St Barbara commissions crusher; appoints advisor

St Barbara has successfully commissioned a MMD Sizer at its Simberi operations in Papua New Guinea, an essential part of the site’s pre-expansion growth capital. The company said the crusher exceeded all commissioning targets with product size testing achieving P100 passing 150 mm, compared to the objective of P80 passing 150 mm. It was then handed over to operations and…

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Wind turbines coming to Gold Fields mine

Gold Fields has awarded a contract to renewable energy solutions provider Goldwind to design, manufacture and construct seven wind turbines for its St Ives gold mine, located 80 kilometres south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The turbines will form a 42-megawatt wind farm as part of the miner’s landmark A$296 million St Ives Renewable Energy project, which will become Western…

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Rio2 starts Fenix construction

Canadian-based Rio2 has marked the start of construction at its Fenix gold mine in the Maricunga Gold Belt, Atacama Region, Chile. A ceremony was held 6 February to mark the occasion; the event was attended by the Honorable Aurora Williams Baussa, Minister of Mining; Mario Silva Álvarez, Deputy Governor of Atacama; Jorge Riesco Valdivieso, President of SONAMI (Chilean National Mining…

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Resolute Mining CEO held in Mali amid tax dispute

Photo: Resolute Mining Resolute Mining CEO Terry Holohan and two other colleagues are being held in Bamako, Mali, as the military-led government presses the Australian-based company to pay back taxes on its Syama gold mine, reported Business Insider Africa. The government insists that Resolute allegedly owes 100 billion CFA francs ($162 million) in taxes identified in a sector-wide audit, according…

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Coeur Mining to acquire SilverCrest Metals

U.S.-based Coeur Mining has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire North American peer SilverCrest Metals, adding the Las Chispas underground mine in Sonora, Mexico, to its portfolio.  Under the terms of the agreement, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coeur will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of SilverCrest pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement. The transaction is…

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