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Newcrest Mining Ltd has made two major announcements with regard to future mine development and expansion at its Telfer and Cadia gold operations – located in Western Australia and New South Wales, respectively. Most recently it has announced that the Board has approved progression of the Cadia PC1-2 Feasibility Study to the Execution Stage; which[…]

Metso Outotec says it will deliver sustainable filtration technology for dry stacking of tailings to Eldorado Gold’s Hellas Gold Skouries copper-gold concentrator project in northern Greece. Metso Outotec’s scope of delivery consists of the engineering, manufacturing and supply of several Planet Positive Larox® FFP3512 filters as well as installation and commissioning advisory services. The fully[…]

Endeavour Mining has launched the construction of its 80%-owned Lafigué project on the Fetekro property in Côte d’Ivoire, following completion of a definitive feasibility study that outlined a project able to produce approximately 200,000 oz/y at an all-in sustaining cost of $871/oz over its initial 12.8-year mine life. Based on the DFS recommendation, an upsized[…]

Today, Vale Canada Ltd officially opened the initial phase of its C$945 million Copper Cliff Complex South Mine Project in Sudbury, Ontario. “The first phase of the Copper Cliff Mine Complex South Project enhances our supply of low-carbon nickel and other critical minerals and adds to the long-term sustainability of our Sudbury operations,” said Deshnee[…]

For 15 years, Norsk Hydro-owned Hydro Paragominas has actively contributed to the economic and social development of the municipality of Paragominas and intends to continue with its sustainable bauxite mining operations in the region. The Miltônia 5 (M5) project represents this objective: an investment of approximately BRL 590 million (just under US$114 million) in a[…]

Global Atomic Corporation has announced the signing of Development Consultants Private Ld (DCPL) of Kolkata, India, and Lycopodium Minerals Canada Ltd to commence the basic and detailed engineering, procurement and Project Management of the Dasa Mine processing plant in the Republic of Niger. These engineering and project delivery firms were selected to form an Integrated[…]

The Venetia Underground Project (VUP) is at the heart of diamond major De Beers’ future mining strategy in South Africa – it will extend production at Venetia to at least 2046, and will allow the company to fully access both the K01 and K02 kimberlites at depth. VUP is set to deliver between 4.5 and[…]

Italian company Bedeschi says it is progressing well with its project to help extend the existing heap leaching pad in Arlit, Niger on behalf of uranium mining company SOMAIR, a subsidiary of the ORANO group headquartered in France. Bedeschi is in charge of carrying out the engineering work and the mechanical and electrical supply of[…]

ABB is installing its enterprise-grade digital platform ABB Ability™ Genix Industrial Analytics and AI Suite to enable Gold Fields’ Salares Norte project in Chile to drive efficient, sustainable and remote operations. The gold and silver mine is located in the Atacama Desert, among the highest peaks of the Andes mountain range with elevations of between[…]

In July 2022, Komatsu Middle East and Karachi-based engineering firm Jaffer Brothers completed the assembly of the first of a new fleet of Komatsu 91 t HD785-7 haulers, the largest mining trucks introduced to date in Pakistan. The trucks have been imported for Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC)’s Thar Block 2 Coalfield Project as[…]