NASA has taken steps toward excavating moon soil in 2032, including a deployment of a test drill rig to the moon this summer, reported Reuters. The U.S. space agency is looking to quantify potential resources, including energy, water and moon soil, as a goal to attract commercial investment, noted Gerald Sanders, a rocket scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, who…
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Operations are now ready to ramp up at Equinox Gold’s new Santa Luz mine in Brazil, where crews marked the first gold pour from the resin and elution circuit. CEO Christian Milau said construction is now complete at the operation in the Bahia state, having been wrapped up on time and budget and without any LTIs. Commissioning began last month and…
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The mining arm of Hexagon has released HxGN MinePlan GeoSlate, a mobile geological drill hole logging application for field data collection. Using a field-ready mobile tablet, users can quickly and easily compile field drill hole data to simplify a geologist’s workflow. The company said the new releases, built for optimal performance, can save time by removing the headache of configuring…
Read MoreJaguar Mining released an exploration update from its strategic Iron Quadrangle joint venture with IAMGOLD Corp., noting the identification of five new high-potential trends over a 50 kilometer strike length in the mineral-rich region of Brazil. Jon Hill, vice president of geology and exploration at Jaguar Mining, said that the exploration team had made exceptional progress over the past year.…
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