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West Australian potash developer Kalium Lakes is set for early works to commence on its 100%-owned Beyondie SOP project with the award of key EPCM contracts for the purification plant – design, supervision and commissioning services to the Ebtec GbR consortium, project deliver to DRA Global, compaction plant to Maschinenfabrik Köppern and workplace health and safety implementation to Firm...
AVZ Minerals has further strengthened the potential for a world-class, high-margin, long-life mining project at its 60%-owned Manono lithium project in DR Congo with the completion of an extended scoping study for a 5Mtpa operation.
The study outlines a 20-year potential mine life producing 1.1Mtpa of 5.8% Li2O concentrate at cash costs of $US223/t.
MD Nigel Ferguson says the study also underlines the expandability of the project,...
Zambia’s 2019 copper output could be as much as 100,000t lower than last year’s 861,946t as changes to mining tax drive miners to cut production, Reuters reports.
The Chamber of Mines says present forecasts are that copper production, both concentrate and finished copper, will be drastically lower than last year and could be as much as 100,000t lower.
Referring to tax changes the mining industry says will stymie...
Company - Woomera Mining Ltd
Adelaide-based company focused on exploration of projects in the Gawler Craton and Musgrave Province in South Australia and lithium tenements in Western Australia
Uranium-focused Aura Energy has achieved a milestone on the road to achieving producer status with the delivery of its first samples of yellowcake product during testwork carried out for the DFS study on its 100%-owned Tiris project in the Sahara Desert in Mauritania.
Aura says the UO4 yellowcake produced during testwork in the ANSTO Minerals laboratories is regarded as saleable with impurity levels in the product within ASTM standards...
McEwen Mining’s Gold Bar Mine in Nevada, US, has reached commercial production and is on track for Dec 2019 year (FY/CY19) gold production of 50,000oz at an AISC of $US975oz.
The mine is operating at 125% of the planned 7,200tpd production rate, with recoveries from the heap leach tracking well compared to the FS, following 1st gold on Feb 16th.
Codelco’s giant Chuquicamata Copper Mine in Chile is set for a 40% drop in production over the next 2-years, according an internal forecast seen by Reuters, pointing to the sharp challenge facing the world’s top copper miner as it scrambles to maintain output.
As Codelco scales down and ultimately shutters open pit extraction next year, while the underground project ramps up, production is expected to drop sharply to 277,000t...
Codelco’s giant Chuquicamata Copper Mine is set for a 40% drop in production over the next 2-years, according an internal forecast seen by Reuters, pointing to the sharp challenge facing the world’s top copper miner as it scrambles to maintain output.
The giant open-pit mine, set to be the Chilean state-run miner’s biggest by output this year, is undergoing a complex $US5B+ transformation into an underground shaft mine in a bid...
Industrial conglomerate Wesfarmers is going ahead with its $A776M, $1.90-a-share takeover bid for Kidman Resources and its 50% of the proposed long-life Mt Holland lithium mining/refining operation in Western Australia after completed its exclusive period of due diligence.
The 2 have entered an agreement for a scheme of arrangement backed by the Kidman board, but still subject to a range of conditions, including Kidman shareholder...
Australian-based advanced material technology company Talga Resources has identified what it believes to be the quickest path to significant revenue after a prefeasibility study outlined outstanding project economics for the staged development of its 100%-owned Vittangi graphite project in Sweden’s far north.
The PFS assessed a conventional openpit mining operation with an initial low-capital expenditure toll processing operation over...