Exploration & development

Rio Tinto has partnered with Perth-based freight and logistics provider Matic Transport to donate 6000 l of hand cleaning products.

RPMGlobal and Modular Mining have extended their partnership agreement with a collaboration that will see the delivery of a new industry standard application programme interface (API).

Condor Gold has recently announced that it has been granted an Environmental Permit for the development and exploitation of gold from the high-grade America opencast mine.

Columbus Gold: at a time when pandemic is raging, questions about the world after COVID-19 affect all economic sectors.

The New Zealand government has recently decreased the country’s COVID-19 alert from level four to level three.

Condor Gold has recently announced that it has been granted an Environmental Permit for the development and exploitation of gold from the high-grade Mestiza opencast mine.

Australian Potash Ltd has provided an update on its activities and operations at the Lake Wells Gold Project.

Thiess has undergone a successful drill automation field trial at its Mount Pleasant operation.

Vallourec has installed a modern outdoor warning system with electronic sirens from the German manufacturer at the iron ore mine of Pau Branco, Brazil.

Boliden has signed an agreement with Agder Energi for fossil-free electricity supplies in Sweden and Finland.

Earlier in 2020 representatives from Maptek South Africa, Europe, the UK and Russia undertook an extensive mine measurement training course in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Doosan Infracore received large orders for medium-sized excavators from China, as the Chinese construction machinery markets began showing positive signs of recovery.

Global copper production in 2020 is expected to be impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Between 10 - 15 February 2020, work began on setting up a site for exploration drilling at a remote greenfield site in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply the engineering, equipment, and technical advisory for a 44 MW power plant to be installed at the Mansourah & Massarah Gold Project mine in Saudi Arabia.