Archives: Precious metals

In its 2022 Investor Day presentation on May 17, Caterpillar Inc through Group President of Resource Industries – Denise Johnson – gave more insight than before on the timeline for development and introduction of its battery electric zero emissions mining trucks. She mentioned first of course the zero emissions machine agreements that have been made[…]

Community and government stakeholders recently visited Lane Xang Minerals Ltd’s (LXML) Sepon gold mine to open the first modern underground mine in Lao PDR (Laos). “Sepon has thousands of years of mining history,” said Paul Harris, LXML General Manager. “This new development will use modern underground mining equipment, and advanced mining techniques, to transfer knowledge[…]

In early 2019, a large Zimbabwean platinum group metals mining company identified an urgent need to engage with an OEM service partner capable of producing a purpose-built, trackless mining machine, to safely assist with geotechnical inspections, as well as providing for mechanised underground scaling, rock breaking and clearing functions. With some 50 years’ experience in[…]

Sibanye-Stillwater is to invest $17 million in OptiMine® Collision Avoidance System (CAS) technology to reduce accidents, injuries and fatalities at its Stillwater PGM underground mining operations in Montana, USA, Newtrax says. Newtrax and Sibanye-Stillwater have been working together since 2017 on various digitalisation projects to improve safety and productivity at Stillwater. OptiMine increases safety and[…]

New South Wales-based Batt Mobile Equipment (BME) has announced the release of its first BIT120, a 20 t Integrated Tool Carrier battery-electric retrofit system. The first machine is being sent to Gold Fields’ St Ives mining operation in Western Australia on a 12-month hire agreement. The company is also in the middle of another two[…]

In its just released Q1 2022 report, Torex Gold says with the Technical Report for its Morelos Complex in Mexico released, “our focus has shifted to bringing Media Luna into production on time and on budget.” The Technical Report provides a life of mine plan for the El Limón Guajes Mine Complex (ELG Mine Complex)[…]

At Agnico Eagle’s Detour Lake gold operation in northeastern Ontario, ~300 km northeast of Timmins, an upgrade of the 230 kV main substation is planned to improve the power quality at the mine. In addition, the upgrade the miner says will improve the site readiness for future power expansion for projects such as a planned[…]

Ivanhoe Mines Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland and President, Marna Cloete, announced at the African Mining Indaba Conference the completion of the Shaft 1 production changeover at the company’s tier-one Platreef palladium, rhodium, nickel, platinum, copper and gold project in South Africa, operated by Ivanplats. Shaft 1 will serve as Platreef’s initial production shaft and is[…]

Sandvik has signed an agreement to acquire the mining related business of Schenck Process Group (SP Mining). SP Mining is one of the market leaders in screening, feeding and screening media solutions in the industry. The company will be reported in Stationary Crushing and Screening, a division in Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions (SRP). “I am[…]

The First Quantum Minerals Ltd Board of Directors has signed off on the S3 Expansion at the Kansanshi mine and the Enterprise nickel project, both in Zambia. The approval will lead to work on both projects starting immediately, with the company re-commencing detailed engineering works for the S3 Expansion to determine purchase orders for key[…]