Exploration & development

Kumba has recently announced the approval of its Kapstevel South project at its Kolomela mine, South Africa, by both the company’s and Anglo American’s boards.

South32 Ltd and Trilogy Metals Inc., partners in Ambler Metals LLC, have reported the signing of the Record of Decision by the US Bureau of Land Management for the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project.

Erdene’s positive bankable feasibility study demonstrates a high-grade, shallow opencast mine with strong NPV, IRR and low initial capital investment.

Nokia has announced that Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology will deploy a Nokia 5G SA industrial-grade private wireless network at its test mine in Tampere, Finland.

IAMGOLD Corporation, with joint venture partner Sumitomo Metal Mining, has announced the decision to proceed with the construction of the Côté Gold Project.

Following the completion of a £4 million second phase, the Coal Authority’s Lynemouth mine water treatment scheme in Northumberland can now treat the equivalent of 2400 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water every year.

Waqas A. Aziz and Tariq Zaman Khan report on the current state of Pakistan’s mining sector.

Endeavour Silver Corp. has reported a production of 596 545 oz of silver and 5817 oz of gold in 2Q20.

Rio Tinto will start planning for the wind-down of operations and the eventual closure of New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) following the conclusion of its strategic review.

RPMGlobal is pleased to announce the acquisition of Canada-headquartered mine scheduling optimisation company, Revolution Mining Software.

Kaizen Discovery Inc. has recently announced the results from recent exploration diamond drilling at its 100%-owned Pinaya Copper-Gold Project, Peru.

Erdene Resource Development Corp. has recently announced drilling results from the Midfield Southeast zone of the company’s 100%-owned Bayan Khundii Gold Project.

Autonomous solutions specialist RCT has completed a project for Russian Cat® dealer Vostochnaya Technica on a fixed position rockbreaker in Siberia.

As part of its measures to combat COVID-19 in Chile and the O'Higgins region, Codelco will temporarily suspend the construction of the developments that are part of its structural New Level Mine project, Chile.

Rio Silver Inc has announced that its partner Peruvian Metals plans to initiate an exploration and bulk sampling programme on the high-grade gold/silver/copper Palta Dorada project early in 3Q20.