
OceanaGold announces permit for mine life extension
OceanaGold Corp. has announced the receipt of permits for the Golden Point Underground Mine, Deepdell North Stage III opencast extension, and the Frasers West expansion.
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OceanaGold Corp. has announced the receipt of permits for the Golden Point Underground Mine, Deepdell North Stage III opencast extension, and the Frasers West expansion.

Ariana Resources plc has recently announced new resource and exploration drilling results obtained from the Kiziltepe Mine, Turkey.

Trilogy Metals Inc. has announced positive results of its feasibility study for the Arctic copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold project in the Ambler mining district of Northwestern Alaska, USA.

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. has reported the successful completion of commissioning of the primary and secondary crushing circuits and the start of stacking ore on the heap leach pad at the Lindero gold project, Argentina.

Codelco has decided to stop smelting at Chuquicamata, decrease the refinery’s endowment to ensure sanity measures and will operate at one third of its capacity.

The leading cause of fatalities was powered haulage, which accounted for 48% of the annual total.

RCT has worked on an automation project with Caterpillar dealer Vostochnaya Technia at Polyus’ Olimpiada opencast gold mine in Russia.

Asia Pacific will spearhead the global opencast mining trucks market growth to 2020, says GlobalData.

Rockwell Automation will collaborate in the transformation of the mine into a technologically advanced ‘super cave’ mine that uses a block-caving extraction process.

West Wits Mining is poised to join the ranks of junior gold producers in South Africa.

"With the completion of the South African assets we have added references, local expertise and improved ability to deliver complete solutions to our Sub-Saharan customers. We welcome our new colleagues and customers to FLSmidth."

This is after receiving the crucial initial environmental licence for the project which allows non-ground disturbing exploration activities to begin on site.