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Endeavour Mining said it achieved commercial production at both its Sabodala-Massawa BIOX Expansion in Senegal and at its Lafigue mine in Cote d'lvoire, on August 1, 2024. Both projects were [...]

Chile is the leading copper producing country. A year ago, back in March 2020, all copper miners, including Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco), the world's largest, were facing [...]

Albemarle Corp. reported the U.S. Department of Defense has approved a $90 million grant to help support the expansion of domestic mining and the production of lithium. The funding will [...]

On February 19, 2024, Turkish authorities chose to temporarily suspend search and rescue activities for nine missing miners and to focus on stabilization of the Copler mine's heap-leach pad, which [...]

Barrick Gold Corp. reported that Papua New Guinea (PNG) Governor General Sir Bob Dabae granted a special mining lease on October 15, 2023, to New Porgera Ltd. (NPL), clearing the [...]

Coeur Mining, Inc. said it has achieved several critical milestones at its major Rochester expansion project in Nevada, including the production of the first silver and gold ounces. Following a [...]

On April 11, Alamos Gold Inc. broke ground for the Island gold mine expansion in Ontario. Already one of the most profitable mines in Canada, the expansion will increase production, [...]

Bunker Hill Mining Corp. reported the results of a Prefeasibility Study (PFS) for the first phase of the restart of the Bunker Hill mine, located in Kellogg, Idaho, United States. [...]

Epiroc reported that the Mining Innovation and Automation Team (MIAT) at Newcrest Cadia Valley Operations launched semiautonomous integrated production at Panel Cave 1. The development marks the completion of a [...]

Kinross Gold Corp. has restarted mining activities and construction work at the Tasiast mine in Mauritania after a fire on June 15. However, milling activities are still suspended. Kinross confirmed [...]

Those who follow the copper business are well aware of the situation the sector faces. Soft prices are forcing miners to cut costs per pound while they simultaneously grow production [...]

Cameco restarted production in April at its Cigar Lake uranium mine located in northern Saskatchewan. Production at Cigar Lake was temporarily suspended in December due to increasing risks posed by [...]

Red 5 Ltd. reported that underground mining recommenced at the King of The Hills gold mine at the end of March, while process plant commissioning advances. Located 28 kilometers (km) [...]

Mines can't function without pumps and pipework. Period. At the front end of an operation, dewatering is key to maintaining production, be it from underground or an open pit. By [...]

Canadian mining company Sierra Metals Inc. received an Informe Tecnico Minero (TM) Permit from the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines for the construction and operation at a capacity of [...]

With the possible exception of visual sorting--'this one's green, this one's not,' or however the Bronze Age equivalent ran being able to separate minerals using differences in their density is [...]

Fortescue Metals is set to invest $8.4 billion to expand its Western Australia iron ore production from 55 to 155 million metric tons per year. The plan calls for the construction of an additional two berths in the facility. Meanwhile, AngloGold Ashanti has approved the Tropicana gold project in Australia.

Copper miners have been adopting underground mining operations. Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold's Papua, Indonesia is planning to go underground in 2016. South Africa's Palabora Mining has made the transition from open-pit to block cave mining.

Members of the global mining industry have been adopting in-pit crushing and conveying (IPCC) as an alternative to truck and shovel mining. Lower operating costs makes IPCC an attractive option in certain applications. ThyssenKrupp Robins has been an active supplier of crushing and other equipment to mining firms around the world.

Nornickel, the world's largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, has resumed ore mining at one of two mines that were shut [...]

Barrick Gold Corp.'s giant Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex's third underground mine in Mali has reached its first mining level and is scheduled to start delivering ore tons to the plant during [...]

Citing COVID-19 related sick leave combined with production disruptions at both the Aitik mine in Sweden and the Tara mine in Ireland, Boliden said the operating profit in its mining [...]

New Boliden's Aitik 36 is an open-pit mine near Gallivare, Sweden that is expected to start operating in March 2010. The new Aitek mine is to help extend the existing mine's operations from 2016 to 2027. The SEK6 billion project is 3,000 meters long, 1,100 meters wide and 405 meters deep. Details on the mine's production and capacity are discussed.

Sydvaranger Gruve AS is an iron ore mining company with mine ore treatment and grinding facilities operating in Norway. Northland Resources Inc. is a mining company planning to work on the Kaunisvaara project in the Sweden-Finland border. Other Scandinavian mining activities by LKAB and Dannemora Mineral are discussed.

The survey data reflecting the total number of new projects introduced in the year 2005, the total investments made in the projects, the mineral projects that occupy the major share of investments, and the countries that had invested the most, are discussed.

Bunker Hill Mining Corp. has launched a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) to assess the potential to quickly restart production for minimal capital expenditure at its Bunker Hill mine, located in [...]

Magellan Gold Corp. has reopened the main and emergency access portals of the Center Star gold mine in Idaho. The company said it is now working on additional mine stabilization [...]

Ask anyone employed in the mineral exploration industry if they believe computer technology has increased their productivity and the answer is invariably 'yes.' It is only logical to assume that [...]

The unavailability of capital is due to several factors. The Turkish private mining sector has been developing only recently--the first mining code was approved in 1986, with following reforms in [...]

The Australian mineral-sands industry produces around 35% of the world's rutile, 50% of the zircon, 40% of the high-grade ilmenite, and a substantial portion of the world's synthetic rutile. It [...]

In today's increasingly complex and demanding maintenance world, where equipment is becoming more technically complex, operational targets are higher than ever and skilled resources are becoming a scarce commodity, equipment [...]

There may not be gold in them thar Southwestern hills, but there is plenty of copper, molybdenum and silver. There are enough mineral reserves in northwestern Arizona for Vancouver, British [...]

Newmont Goldcorp Corp. has safely started production at the Penasquito mine in Mexico following the lifting of the blockade on October 8. With the support of the state and federal [...]

Mining activities in Sweden are slowing, with fewer reported exploration permit applications at 125 so far in 2009. Finland's mining operations have been relatively stable with the continuation of the country's geological survey's drilling program. Details on key explorations and mining players in the Scandinavia are discussed.

NovaGold is considering its options for its Rock Creek gold project in Alaska following the suspension of commissioning activity in the state. The company has also completed a feasibility study for its Donlin Creek project. Meanwhile, Kirkland Lake Gold has met its production target for its 2010 fiscal year.

Bureau Veritas, a provider of testing, inspection and certification services, has been working with BHP's Olympic Dam on their heap-leach project since the early development work commenced in 2012. The [...]