COPPER

PIMS Group has received a contract, worth $310.6m (A$425m), to provide underground mining services for the Millennium and Mavis Downs coal site in Queensland, Australia. The five-year contract has been awarded by MetRes, a 50:50 joint venture between Stanmore Coal...

Nussir ASA, the private Norwegian company developing its 100% owned Nussir Copper Project in Kvalsund, Norway, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Hammerfest Municipality which confirms that Nussir has received support for...

Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) has secured approval from the regional environmental regulator to extend the operational life of its Radomiro Tomic mine until 2030. The approval from the Antofagasta Region Environmental Assessment Commission allows the company to...

MineWare says it has recently completed its first high-altitude installation of its Argus monitoring system at one of Chile’s largest copper mines. While technology continues to digitise and automate many mining processes – with the company recently helping a major...

Rio Tinto has flagged creating a major new copper and gold mining province in Western Australia and is looking to have the first of what could become multiple mines in production by 2023. The company is accelerating development of the...

Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper project in the US has achieved a major permitting milestone with the release of an independently prepared Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the project. The rigorous review, conducted by the US Forest Service over...

Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper project in the US has achieved a major permitting milestone with the release of an independently prepared Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the project. The rigorous review, conducted by the US Forest Service over...