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Nyrstar Restarting Middle Tennessee Underground Zinc Mines
Nyrstar has initiated work to restart its Middle Tennessee underground zinc mines, which have been on care and maintenance since early December 2015. The Middle Tennessee operations include three mines Gordonsville, Elmwood and Cumberland and a concentrator, all located in Smith county, about 100 miles east of Nyrstar’s zinc smelter near Clarksville, Tennessee. The concentrator is located at the Gordonsville mine site. The care and maintenance workforce ..... read
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Noranda Selling New Madrid Aluminum Smelter
Noranda Aluminum, which initiated bankruptcy proceedings in February, has received court approval for the sale of its New Madrid, Missouri, aluminum smelter and facilities to ARG International for a purchase price of $13.7 million. The court approval followed an auction that took place on September 28. Noranda expected to close the transaction in October, subject to certain closing conditions. The New Madrid smelter was shut down in March. The smelter is fully integrated .... read more
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Newmont Achieves Commercial Production at Merian Gold
Newmont Mining poured the first gold and declared commercial production at the Merian open-pit gold project in northeast Suriname on October 1. Declaration of commercial production was based on Merian mill throughput averaging 80% and gold recovery averaging more than 90% over the previous 30 days. The project came in on time and more than $150 million .... read
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 Lundin Receives Approval for Fruta del Norte EIS
Lundin Gold reported in mid-October that the government of Ecuador approved the environmental impact study (EIS) for Lundin’s underground Fruta del Norte gold-silver project in southeast Ecuador. Early works field investigations for mine development have been completed, with the results of more than 2,000 meters (m) of geotechnical drilling, supporting the advance of designs for the mine portals .... read more
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OZ, Cassini Formalize West Musgrave Joint Venture
OZ Minerals has signed a joint-venture earn-in agreement with Cassini Resources that allows OZ to earn up to a 70% interest in the West Musgrave copper-nickel project in a remote area of east-central West Australia. Initial work will focus on an A$3 million scoping study to identify a commercial pathway to begin mining the Nebo-Babel deposits on the project, currently Australia’s largest undeveloped copper-nickel resource. The initial study will set out …. read
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Commissioning Commences at Nova Nickel-copper Project
Independence Group began commissioning the processing plant at its 100% owned Nova nickel-copper project in southern Western Australia in mid-October, approximately four weeks ahead of schedule. Construction was completed on October 10, and crushing and milling of ore began on October 14. In the Nova underground mine, approximately 8 kilometers (km) of development had been completed as of mid-October, and some 85,000 mt of ore at an average grade of 1.5% nickel and 0.7% copper …. read
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Ivanhoe Adds New Resources to Kamoa-Kakula Project Planning
Ivanhoe Mines has published an initial resource estimate for the recently discovered Kakula deposit approximately 10 kilometers (km) southwest of the Kamoa deposit on the Kamoa-Kakula copper project west of the mining center of Kolwezi in southeast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The project, previously called the Kamoa project, is now the Kamoa-Kakula project. The project is a joint venture ….
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Waterberg PFS Considers 744,000 oz/y PGM Production
Platinum Group Metals Ltd. has reported positive results from an independent prefeasibility study (PFS) of the Waterberg platinum group metals project at the northern end of the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa. Platinum Group Metals holds a 58.62% effective interest in the project; Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. holds 28.35%; and empowerment partner Mnombo Wethu Consultants holds the remainder. The PFS considers development of a …. read
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Oyu Tolgoi Sets Quarterly Record
Turquoise Hill Resources announced third-quarter production for Oyu Tolgoi, which included setting an all-time high record for quarterly material mined of more than 25 million metric tons (mt). This record includes stripping for Phase 4, which is the next area of highgrade ore. In the third quarter, concentrator throughput declined 4% over the second quarter due to planned maintenance and …. read more
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Ma’aden Mine and Refinery Reach Commercial Production
Ma’aden Aluminium, a joint venture of the Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma’aden), 74.9%, and Alcoa, 25.1%, reached commercial production at its bauxite mine and alumina refinery in Saudi Arabia in early October. The mine and refinery are key links in a $10.8 billion, aluminum supply-chain project that includes the bauxite mine and alumina refinery, and an aluminum smelter and rolling mill. The aluminum smelter at Ras Al Khair .…
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Kemper Coal-gasification Plant Generates Power
Mississippi Power’s Kemper coal gasification facility has produced its first batch of power, putting it one step closer to coming online. Company officials said that the milestone was achieved October 12, and it is now eyeing an in-service date on or before November 30. It will be supplied in part with the state’s lignite. In the meantime, it will continue in the start-up phase with testing to .... read more
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Murray Wins EPA Lawsuit
A U.S. district judge has ruled in favor of the coal industry and producer Murray Energy Corp. (MEC) in its 2014 suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its administrator, Gina McCarthy, ordering the agency to evaluate the impact its enforcement of the Clean Air Act has had on job losses across the coal community. Judge John Preston Bailey ruled in early October in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia via a 64-page decision that the EPA failed to comply with the Clean Air Act of 1971, specifically Section 321(a), which requires continuous .... read more
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Newmont Mining Corp. appointed Andrew Woodley to lead the company’s North America business beginning on January 2. Woodley succeeds Tom Kerr who retired from Newmont after 32 years. Most recently, Woodley was president and CEO of Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mining operations in Mongolia.
Nyrstar NV announced that John Galassini , senior vice president of mining, is leaving Nyrstar.
SilverCrest Mines Inc. appointed Marcio Fonseca to the newly created position of vice president, corporate development. Most recently, Fonseca was a division director in Macquarie Metals and Energy Capital (Canada) Ltd. The company also appointed Nicholas Campbell as vice president, business development. He will maintain his full-time position as CFO for Goldsource Mines Inc.
Mawson Resources Ltd. promoted Dr. Nick Cook from vice president of exploration to president of Mawson. Michael Hudson will continue in his role as chairman, CEO and director of the company. .
Vast Resources appointed Carl Kindinger as CFO. Kindinger has held senior financial, managerial and board level posts for more than 25 years in small to midsized companies internationally, including Island Oil and Gas Plc and Fastnet Oil and Gas Plc.
Bligh Resources Ltd. appointed Gino Vitale as managing director and CEO. The company also appointed Paddy Reidy as general manager, project development.
Peter Söderman is the new managing director for LKAB Wassara.
Kalle Härkki has been appointed executive vice president and president of Outotec’s metals, energy and water business unit. He has been member of the executive board since 2008, first as head of the services business area and since 2013 as head of the minerals processing business unit. Jyrki Makkonen, who has been acting head of the metals, energy and water business since April, will return to his position as head of non-ferrous business line of metals, energy and water. Taneli Salervo , vice president strategy and business development of minerals processing, will lead the minerals processing business unit until Härkki’s successor has been appointed.