by Gordon Barratt | Jun 26, 2020 | News
Looming legislative changes aimed at boosting protection for Aboriginal heritage sites in Western Australia are unlikely to prevent their destruction or stymie expansion by mining companies that are under intense pressure over their preservation practices. Rio Tinto...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 26, 2020 | News
The focus at Alotta is on the high-grade copper-palladium-platinum mineralisation intersected during drilling in October 2019, which returned a 4.1-metre zone of mineralisation hosted in feldspar porphyry from 55.3 metres downhole. Massive pyrrhotite with coarse...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 26, 2020 | News
Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC and its subsidiary Prairie Mines & Royalty ULC, have announced that it will be suspending operations at its Coal Valley Mine due to the significant constraints and challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of the...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 25, 2020 | News
Canada-based project partners Novagold and Barrick Gold have reopened the Donlin camp, in Alaska, and are remobilising drilling rigs at project, following a two-month hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic. Novagold reports that four drill rigs are turning at its...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 25, 2020 | News
Kalkaroo copper-gold project area The University of Sydney has released a report that maps out how Australia’s copper mining operations can target zero emissions within the next 30 years. The report, created by the university’s Warren Centre for advanced engineering...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 25, 2020 | News
Source: Porgera Joint Venture. Barrick Gold has flagged massive job losses at the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea after the country’s government refused to extend a mining lease at the site in April. An expected 2650 PNG nationals will have their jobs cut at...
