Handling & processing

Canada Nickel Company Inc. has entered a memorandum of understanding with Glencore Canada Corp. for the potential use of Glencore's Kidd concentrator and metallurgical site for the treatment and processing of material mined from Canada Nickel’s Crawford Nickel-Cobalt Sulfide project.

Metso Outotec has signed an agreement to deliver its comminution equipment for Nornickel’s refurbishment project at the Talnakh processing plant in Norilsk, Russia.

Vale informs that it has received the required licenses to start the construction of the Capanema Project, located in the municipalities of Santa Bárbara, Ouro Preto and Itabirito, Brazil.

Golden Birch Resources Inc. has announced that the drill rig and equipment are now in place on the drill pad at the Omu drill target, Keveri Project, Papua New Guinea.

Lundin Mining Corporation has announced that a return to full production rates has been achieved at the Chapada mine in Brazil.

Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc. (DST) has announced that it has entered into a technology transfer licensing agreement with Newmont Corp. for the utilisation of DST’s cyanide free gold extraction.