Uranium Resources ‘successfully completes’ drilling programme at Tanzania prospect

Aim-listed uranium exploration and development company Uranium Resources, which operates in Tanzania, reports in its results for the six month period ending December 31, 2010, that it has made strong progress on all fronts in building an...

Nickel explorer secures further enviro permits for Philippines project

ASX- and Aim-listed nickel explorer Rusina Mining has been granted two additional environmental compliance certificates (ECC) for its Acoje nickel chromite project, in the Philippines. An ECC, which was issued the Philippines’ Department of...

Timmins Gold starts count down to first pour

Junior Timmins Gold expects to pour its first gold and silver dore bars in the next few weeks at the company's new San Francisco mine, in Sonora, Mexico. The gold plant is now operational and gold is being extracted from the pregnant solution,...

Pumps supplied to vanadium extraction operation

Diversified mining company Xstrata Alloys vanadium extraction operation Rhombus Vanadium (Rhovan) has installed a new pump at the operation’s precipitation plant.

Amapari mine, Brazil

A New Gold-owned mine, situated in Brazil.

Modified leaching process may slash uranium capex, says developer

A uranium ore leaching process that was left on the shelf after research conducted in the 1950s considered it too impractical may promise uranium processing capital expenditure savings of up to 60%, Stanprojects’ Johan Stander informs Mining...

IT improves efficiencies at gold-recovery plant

Industrial information technology (IT) and supply-chain solutions company Streamworks has concluded the implementation of an automation project at Ergo, a gold recovery plant of AngloGold.

Heap-leach leader

Minerals-processing specialist Metallurgical Design & Management (MDM), of Randburg – which played a central role in the development of Afrikander Lease’s new heap-leach facility – believes the venture further consolidates its...