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Bellevue Achieves Key Milestone with Completion of Mine Camp

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Bellevue Achieves Key Milestone with Completion of Mine Camp

Bellevue Gold Limited (ASX:BGL) has completed construction of the 343-person camp at its Bellevue Gold Project in WA. Bellevue Gold said that completion of the camp, along with the other strong progressions being made on site, positions Bellevue for production in the second half of CY2023. Bellevue Managing Director Steve Parsons said: “Completion of the camp marks another important milestone for the project and ensures that we continue to run on time and on budget. “The camp design and key features were based on feedback from staff to ensure it meets their requirements for a modern, safe, comfortable and healthy environment. This will also benefit the company because it will help us to attract...

NSW GOVERNMENT OFFERS MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL MINERALS PROJECTS

NSW GOVERNMENT OFFERS MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL MINERALS PROJECTS

The NSW Government is offering grants of up to $10 million for key infrastructure needed to progress new mining and processing projects to accelerate the critical minerals sector. Stream Two of the NSW Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Activation Fund provides between $2 million and $10 million for key enabling infrastructure, such as heavy haulage modifications, road upgrades, water or power upgrades, and processing facilities, to help explorers and mining companies set up and operate in NSW. Deputy Premier and Minister responsible for resources Paul Toole said the unprecedented investment would help secure an ongoing pipeline of critical minerals and high-tech metals into the future, positioning the State as a major global supplier. “Critical minerals represent the future of mining...

Red 5 On Target With KOTH Mining Kick Off

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Red 5 On Target With KOTH Mining Kick Off

Red 5 Limited’s (ASX: RED) mining contractor, Macmahon Contractors Pty Ltd has commenced open pit mining at the 100%-owned 2.4Moz, 16-year life-of-mine King of the Hills (KOTH) Gold Project in Western Australia. With the KOTH Project now well past 83% completion (at the end of December 2021), Red 5 is firmly on track to deliver first gold production through the new state-of-the-art KOTH processing plant in the June Quarter. The commencement of open pit mining is in-line with the project execution schedule, with underground mining expected to commence on schedule in early April 2022. Macmahon is progressively mobilising to KOTH, establishing infrastructure, and ramping up its site workforce according to plan. The initial open pit mining fleet consists of one...

Coal In-situ Conversion

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Coal In-situ Conversion

COAL IN-SITU CONVERSION (ISC) A Commercial Challenge Review Introduction In-situ conversion (ISC) of coal, also referred to as underground coal gasification (UCG) and in-situ coal gasification (ISG), is an industry process by which a coal seam is converted into a product gas, by combusting, pyrolysing and gasifying the coal in-situ in the presence of an oxidant, after the coal is ignited. The product gas is typically referred to as synthesis gas or syngas and can be used as a feedstock for various applications, including fuels, fertilisers and chemicals production, including power co-generation or power only generation. A coal seam having injection and production wells with a substantially horizontal wellbore linking the two is typically referred to as an in-situ coal...

Hellyer gold mine: Hellyer on a high

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Hellyer gold mine: Hellyer on a high

The Hellyer gold mine near Beaconsfield in Tasmania has been revived by NQ Minerals, which is mining a waste tailings resource predicted to generate $706m over a 10-year mine life. The company ramped up to production late in 2018 after acquiring the mine and its assets in 2017, and is looking for the next big project. NORTHERN Queensland Minerals (NQ Minerals) will see out its inaugural year of production at its flagship, 100pc-owned Hellyer mine on a high note. The company acquired Hellyer gold mine, an 8mt reserve of high-grade tailings, in 2017, and after a relatively short ramp-up period, started production late in 2018 dredging the tailings for lead, zinc and precious metals concentrates. The project has a 10-year...

