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Anaconda Mining Inc announces that the site set-up phase for the 10,000 t, underground bulk sample is nearing completion at its Goldboro Gold Project in Nova Scotia, Canada. Anaconda commenced site preparation towards the end of July and to date has achieved the following milestones: Hired local engineering and support staff to execute the Goldboro[…]

Leon Faulkner, Managing Director, Environmental Copper Recovery Pty, reports that Mining3 is working with in-situ recovery (ISR) mining specialists, Environmental Copper Recovery (ECR), on a Commonwealth Government CRC-P (Cooperative Research Centre) grant which will fund a 2.5-year research program to better understand and resolve key ISR mining challenges—particularly in relation to environmental, social, and economic[…]

Australia-listed Matsa Resources has started mining the Red Dog gold deposit in Western Australia, with blasting expected to commence later this week. Red Dog is around 25 km west of the Fortitude gold mine, which Matsa conducted trial mining on earlier this year and is currently being weighed up as a full-scale operation. Matsa said[…]

Falco Resources’ recent artificial intelligence-inspired prospecting work at the Horne 5 gold project in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, has provided an example of how this technology can be successfully leveraged to increase exploration success. Following the appointment in December 2017 of Albert Mining, a leader in the use of AI, to analyse historical data in the Rouyn-Noranda[…]

The Environmental Permit for Peak Resources Ltd’s planned rare earth separation plant in the UK has been granted by the Environment Agency. The permission is a significant milestone in the development of the Ngualla rare earth project and the primary regulatory hurdle required to allow the operation of the plant in Teesside. Following the receipt[…]

The Board of Thor Mining reports the results of a scoping study for the Pilot Mountain tungsten project in Nevada, USA. Highlights: Desert Scheelite operational life of 12 years with open pit mining over 11 years and one additional year to complete processing Total Desert Scheelite forecast open pit production of 7.5 Mt Annual throughput[…]

Construction firm STRABAG and engineering group Jacobs have become the latest recipients of contracts for the Sirius Minerals’ owned North Yorkshire polyhalite project in the northeast of England. STRABAG, which had already been awarded a design and build contract for the first drive of the mineral transport system (MTS) tunnel between Wilton and Lockwood Beck,[…]

Consolidated Zinc Ltd announces it will commence mining at its Plomosas zinc-lead-silver project in northern Mexico. This follows the company entering into a processing and offtake agreement with Grupo Mexico through their nearby Santa Eulalia concentrator with the Plomosas concentrate sold and delivered to Grupo Mexico’s San Luis Potosi smelter. Mining will employ airleg stoping[…]

Maptek and iron ore producer Roy Hill are collaborating to leverage deep learning, AI and immersive technologies to accelerate orebody knowledge and inform upstream planning. As Maptek notes, “the world is facing rapid changes brought about by technology, globalisation and social values. Our personal and work lives are being increasingly disrupted, and the rate of[…]

Torex Gold Resources has completed an updated Technical Report (TR) including a life of mine plan (LOM) for its producing El Limon Guajes (ELG) mines, that has increased average annual gold production to 430,000 oz/y, from 2019 to 2023. The TR also contains an updated Media Luna PEA, with an after-tax NPV (5%) of $582[…]