West Hawk Development (WHD) has made advancements of both social processes and technical evaluation for its Mackenzie Valley coal-to-gas project in Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. Successful, preliminary meetings with Elders and Business Executives followed by public meetings with residents of Tulita and Norman Wells, NWT, have recently been conducted. Simultaneously, the company has signed a […]

As already published in IM’s review of mining developments in Spain, (IM, July 2006, pp.33-40) Outokumpu Technology has been chosen as lead technology supplier for the greenfield copper processing plant being built near Seville by Cobre Las Cruces, a subsidiary of Inmet Mining.  The value of Outokumpu Technology’s supply contract is approximately €45 million.
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Aldridge Minerals has signed a strategic alliance and option agreement with Anatolia Minerals and its Turkish subsidiary for exploration and development of the Yenipazar Au-Ag-Cu-Pb-Zn VMS deposit in central Turkey. The agreement amends and restates the previous agreement with Anatolia on the Yenipazar property. Under the terms of the agreement, and supplementary to earn-in conditions […]

The Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for Axmin’s Passendro gold project on the Bambari-Bakala Permits, Central African Republic, has been awarded to Senet of South Africa. Senet, which is currently building three gold projects in west Africa, will work in conjunction with consultants SRK (UK) (resources/reserves, mining, geotechnics, hydrogeology), AMEC Earth and Environmental (tailings, waste rock), […]

MMC Norilsk Nickel (IM, July 2006, p8) has announced preliminary consolidated production figures of its Polar Division and Kola MMC for the first half of 2006. Tav Morgan, Deputy General Director of Norilsk, announced that the company fulfilled its second quarter and first half 2006 production plan for nickel and copper, producing 61,000 t of […]

America’s National Mining Association and several other industry associations and companies last week moved to block the implementation of three Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) provisions that set arbitrary limits on the amount of total carbon (TC) emissions permissible in diesel exhaust in underground metal and non-metal mines. NMA is challenging the rules on […]