Mining

Mithril reported that step-out drilling has lengthened the defined mineralised strike along the Copalquin-Zaragoza structure, with mineralisation hosted in a pair of sub-parallel veins sitting a short distance apart. The company has been testing extensions of these veins in regular lateral steps along strike, …

Mosaic has mobilised a drill rig and crew to the island, with equipment transported by barge. The diamond drilling programme is designed to test the down-dip extensions of high-grade vein systems identified in surface trenches, targeting moderate depths beneath the exposed mineralisation. The company …

ESGold said the memorandum with Culture H. Dolbec Inc., a Québec-based company, sets out a framework to evaluate the supply and reuse of neutralised residue from Montauban as aggregate for potential construction applications. TheVolumereferenced in the agreement represents an upper limit for evaluation purposes …

The latest batch of holes forms part of the company's resource conversion programme at the Bralorne Gold Project this year. Drilling mainly targeted dip and strike extensions of major ore veins in Bralorne West, building on a larger set of holes reported earlier.

China overtook South Africa as the world's largest gold producer in the mid-noughties and has held that position since. According to the World Gold Council, China remained the largest producer last year, contributing a substantial share of global mine output.

The Gascoyne is better known today for tourism and pastoral activity than for mining. Its most notable historical gold operation was the Star of Mangaroon, which followed a pastoralist's discovery in the middle of the last century and produced high-grade gold over a period …

According to the SLR report, a very large tonnage of off-the-road tyres is buried on mine sites each year, and only a small fraction of mining tyres is recovered. The report notes that the mining sector generates the large majority of end-of-life off-the-road tyres …