Mining

IAMGOLD Corp. confirms that it has received approval for its application under Section 36 of the Fisheries Act for the Côté Gold Project.

The Queensland Resources Council has welcomed the State government’s commitment of lung health checks for mine workers.

Rio Tinto, Turquoise Hill and the Government of Mongolia have reached an agreement on the preferred domestic power solution for Oyu Tolgoi.

Technical developments in cleaning mine water have helped the Coal Authority to improve the sustainability of one of its vital treatment schemes.

BHP has partnered with Austmine to launch the its Supplier Innovation Programme across Australia.

The South African mining industry, directly and under the auspices of the Minerals Council South Africa, is seeking to increase its COVID-19 testing capacity, both for companies themselves and in support of the country’s overall testing imperative.

Brokk has announced that it is offering personalised training options.

Codelco has decided to stop smelting at Chuquicamata, decrease the refinery’s endowment to ensure sanity measures and will operate at one third of its capacity.

FLSmidth can confirm the sale of three system packages to Gold Fields Limited for the Salares Norte project in Chile.

FLSmidth has confirmed the sale of three system packages to Gold Fields Ltd for the Salares Norte project in Chile.

The broadening of political support for carbon capture, utilisation and storage is a big step along the path towards least-cost emissions reduction in Australia.

Caterpillar Inc. has recently announced that they have acquired select assets and hired employees from San Francisco, USA, based robot and autonomy technology solutions company, Marble Robot Inc.

The Zero Emission Copper Mine of the Future by the University of Sydney’s Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering sets out how Australian copper mining can become emission free over the next 30 years through the use of emerging technologies.

By investing in new technologies such as TOMRA’s sensor-based sorting, mining companies can take new approaches to extract natural commodities in an energy-efficient and resource-conserving manner.

Fosterville South has announced assays from multiple wide intercepts of high-grade gold near surface from initial shallow scout drilling at the recently commenced Golden Mountain drilling programme.