Victory reports ‘breakthrough’ at North Stanmore

Victory Metals Limited

Victory Metals Limited has announced exceptional metallurgical leaching test results from its flotation concentrate at its wholly-owned North Stanmore heavy rare earth project in Western Australia. Test work on concentrate produced from the company’s recent flotation program revealed a 48-fold upgrade of the total rare earth oxide it processed, rejecting about 95% of the feed mass into tailings. The results…

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Rio Tinto restarts operations at Pilbara ports

Rio-Tinto-pilbara-piles

Rio Tinto has resumed its iron ore port operations after Tropical Cyclone Narelle recently passed over Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Its four port terminals closed – East Intercourse Island, Parker Point, Cape Lambert A and B – on 24 March. The miner said its employees remained safe and unharmed during the weather event. Ship loading at East Intercourse Island, Parker…

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Seismic activity at Garpenberg to impact earnings: Boliden

Garpenberg Boliden

In mid-March, abnormally high seismic activity was reported at the Garpenberg zinc mine in Sweden, prompting production to cease until inspections could be safely completed. Boliden reported that seismic activity has decreased and mining production will restart in the second quarter, but first-quarter throughput was lower than expected due to the situation. The miner said inspections are not yet complete,…

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Byrnecut orders Sandvik AutoMine for five sites

Byrnecut orders Sandvik AutoMine for five sites

Sandvik has received five AutoMine orders from underground mining contractor Byrnecut. Booked in the first quarter of 2026, all include AutoMine Multi-Lite systems for the Gwalia, Ulysses, Youanmi, and Gossan Valley mines in Australia and the Navachab mine in Namibia. “We now have the majority of our loaders running on AutoMine at our sites across the globe. Safety is Byrnecut’s…

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Codelco-Anglo American mining plan approved

Chile’s state copper miner ​Codelco has received approval from the country’s antitrust regulator for its joint mining ‌plan with Anglo American at the Andina-Los Bronces project, Reuters reported. Last September, the miners finalized an agreement to operate their neighboring copper mines jointly. The deal aims to generate at least $5 billion from increased production and cost savings. The plan will…

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Majestic Gold resumes DGZ operations

Denggezhuang (DGZ) underground mine

Majestic Gold Corp. has resumed operations and production at the Denggezhuang (DGZ) underground mine, located within its Mujin gold project in the eastern Shandong Province of China, after a mandatory shutdown in February. The low-cost junior gold producer announced on February 10 that the Yantai Emergency Management Bureau told all gold mining operations in Yantai to cease production immediately until…

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Macmahon to assist in Mount Carlton restart

Photo: Wolfram

Mining contractor Macmahon announced the execution of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Wolfram Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bumi Resources, for the restart of operations at the Mount Carlton gold mine, located 150 kilometres south of Townsville in North Queensland. Macmahon’s offering of surface and underground mining services, as well as civil infrastructure services, forms the basis of…

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