After 14 public hearings, the Montagne d'Or project is taking some steps forward.

TechMet Ltd., which controls just a handful of assets from Canada to Rwanda wants to help challenge China’s domination of the nascent industry.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which represents around 80 percent of the employees at the mine, will down tools on Friday.

The engineering team built off the innovative design of the P&H 4100XPC and applied fresh thinking on a larger scale to create the 4800XPC. Of course, they didn't simply make a bigger version of the previous model, they applied a smart design strategy that integrated the effective components of the previous machine and added structural and technological advancements to create something new.

The government is keen to develop the mine which holds an estimated 7.4 billion tonnes in reserves.

Nornickels consolidated copper output has risen by 20% to 290,878 tonnes in the first nine months of 2018.

Drill results returned high grades: up to 10 grams per tonne gold equivalent at 45 metres.

The advanced-stage gold-copper project features a near surface deposit of high-grade gold and copper.

Excelsior estimates it would initially produce 25 million lb. copper per year at Gunnison.