Immersive Technologies said it was selected as a workforce development partner by PGM and chrome concentrate producer Tharisa Minerals as it adds a new core component to its operator training program at its mine in South Africa. The operator has added a PRO4-B to its simulator fleet, which will use new equipment conversion kits from Immersive that include the Caterpillar…
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Construction of the Phase 2 concentrator plant at the Kamoa-Kakula copper project in the Democratic Republic of Congo is ahead of schedule with project officials anticipating a Q2 2022 start up. The 3.8 million-tonne-per-annum (Mtpa) concentrator plant is a carbon copy of the Phase 1 concentrator plant, and is being constructed alongside it. All long-lead items of equipment, structural steel,…
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Barrick President and CEO Mark Bristow has offered insight into its newest operational move, noting that the Loulo-Gounkoto gold underground complex in Mali is ramping up as it continues to replace the ore depleted by mining.
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Sibanye-Stillwater has confirmed that its Kloof gold mine in the Gauteng province of South Africa has returned to normal production operations following a Sept. 19 incident at the site where a miner went missing. The company, which located the body of the missing miner the evening of Sept. 22 after extensive search efforts by mine research and rescue teams, told…
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Photo: CMAC-Thyssen Publicly held Global Atomic has inked a letter of intent (LoI) with CMAC-Thyssen for the development of the portal as well as initial underground development work at its Dasa uranium project in Niger. The retainment of the engineering group stemmed from a bidding process, which required previous project experience in West Africa, the Canadian-based company’s President and CEO…
Read MoreSouth African operator Harmony Gold has offered confirmation but little in the way of details regarding a September 1 death at its Mponeng mine near Carletonville, in the Gauteng province. Company officials said the fatality was the result of a fall of ground and that operations in the affected section were suspended. Authorities are investigating the event. Harmony did not…
Read MoreRio Tinto confirmed it has begun the process of restarting operations at the Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) site in South Africa following an escalation of violence earlier this year. Rio Tinto said the opening follows “a stabilisation of the security situation around the mine.” More specifically, there had been several reports of arson and, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the…
Read MoreGlobal drone group Delta Drone International has been appointed to perform a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) project at Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo gold mine. Delta officials said it will be providing its drone-based LiDAR solution to establish a three-dimensional model of the surface characteristics of new areas of the mine and also help the miner to mitigate potential risks prior…
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