Mining

The community plan approval allows for groundwork including supplementary drilling to commence at the highly prospective Lobo project area.

The plant is located near the Port of Bunbury and close to one of the world’s largest hard rock lithium deposits, the Greenbushes mine, in Western Australia.

Exploration drilling is planned for Q323 to target reserve additions and resource conversion, tapping into the 885 000 oz of resources currently outside the reserve-based mine plan.

Only 2% of this highly prospective, giant mineral system has been drilled to date – demonstrating enormous potential for additional discoveries through future drilling currently being planned.

Thiess, Caterpillar, and Hastings Deering will provide 21 autonomous haul trucks, 3 autonomous drills, and a private LTE network for the complex to enable full operations to commence in late 2023.

Arca works globally with nickel mine developers and operators to capture and permanently store CO2 in mine tailings.

The continued flow of results ensures Winsome is on track for maiden Adina Mineral Resource Estimate later in 2023, despite the current hiatus on drilling.

Results Include 5.9% Ni, 2.0% Cu, 12.4 g/t Pt + Pd + Au over 3.2 m.

Cobra has announced rare earth results from Reverse Circulation (RC) and Aircore (AC) drilling, which will support further Rare Earth Elements (REE) resource growth at the Wudinna Project in South Australia.

The mine is expected to produce an average of 120 000 to 140 000 oz of gold for the first three years of commercial production.

Torngat Metals and Metso have signed a contract for large-volume pilot scale processing of ore extracted from Torngat’s Strange Lake Rare Earth project in Québec.

The Laguna Verde project has recorded assays of up to 417 mg/L.

The mixed rare earth sulphate solids produced by the pilot plant front end at Mintek will be shipped to the USA to undergo further downstream processing in the pilot plant back end, in order to deliver separated magnet rare earth oxides.

The high-resolution drone survey has helped identify copper-gold drill targets.

Metso has been awarded a two-year Life Cycle Services contract for Ma’aden’s gold processing plant in Saudi Arabia.