ONTARIO – Canada Cobalt Works of Coquitlam, B.C., has poured its initial three silver bars at the Castle silver-cobalt mine 75 km south of Kirkland Lake, near the town of Gowanda. The pour was part of a proof of concept…
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HELSINKI – Metso expanded its line of mobile crushing and screening units for the aggregates industry with an extensive new product portfolio. The new Metso Nordtrack range introduces 19 products designed to meet the requirements of general contractors…
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ARKANSAS – U.S. Vanadium, a private company in which venture capital firm Elysee Development Corp. has a 15% stake, is acquiring a Russian owned production plant in Hot Springs, Ark., that produces vanadium pentoxide. Russian steel producer, Evraz, pur…
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ONTARIO – Toronto-based First Cobalt Corp. has turned the power on at its refinery in the town of Cobalt. A team of engineers and technicians will conduct a field program in support of the definitive feasibility study underway by Ausenco…
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MONTREAL – Geomega Resources has completed a capex study for a rare earths processing plant with at least twice the throughput as the original plant. The new estimates were part of the front end engineering and design (FEED) study. The…
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OREGON – Vancouver-based Bayhorse Silver has begun commissioning the mill at the silver mine of the same name. The mill has nameplate capacity of 180 t/d. The mill treats pre-concentrated ore. An x-ray transmissive ore sorter is used to reduce…
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HELSINKI – Metso Corporation is expanding its crusher wear part offerings by launching a new range of OEM crusher liners. Available for selected markets beginning September 2019, the new Metso O-Series offers the right balance between performance, affo…
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BRITISH COLUMBIA – Ongoing metallurgical tests of samples from the Kutcho copper-zinc project 100 km east of Dease Lake delivered better results than in an earlier pre-feasibility study for Kutcho Copper Corp. of Vancouver. The recent locked cycle test…
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ALBERTA – Calgary’s Suncor Energy has committed $1.4 billion to adopt low carbon cogeneration of power at its Base plant near Fort McMurray. Greenhouse gas emissions associated with steam production at the plant will be reduced by approximately 25%. Th…
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CHILE – MIRS, the Chilean subsidiary of HighService Corp., launched a robotic solution for the reline of SAG and ball mills this week. The external mill maintenance robot or EMMR is considered to be the world’s first fully automated system…
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