The amount of gold produced by the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be four times the amount produced last year, thanks largely to the opening of the Kibali gold mine in May.

Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. announced Oct. 21 that new drilling at its 100%-owned San Miguel Project in northern Mexico is likely expanding the bulk minable resource in the San Francisco deposit.

Alexco Resource's Flame & Moth deposit has 1.5 million tonnes of mineralized material, above 500 grams per tonne.

Randgold owns and operates the Morila, Loulo and Gounkoto gold mines in Mali.

The miner beat estimates after logging a 16% jump in Q3 nickel production, taking total output of the metal this year to 201,400 metric tons.

Brokk remote-controlled demolition equipment brings Goliath-sized drilling power in a David-sized package for mining, demolition and tunneling applications with the latest TE160 hydraulic drifter rock drill from TEI Rock Drills.

As a technological pioneer LOESCHE is following on from the success of the largest coal mill LM 43.4 in India and the world's largest raw meal mill LM 69.6 in Nigeria. This latest triumph involves the largest slag mill in the world, which already produces 255 t/h blast-furnace slag meal in Taiyuan, northern China.

High resolution laser scanned height models may have revealed previously unrecorded First World War practice trenches. The LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) laser data, captured by aerial mapping company Bluesky, was commissioned by the Coal Authority as part of their research and development programme, which is looking at alternative ways to inspect mine entries in remote and rural areas.

The country is opening coal mining to private firms.