Ivanhoe said underground development at Kakula had accelerated ahead of schedule, with 13.5km completed – 4.2km ahead of plan. The company said a new development record of 1.7km could be set in April, 562m ahead of its plan. The project is said to be on track for initial concentrate productionContinue Reading
The GHH Group brand wil include GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH of Germany, GHH Mining Machines in South Africa and Poland’s Mine Master, including various partner companies. The main focus of GHH’s activities is the production of specialised load haul dumpers, dump trucks, scalers and other utility vehicles for underground mining and tunnelling inContinue Reading
The country’s mines have been allowed to ramp up to 50% as the nation’s lockdown continues to April 30, although the matter is being challeged in court by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union which wants binding regulations put in place to protect mineworkers. The restart has also brought confusion overContinue Reading
Global mining giant Rio Tinto has signed an earn-in and joint venture agreement with Vancouver-headquartered Midnight Sun Mining. Under the agreement, Rio Tinto can buy up to a 75% interest in the Solwezi licences in Zambia for a total of $51m. The Solwezi licences consist of two individual exploration licences.Continue Reading
The resources sector faces new and different challenges due to the current global crisis. From border lockdowns, new health protocols, falling demand and prices, production pressures, project delays, supply chain and logistics issues, staffing, to declining optimism – like most sectors, the industry has been turned upside down. Many companiesContinue Reading
I have often encountered a problem they described in making decisions on key longwall equipment for underground coal mining. It can be stated as follows: “How does one make the best choice of equipment, so that it is not expensive, but at the same time high quality?” The most expensiveContinue Reading
South Deep, the mechanised Gold Fields gold mine in western Gauteng, is putting remote loading to the test. “We’re trialling remote loading from surface, where we have a person sitting in the control room that’s operating a loader 3 km under the ground beneath him. It’s very exciting to seeContinue Reading
As part of plans to establish a sustainable footing for its South Deep mine in South Africa, Gold Fields is trialling teleremote loading in a project with automation specialist RCT. Gold Fields’ problems at South Deep have been well documented, with the company, in 2018, launching a restructuring plan involvingContinue Reading
At the Kamoa-Kakula Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the first phase of development at the Kakula Copper Mine is in many respects exceeding the published plans, says 39.6% owner and operator Ivanhoe Mines (Zijin Mining also has 39.6%). Crews now are mining and stockpiling development ore withContinue Reading
Ivanhoe Mines has now completed 13.5 km of underground development at the Kakula copper mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The company is 4.2 km ahead of plan on the mine’s development. The development partner on the project is Citic Metal Group, led by president Yufeng Sun. Sun and Ivanhoe chairperson Robert Friedland say the mining team is on trackContinue Reading
