August 6, 2019

The rocky road to achieving fully autonomous mines

A new Clareo report argues that systems of the major OEMs are a barrier to implementation, and unless something changes, achieving a fully autonomous mine will remain a distant vision.

August 6, 2019

Centaurus Metals to acquire nickel sulphide project from Vale

The deal also includes the transfer of the Salobo West copper-gold project tenements to Vale.

August 6, 2019

Aussie tech company opens tailing dams monitoring centre in Chile

GroundProbe's centre monitors live slope stability data and reacts to alarms.

August 5, 2019

Iron ore futures down

Ore for September closed around 7.3% lower at $95.63 a tonne in Singapore. Benchmark spot material dropped to $99.50 a tonne on Monday.

August 5, 2019

The top miners are split on how to chase the EV battery boom

Big names like BHP and Glencore can't seem to agree on which metals will deliver the best long-term exposure to the developing global market.

August 4, 2019

Chinese company to invest $180m in lithium plant in Argentina

Tibet Summit Resources is tackling the Salar de Diablillos salt flat in the northwestern part of the country.

August 2, 2019

Gold price surges to record high in 73 currencies

Including all-time peaks in pound sterling, Canadian, Australian dollar and a USD six-year high in New York on Friday.

August 1, 2019

Pan American Silver stock surges on drill success at La Colorada

Pan American plans to complete a 50,000 metre drill program and review the results of a 12 km magnetotellurics geophysics survey in 2019.

August 1, 2019

Iamgold reports incident at Rosebel, mining activity suspended

This is not the first time that operations at Rosebel were involuntarily suspended.

August 1, 2019

Appian appoints former Anglo exec to lead Brazil operations

The firm has also completed a definitive feasibility study for its Serrote copper-gold project in Brazil.