Company Announcement: Marampa Iron Ore Signs Binding Heads Of Agreement For Infrastructure Access

Australian resources and investment company, Cape Lambert Resources Limited is pleased to advise it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement, confirming access to key transport infrastructure related to the development of its 100% owned Marampa...

Sundance signs infrastructure MoU for Mbalam

Iron-ore developer Sundance Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with fellow listed Equatorial Resources to share iron-ore infrastructure. Under the MoU, the two companies would examine how Equatorial, which owns the Badondo...

Infrastructure challenges hinder progress of coal sector

Sandton-based coal developer CIC Energy is keen to export coal from Botswana but says the country’s government urgently needs to make a decision concerning the implementation of the Trans-Kalahari railway line project, as the coal industry needs...

Company Announcement: Snaefell Resource Increases By 184%

IMX Resources Limited (ASX: IXR) (“IMX” or “the Company”) announces a substantially increased mineral resource estimate of 569Mt at 27.1% Fe using an 18% Fe cut-off grade (Table 1; Figure 1) at its wholly-owned Snaefell iron ore project in...

Tavan Tolgoi coal mine, Mongolia

The project involves large-scale opencut mining operations, in the Eastern Tsankhi area of the Tavan Tolgoi deposit in Mongolia’s South Gobi region.

Tavan Tolgoi to start mining in January

Australian project house Macmahon Holdings has been awarded a $500-million contract for coal mining operations at the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine, in Mongolia. Mining at the 7.5-billion ton Tavan Tolgoi deposit would start in January next year at a...

Equatorial buys 19.9% stake in African Iron, Cape Lambert slams move

ASX-listed Equatorial Resources has acquired a 19.9% interest in fellow-listed African Iron through the purchase of 95.4-million ordinary shares. African Iron holds an 80% interest in the Mayoko-Lekoumou iron-project, adjacent to Equatorial’s...

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Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.

Cliffs to decide this year on smelter site for Ontario chrome project

Cliffs Natural Resources wants to get its chromite project in Ontario's Ring of Fire moving as quickly as possible and expects a prefeasibility study, which means decisions on transport infrastructure and where to build a smelter, by around...

SA’s new infrastructure funding ‘paradigm’ to tap private sector – Gigaba

Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba has hinted to far greater collaboration between State-owned enterprises (SoEs) and the private sector in delivering much-needed economic infrastructure to support economic growth and job creation, as well...

New locomotives to help Transnet increase capacity

The first diesel-electric locomotives to be imported to sub-Saharan Africa were delivered to State-owned Transnet’s Koedoespoort manufacturing facility on Monday, as part of the freight logistic group’s fleet renewal plan and R110-billion...

Avalon talks to buyers on offtake for rare-earths mine

Avalon Rare Metals, which hopes to start up its Nechalacho project, in Canada's Northwest Territories, in late 2015, has had expressions of interest from parties in Japan, Korea, the US and Europe on potential offtake agreements, CEO Don Bubar...