Australian mining news

Rio Tinto’s investment represents a significant step towards unlocking a major new supply of low-CO2-footprint natural rutile and flake graphite.

The order includes underground trucks and loaders, as well as a development drill rig with dual control. Delivery is planned to begin in 3Q23.

Initial petrography work confirms the presence of ilmenite, a titanium-iron oxide mineral, which is highly valued as a source for titanium oxide and which accounts for over 85% of the feedstock for the entire titanium industry.

Northern Star Resources has placed an order for a wide range of FLSmidth mineral processing technologies for its Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines mill expansion project.

Based on the scale of this find, Pitfield has the potential to be one of the largest primary titanium mineral sources discovered globally.

In just over six months Liontown Resources’ Kathleen Valley project, Bellevue Gold’s project, AngloGold Ashanti’s Tropicana, and now Northern Star’s Jundee mining operation have all signed PPA’s for four of Australia’s largest off-grid hybrid renewable energy projects.

Drilling will commence shortly at the Decka target which is a combined magnetic and conductive anomaly within Proterozoic sediments, similar to Havieron.

AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd has agreed to build one of the largest renewable energy projects in Australia’s natural resource sector and to integrate it into the power supply for the Tropicana Gold Mine.

The programme consists of a Six-hole reverse circulation (RC) programme for 820 m with depths from 90 – 180 m building on the 2022 programme which confirmed consistent, high-grade mineralisation at Kathleen Valley.

There are only 75 days to go until thousands of attendees gather at Sydney Showground for Asia Pacific’s International Mining Exhibition (AIMEX): 5 – 7 September 2023.