Maracás vanadium project, Brazil

The 27 000 ha Maracás vanadium property, located south-west of Salvador, hosts the highest-grade known vanadium deposit in the world.

Kazakhmys expects first ore from Kazakh copper project in 2015

Copper-miner Kazakhmys expects the first ore from its Bozshakol project in north-eastern Kazakhstan will be produced by the end of 2015, the firm said on Thursday/ Contractor Aker Solutions has completed a draft feasibility study, and additional...

Bozshakol copper project, Kazakhstan

Bozshakol is one of the world's largest undeveloped copper deposits.

Aker Solutions forms Africa partnership with TWP

Norwegian-based Aker Solutions announced on Monday that it had signed a strategic partnership agreement with South African project house TWP to collaborate on projects in Africa. Aker Solution senior vice-president Johan Cnossen explained that in...

Kenmare plans to expand output at Mozambique mine

Ireland-based Kenmare Resources has initiated a detailed engineering study to further investigate the potential of increasing the output at its Moma mine, in Mozambique, to 1,2-million tons a year of ilmenite and associated products. The company...

Toromocho copper project, Peru

The project requires the development of a large openpit mine, with an ore processing rate of 117 200 t/d to produce copper concentrates.

Mindoro nickel project, Mindoro

Work is now proceeding on the definitive feasibility study for the Mindoro nickel project, following encouraging metallurgical results.

Molybdenum autoclave process (MAP) facility, US

The project will entail the construction of a new MAP facility at Rio Tinto's Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon operation, in Salt Lake City.

Mayskoye gold project, Russia

The project envisages an 850 000-t/y underground mining operation, with adit access to the upper levels and twin decline access to the lower levels of the deposit.