Rivet Mining Services has gone into administration due to extreme weather events, labour shortages, project delays and rising costs. Mining services, which provides bulk haulage and ancillary onsite services to mining companies in WA, is the only business within the Rivet Group effected. Chris Hill, Vaughan Strawbridge and Hayden White from FTI Consulting have been …
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Roy Hill has awarded a $70m order to Epiroc to automate their mixed fleet, making it the world’s largest autonomous mine. The contact involves driverless conversion of 96 haul trucks, including 54 Caterpillar and 42 Hitachi trucks, and future trucks. MACA has been awarded a mining contract with Atlas Iron at their McPhee Creek …
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Lynas has secured $200m in investments from Japan Australia Rare Earths through a subscription of ordinary shares. Lynas CEO and managing director, Amanda Lacaze, said “JARE has been a valued and strategic partner to Lynas since 2011 and we welcome these new agreements which better reflect demand forecasts from the Japanese rare earths market.” …
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The Federal Government has prevented Chinese company Yuxiao Fund from raising its stake in Northern Minerals on grounds of national interest. Yuxiao Fund wanted to increase its holding from 9.92% to 19.9% but needed approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board. Northern Minerals has been focused on fine-tuning its heavy rare earths processing system through …
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The West Australia government fears heavy rains could wash polluted water from Alcoa mines into the state’s biggest dam, making the water undrinkable. The US aluminium giant that mines bauxite within 300 metres of the water’s edge at Serpentine Dam changed its methods about five years ago, increasing the risk of sediment flowing into the …
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Boss Energy has appointed James Davidson as general manager of its Honeymoon Uranium project and Jacobus van Rooyen as its construction manager. Boss Energy managing director, Duncan Craib said James Davidson “has immense experience across project management and construction, with particular emphasis on uranium metallurgy and operations.” Craib also said “Kobus is a team player, …
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St Barbara Minerals released their December quarterly report this week, with disappointing results. Consolidated gold production was down from 63,700oz in the September quarter to 60,976oz. The Leonora operations saw a reduction of gold production from 34,078oz last quarter to 32,175oz. The December quarter from the year before produced 16,462oz more gold than this quarter. …
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Hancock Energy has increased its offer to buy Warrego Energy from $0.28 cash per share to $0.36 cash per share, totalling $447m if the offer is approved. Three of the Four Warrego directors have recommended shareholders accept the deal over an offer made by Strike Energy, offering one Strike share for every Warrego share. …
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Surbiton Associates has announced Australian gold production for the September 22 quarter is down 9% from the June 22 quarter. The September quarter saw 76 tonnes compared to the 83 tonnes from the June quarter. Surbiton Associates director, Dr Sandra Close said gold production for the quarter is somewhat disappointing and stated “some wet weather …
What you missed in the news this week 4 Nov 2022
Rox Resources announced a 110% increase of production to 187koz Au since 2018. The increase is at their Mt Fisher and Mt Eureka gold projects in the Eastern Goldfields. Rio Tinto and BHP have joined forces to for research into technology to increase water recovery from mine tailings. They are currently trialling a large-volume …
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