Boonanarring: A strong start

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Boonanarring: A strong start

IMAGE Resources' 100pc-owned, high-grade, zircon-rich Boonanarring mineral sands project, 80km north of Perth, exceeded nameplate capacity in the second month of operation in January 2019. The company achieved profitability in Q1 and was cashflow positive in Q2. At Q3, the company had produced 201.4kt heavy mineral concentrate (HMC) for the year, with full-year guidance lifted to 260-280kt HMC, which the company said reflected the “better than expected operation performance”. The company’s ore processing rates had benefited significantly from the installation of a larger trommel at the feed preparation plant in August, which allowed for an 11pc increase in Q3 to hit 874kt. Image Resources managing director, Patrick Mutz, said that the success of the project in its first year of...

Port Waratah: Safety First

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Port Waratah: Safety First

PORT Waratah Coal Services owns and manages both the Kooragang and Carrington Coal Terminals, which have a combined capacity of 145mtpa, and employs about 350 people across the 24/7 business. At October 31, exported 92,021,793t of coal from both the Carrington and Kooragang terminals, up from 90,454,527t at 2018, with Carrington contributing 12,190816t. and Kooragang contributing 79,878,238t. Fires temporarily closed the rail network that supplied both the port of on November 12, and the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) said that there was no damage to assets and services gradually began to resume operation from 7:45 until the morning of November 13. “ARTC continues to monitor conditions regarding train operations on its network in NSW and is working with operators...

Nickel West: Demand driving growth

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Nickel West: Demand driving growth

DEMAND for nickel has increased on the back of the growing electric vehicle (EV) industry, and BHP is now pushing forward at its Nickel West operations in Western Australia. Nickel West has made significant progress in FY2019 on its transition to become a leading supplier to the battery materials market – from selling zero nickel to the batter market in 2015 to selling more than 75pc of its production to global battery material suppliers this year. BHP’s operational review for the September quarter showed production on site increased by one per cent to 22kt, reflecting higher volumes at the Kalgoorlie smelter following the fire in September last year. The company has commenced construction of a nickel sulphate plant at the...

New Century Resources: Ramping up

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New Century Resources: Ramping up

SINCE acquiring the Century Zinc mine from MMG in 2016, New Century Resources has brought the site back into production and is set to ramp up to 12mtpa by March 2020. The focus has been on the existing ore reserves to produce zinc in the lowest cost quartile globally – with substantial mineral resources on the mining leases (including more than 2,200,000t of JORC compliant zinc metal equivalent resources located within mineralised tailings, and around 1,000,000t of JORC compliant zinc and lead resources in the Silver King, South Block and East Fault Block base metal deposits) offering a the potential for mine life extension and metal production increases from the mine’s operations. The mine concentrate continues to achieve relatively low...

Byerwen Coal: New kid on the block

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Byerwen Coal: New kid on the block

AUSTRALIA’S newest coking coal mine, the $1.76b Byerwen coalmine, officially opened on September 17. Currently operating at 3mtpa, it will ramp up to its nameplate capacity of 10mtpa coking coal after a significant site expansion. The open cut mine in the Northern Bowen Basin, about 20km west of Glenden, has employed about 1000 people during construction and the mine will have a permanent workforce of more than 500 people during operations. The mine comprises four mining areas with a total of 18 open-cut pits, two coal handling and preparation plants, two train loading facilities, including rail loop and spur lines, connected to the existing line to Abbot Point, and an augmented power supply. It is a JV between QCoal and...

All bodes well for Boddington

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All bodes well for Boddington

IT’S a new era for Newmont Goldcorp, with Tom Palmer taking up the reins as the company’s chief executive officer in October 1. And while it’s business as usual for the world’s leading gold company, Mr Palmer said he planned on building on Newmont’s proven growth strategy. “Newmont remains focussed on keeping our people safe, while growing our profit margins through operating, technical and financial discipline,” he said. To do so, Mr Palmer plans to advance the company’s most profitable projects while investing in exploration across cycles. Newmont Goldcorp has strong and sustainable portfolio of operations, projects and exploration prospects in the gold sector, with about 90pc of the miner’s reserves located in the Americas and Australia, and other projects...