BRAZIL – Four days after the failure of one of its tailings dams at the Feijao iron ore mine in Brumadinho, owner Vale SA is kicking its relief efforts into high gear. The release of the rusty-coloured sludge when the…
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AUSTRALIA – As the New Year begins, leading mining software solutions provider Micromine is reminding mining companies to update their software to avoid potential cyber security breaches, data loss, system integration issues and operational downtime in…
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Prospero Silver (TSXV: PSL; US-OTC: PSRVF) has begun phase two drilling at its Pachuca SE project in Hidalgo State, Mexico, shortly after Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE: FSM) exercised its option to acquire up to 70% of the project in late……
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QUEENSLAND – Vendetta Mining announced that it has just received the results from an independent preliminary economic assessment or PEA for its Pegmont lead-zinc project located in Queensland, northeastern Australia In a press release, Vendetta explain…
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VANCOUVER – Goldcorp expects to produce more silver, zinc, lead and gold equivalent ounces in 2019 compared to 2018. The company, which is currently merging with Newmont, produced 630,000 oz. of gold in 2018’s fourth quarter at $850 per oz. all-in sust…
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Every mine and mill operator’s worst nightmare is the failure of a tailings dam. Vancouver’s Imperial Metals faced this catastrophe in 2014 at its Mount Polley copper-gold mine in British Columbia. Fortunately no one died. The company remediated the pr…
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TORONTO – Sherritt International Corp. has published its 2018 year end production numbers, some of which outstripped guidance and some of which fell short. The company also supplied guidance numbers for 2019. At the Moa joint venture in Cuba, 2018̷…
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QUEBEC – Toronto’s Wesdome Gold Mines is enjoying continued success as it chalks up more high grades from its exploration drilling program at the Kiena gold mine in Val d’Or. Focused on the Deep A zone, recent work has extended…
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BOTSWANA – Earlier this month, Lucara Diamond Corp. recovered a 127-carat top white diamond from its Karowe mine. And the good new just keeps coming. This time the company has recovered a 240-carat top white gem from the same mine.…
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STOCKHOLM – The Sandvik xSeries family is built upon the proven design, and legendary reliability of our diesel powered rotary blast hole drills and features added intelligence and improved operator ergonomics, providing operators with the right balan…
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