Handling & processing

Mexus Gold US has announced that it continues to work the Mexus III area at its Santa Elena mine.

Metso Outotec has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co. Ltd on the delivery of environmentally sound technology for an iron ore pelletising plant to be built in south-west China.

Flexco and MLT Minet Lacing Technology have announced that they have signed an agreement in which Flexco will be the exclusive source for MLT products in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Pensana has lodged its planning application for its proposed rare earth processing facility at the Saltend Chemicals Park, Yorkshire, UK.

Calibre Mining Corp. has announced that opencast mining has commenced at Pavon Norte and that mill feed has been delivered to the Libertad complex for processing.

NRW Holdings has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, RCR Mining Technologies, have been awarded a new crushing and conveying contract Fortescue Metals Group’s Queens Project.

Mexus Gold US has announced it is on schedule to meet its goal of reaching 100 gal./min. to the heap leach pad by 1 February 2021.

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.

Metso Outotec has been awarded a landmark contract by PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel to modernise one of the company’s two existing smelting lines at their Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant in Norilsk, Russia.

Mexus Gold US has announced that the sale of gold from production at its Santa Elena mine located near Caborca, Mexico, is expected to occur by 31 December 2020.