Exploration & development

High-grade intersections at Eleonore North and South continue to define and extend mineralisation.

Rockwell Automation will collaborate in the transformation of the mine into a technologically advanced ‘super cave’ mine that uses a block-caving extraction process.

Wärtsilä has secured replacement operations of De Beers’ diamond mining vessel, the Debmar Pacific.

Asia Pacific is set to lead a turnaround in the global mining sector in terms of number of projects and CAPEX value, says GlobalData.

The company has completed and submitted the IFS on the Sangihe project to the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and, once approved, construction of the mining facilities and infrastructure can begin.

The contract has a 30 month term, with an option of a 12 month extension, to supply all underground mining services for the Zone 55 and Bagassi South underground mines.

The drilling results from the Eleonore South continue to validate the spatial continuity of the mineralisation identified to date and, importantly, demonstrate that high grades are recurrent along strike and dip.

Gold Fields Ltd announces plans to carry out further restructuring at its South Deep operation in South Africa.

A brief submitted by CMIF details seven policy areas where collaboration and action by federal, provincial and territorial governments can boost Canada’s ability to attract new mineral investment.

Lake Resources is set to begin drilling operations at the Cauchari project, which adjoins to the proven 14.8 million t LCE world-class lithium brine project.

Perseus Mining Ltd provides an update on its recent exploration activities at its Sissingué and Yaouré properties on the Ivory Coast, with a key highlight being the identification of potential to increase mineral resources at Yaouré.

NETL researchers have discovered that the extraction of rare earths from underclay deposits shows great promise as a new way of securing a domestic supply.

Rubicon Minerals Corporation (Rubicon) has begun processing the bulk sample mineralised material extracted from test mining activities at the Phoenix Gold Project.

Corporate governance authorised the optimisation of the mine’s design, which initially considered four levels of depth, and that now, after the reformulation, will be only three.

It is anticipated that an additional 13 drill holes will be completed as part of the first phase of the 2018 campaign.