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Intertek Opens New Modern Mineral Testing Laboratory in Queensland

Intertek Genalysis has opened a new mineral testing laboratory in Queensland, Australia. The state-of-the-art laboratory serves the region’s mining and exploration sector. Intertek offers sample preparation and analytical testing services for various metals, including gold, nickel, copper and base metals, and is well placed to meet the testing and assay needs [...]

Projects persevering despite difficulties

Latest issue of International Mining Project News available (November 21): With the sense of uncertainty that is circulating throughout the industry, project reports and updates are increasing in importance. As a consequence another section on cutbacks has been added. Included in this section is Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold’s Climax molybdenum mine and Xstrata Alloys [...]

FLSmidth receives copper order in Peru

Company Announcement to the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority No. 46-2008, 11 November 2008
FLSmidth Minerals has signed a contract worth USD 62m (DKK 361m) with Chinese-owned Minera Chinalco Peru for equipment for its Toromocho copper mine in the Morococha mining district about 140 kilometres east of Lima, the capital of Peru.
FLSmidth Minerals is to provide detailed [...]

Mercator Commences Crushing Ore at the Mineral Park Mill

VANCOUVER, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Mercator Minerals Ltd. (”Mercator”) is pleased announce that it has commenced crushing and stacking ore at its wholly owned Mineral Park Moly-Copper project…more at PR Newswire

Wardrop wins Mt. Milligan work

VANCOUVER — WARDROP ENGINEERING has been awarded the detailed engineering design and procurement contract for TERRANE METALS’ Mt. Milligan copper-gold project 155 km northwest of Prince George, B.C. Wardrop recently completed the feasibility study for the project that involves a conventional truck-and-shovel open pit mine and 60,000 t/d copper concentrator…more at [...]

Maintenance work at the Armenian Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine AG (ZCMC), will be performed early due to the current market situation

The CRONIMET Group announces today that the maintenance work at the Armenian Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine AG (ZCMC), originally planned for early 2009, will be performed early due to the current market situation. It is expected that the maintenance work will last four weeks. During this period, production will be reduced to the technological [...]

New Mine Development added to SupplyMine - Shituru

The 100 ha Shituru property is located one kilometer east of the Gecamines hydrometallurgical complex on the eastern limits of the City of Likasi in the province of Katanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is also only 3 km off the provincial Likasi - Lubumbashi highway.
The deposit is a stratiform copper deposit overprinted [...]

MIPAC Unveils CellView® for Copper Electro-refining and winning

MIPAC introduces new wireless technology for tankhouse management that significantly improves copper and other electrolytic process operations; developed in Xstrata’s Townsville refinery; trial scheduled in Europe; order received in Kazakhstan.
Brisbane, Australia, October 21st, 2008 - MIPAC, experts in major industrial process control, has launched CellView®, a new wireless solution to automate cell condition monitoring in [...]

Large Copper Mine goes Digital for Mine Communications & Tracking

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Zambia have undertaken a major upgrade of their underground communication infrastructure by introducing MST’s digital backbone and tracking applications to their main Konkola Mine.

KCM, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Plc, are the largest copper producer in Zambia, with their Konkola Mine located in the northern part of the [...]

MIPAC Recommendations to Improve Process Performance at Nifty Copper Operation in Western Australia

MIPAC, a respected world leader in process control, will implement advanced control strategies to improve process performance at Birla’s Nifty Copper Operation in Australia.
Birla initially engaged MIPAC to review its use of process control and instrumentation at the Nifty operation west of Port Hedland….MEIOnline

Outotec to Deliver Concentrator Technology Worth over 175 Million Euro for the Miheevsky Project in Russia

Outotec has signed a major contract with ZAO Miheevsky GOK, a subsidiary of Russian Copper Company, for the design and delivery of a new copper concentrator plant for the Miheevsky porphyry-copper project located in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The contract value exceeds EUR 175 million. Russian Copper Company will implement the construction of [...]

SupplyMine launches a new Mine Development Site - Kipoi

Kipoi mineral property covers 5,500 ha and is located in southern Democratic Republic of Congo. The company has the right earn a 60% interest in the property from its Congolese partners.
The conceptual exploration target is to define 1 million tones of contained copper resource which would allow the project to reach a future capacity of [...]