Peru Copper has signed an agreement with Peru’s ministry of energy and mines and Proinversion to fund the construction of a water treatment plant to treat acid drainage water from the Kingsmill tunnel. The tunnel was constructed in the mid-1930s by Cerro de Pasco Corp specifically to drain mine workings and it crosses beneath mining […]

QGX has engaged Nexant to assess the technological and economic potential for applying coal-conversion technologies to the coal at Baruun Naran, Mongolia.  Nexant’s initial review of the coal-quality data for Baruun Naran coal indicates that the coal appears amenable to coal-conversion applications.  QGX received a positive initial indication of support from the Mongolian Ministry of […]

As then ICMM’s Secretary General Paul Mitchell says, our “industry’s biodiversity conservation performance is under increasing scrutiny from NGOs, commentators and financial analysts. This is due in part to a growing awareness of the importance of biodiversity conservation, but also because the industry often operates in remote and environmentally sensitive areas of the world. Demonstrating […]

Anvil Mining is proceeding with the $35 million Stage I development of the Kinsevere copper/cobalt deposits following the completion of the feasibility study in early May 2006. The Kinsevere project, which comprises the Kinsevere Hill, Tshifufia and Tshifufiamashi deposits, is located 27 km north-northeast of Lubumbashi, the provincial capital of the Katanga Province of the […]

The world’s largest flash flotation circuit is to be supplied by Outokumpu Technology to the Boddington gold mine (BGM) expansion project in Western Australia.
The four flash flotation SkimAir™ 1800 units – which optimize recovery in the grinding circuit – will form part of a complete flotation circuit from Outokumpu Technology for the BGM project jointly […]

The 9th international Symposium on mining with backfill, Minefill2007 will be held April 29 to May 2, 2007 at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Convention Centre in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Symposium is being hosted by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (CIM) together with McGill and Queen’s Universities, along with the […]