects and drive significant project cost savings. Fluor Corp and IBM have announced the use of AI-based systems to predict, monitor and measure the status of EPC megaprojects from inception to completion. Fluor’ says it “extensive engineering, fabrication, construction[…]

Boreal Metals Corp has engaged Arctic Drilling AB to conduct exploratory diamond drilling at Burfjord in Norway.  Boreal is mobilising to commence a 1,000 m reconnaissance drill program in late September and will test a variety of shallow drill targets across the property position.  The drill targets include multiple zones highlighted by Induced Polarisation geophysical[…]

W Resources is on course to hit its production goal at the La Parrilla tungsten project in the southwest of Spain, with crushing equipment arriving on site. In a project update, the company said overall La Parrilla construction had accelerated during the summer months with construction completion of the crusher, jig and mill on schedule[…]

The preliminary economic assessment on Nevada Copper’s Pumpkin Hollow open-pit project has given the company food for thought, just as it starts construction on the underground mine. Golder Associates and Sedgman Canada produced the PEA, which showed a 37,000 t/d (short) open-pit mine producing 80,286 t/y of payable copper at a C1 cash cost of[…]