Archives: Precious metals

Hummingbird Resources has announced the first gold pour at the Kouroussa gold mine in Guinea, achieving the milestone ahead of the end of June quarter schedule and on budget. Commissioning at Kouroussa commenced in early May 2023 and, having achieved first gold pour, the mine is now expected to ramp up to commercial production during[…]

Metso says it has signed a two-year Life Cycle Services (LCS) contract with Ma’aden’s Base Metals and New Minerals company’s new gold processing plant at the Mansourah & Massarah site in Saudi Arabia. Metso will support the customer in commissioning, ramping up and optimising the new greenfield site, covering both maintenance and plant operations, it[…]

Metso broke ground on its first polymer filter plate factory globally, in Irapuato, in the central region of Mexico, on May 26. The filter plate factory it says will offer state-of-the-art production process efficiency, quality, and service capability to support customers’ sustainability and operative targets. The approximately €28 million investment was announced in September 2022. In[…]

Orexplore Technologies Limited, a mineral scanning technology company focused on the global mining and metals sector, says it has entered the South American market with a commercial field deployment for Gold Fields at its’ Salares Norte project in Chile. Salares Norte is a high-grade, epithermal gold-silver, open-pit deposit in the High Andes, Atacama Region, of[…]

The world’s largest zero-emission haul truck, based on a Komatsu 930E and designed and built by First Mode in partnership with Anglo American, has successfully completed its mission to demonstrate the potential of zero emission haulage after one full year of operational trials. The proof-of-concept mining truck is a critical technology in heavy industry’s efforts[…]

Following completion of due diligence, Newmont says it has entered into a binding Scheme Implementation Deed (SID) under which Newmont will acquire 100% of the issued share capital in Newcrest by way of an Australian court-approved Scheme of Arrangement. This circa-$18 billion deal will result in Newmont – already the largest gold miner by production[…]

Gold Fields will soon begin an autonomous truck trial at its Granny Smith underground mine in Western Australia, leveraging the robotic smarts of Universal Field Robots (UFR) and an existing Epiroc Minetruck MT65 it has within its fleet. In the company’s recently released annual results, Gold Fields stated it was developing its first underground automated[…]

Two technology providers in Finland are developing a water treatment solution that will be able to selectively recover metals from mining-impacted waters. The companies Weeefiner and Sensmet are collaborating to tackle the water treatment challenges posed by end-of-life mining sites, whilst also salvaging some of the valuable materials that mine waters frequently contain. The development[…]

Two of the largest mining companies in the world, Codelco and BHP, are to collaborate with the objective of exchanging information in areas of mutual interest, such as the electrification of mining activities, the supply of desalinated water, stability and monitoring of tailings deposits, and the development of technologies for the decarbonisation of processes, among[…]

Metso has signed an agreement for the supply of metallic mill linings for SAG mills and Megaliner™ mill linings for ball mills to a copper and gold mine in South-East Asia. It says the customer selected Metso’s metallic mill lining solutions after a performance test. In the test, Metso’s linings achieved better grinding efficiency, higher[…]