Finance & business

Lucara Diamond Corp. (Lucara) appoints Naseem Lahri, as Managing Director of Boteti Mining (Pty) Ltd, Lucara's 100% owned subsidiary in Botswana, which will become effective immediately.  

RPM Advisory Services carries out a maiden Mineral Resource estimate at the Kouri Gold Project; indicated and inferred mineral resources show 1 million oz of gold.

Caterpillar assembles its 5000th Cat® 793 mining truck, a milestone figure that overtakes the manufacture of any other brand of 227 t size class truck.

Curry Supply Company appoints a new Vice President of Sales.

Adriatic Metals PLC (Adriatic) enters into a new investment and strategic relationship with Sandfire Resources NL (Sandfire) to help fast-track the development of Adriatic’s Veovaca and Rupice Projects.

Record nominations for the awards, to be presented over six categories, reflected the growth in Indigenous Australians working in the resources sector.

The company has reported a 4% increase in total production on a copper equivalent basis in 1Q18, compared to the same period of 2017.

Kingsrose Mining Ltd’s Indonesian subsidiary, PT Natarang Mining (PTNM) receives a AUS$3.1 million VAT refund from the Indonesian tax office.

Copper Mountain Mining Corp. finalises its acquisition of Altona Mining Ltd (Altona) and appoints a new member to its Board of Directors.

The increasing demand for rechargeable technology is to cause a boom in the lithium market in the next few years.

A recent poll by Morning Consult for the National Mining Association (NMA) showed that a majority of US voters support reform to encourage domestic mining.

A new Director of Liebherr USA’s Mining Equipment Division has been appointed, responsible for the development of sales and pricing strategies for US mining products.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has removes the Anaconda copper mine from its Superfund Emphasis List.

Mackay’s Adrienne Rourke has been appointed a position in the Federal Government’s Resources 2030 Taskforce.

RCT will present its Muirhead Protection systems at this year’s Expomin in Chile.