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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium Mine, Adelaide, Australia
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium Mine, Adelaide, Australia. In 2007 BHP Billiton announced that it would undertake a A$6bn–A$7bn expansion of the Olympic Dam mine. The company says that annual ore production will increase up to 70 million tonnes, a seven-fold increase if the expansion proceeds. Copper production will increase from approximately 180, 000t a year to approximately 730,000t. The deposit occurs in the basement rocks of the Stuart Shelf geological province in the north of...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: June 2009
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009. La Colosa Gold Mine, Colombia. The La Colosa porphyry gold project is located 150km west of Colombia’s capital city, Bogota, in the district of Tolima. La Colosa is the second major greenfield discovery in Colombia. AngloGold Ashanti explored in the site in 2006, followed by initial JORC-compliant resource estimates in May 2008. The company announced an initial inferred resource of 468.8 million ounces at 0.86g/t gold totalling 12.9 million ounces. La Colosa is the first major go...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: Munali Nickel Project, Zambia
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008. Munali Nickel Project, Zambia. The Munali project sits about 60km south of Lusaka in southern Zambia. It is wholly owned by Australian company Albidon Ltd, and currently consists of two deposits – Enterprise, also known as Munali Phase 1, and Voyager. Although it is billed as a nickel project, Munali also contains commercial quantities of copper, cobalt and platinum group metals (PGMs). The equity funding consists of $40m raised from Albidon shareholders, $15m from the Jinch...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: December 2008
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium Mine, Adelaide, Australia. In 2007 BHP Billiton announced that it would undertake a A$6bn–A$7bn expansion of the Olympic Dam mine. The company says that annual ore production will increase up to 70 million tonnes, a seven-fold increase if the expansion proceeds. Copper production will increase from approximately 180, 000t a year to approximately 730,000t. The deposit occurs in the basement rocks of the Stuart Shelf geological province in the north of...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: Kalgold Gold Mine, South Africa
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Monday, May 25, 2009. Kalgold Gold Mine, South Africa. Kalgold mine is an open pit operation owned by South Africa-based Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited. Located 60km south of the town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa, the mine includes a Carbon in Leach (CIL) plant. Production disruptions at Kalgold. Operations at the Kalgold mine are located within the Kraaipan Greenstone Belt near Mafikeng town. Shallow dipping quartz veins in the form of swarms or clusters within the steeply...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: La Colosa Gold Mine, Colombia
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009. La Colosa Gold Mine, Colombia. The La Colosa porphyry gold project is located 150km west of Colombia’s capital city, Bogota, in the district of Tolima. La Colosa is the second major greenfield discovery in Colombia. AngloGold Ashanti explored in the site in 2006, followed by initial JORC-compliant resource estimates in May 2008. The company announced an initial inferred resource of 468.8 million ounces at 0.86g/t gold totalling 12.9 million ounces. La Colosa is the first major go...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: January 2009
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Monday, January 19, 2009. Omagh Gold Project, United Kingdom. The Omagh gold project, situated in Crown Estate prospecting licence OM 1/03, covers an area of about 189km2, straddling the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh in western Northern Ireland. Omagh Minerals Ltd (OML), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian company Galantas Gold Corp, owns the freehold to the site as well as the prospecting and mining rights, planning consent and infrastructure. The licence includes a 72km2, partly fault-bounded, Lac...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: Blue Ridge PGE Project, South Africa
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008. Blue Ridge PGE Project, South Africa. Ridge Mining's Blue Ridge project is situated on the Blaauwbank farm, about 30km south-east of Groblersdal, on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), South Africa. Ridge Mining started exploration work on the project in 2001 and completed a feasibility study at the end of 2005. Mine development, estimated to cost $170m, began in January 2007. Total Measured, Indicated and Inferred resources are put at 89.9Mt, which incl...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: Omagh Gold Project, United Kingdom
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Monday, January 19, 2009. Omagh Gold Project, United Kingdom. The Omagh gold project, situated in Crown Estate prospecting licence OM 1/03, covers an area of about 189km2, straddling the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh in western Northern Ireland. Omagh Minerals Ltd (OML), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian company Galantas Gold Corp, owns the freehold to the site as well as the prospecting and mining rights, planning consent and infrastructure. The licence includes a 72km2, partly fault-bounded, Lac...
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Around of Mining and Metallurgy: May 2009
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Monday, May 25, 2009. Kalgold Gold Mine, South Africa. Kalgold mine is an open pit operation owned by South Africa-based Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited. Located 60km south of the town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa, the mine includes a Carbon in Leach (CIL) plant. Production disruptions at Kalgold. Operations at the Kalgold mine are located within the Kraaipan Greenstone Belt near Mafikeng town. Shallow dipping quartz veins in the form of swarms or clusters within the steeply...
