“Consistent progress” is the name of the game at Nevada Copper’s Pumpkin Hollow mine, with the miner reporting several changes and ramp-up advancements at the flagship complex in a new operational report.
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey appointed Paul Marsh to serve as Arizona state mine inspector upon Joe Hart’s retirement from Arizona state service. The position of state mine inspector dates back to the Arizona Constitution of 1912, the year Arizona became a state. Arizona is the only state that elects a mine inspector. “Paul Marsh has more than 25 years of…
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The annual national conference of Women in Mining USA was held Oct. 21-23 in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a lengthy wait thanks to the pandemic. The event was themed “Changing the Face of Mining” and convened at the Salt Lake City Marriott University Park. Day 1 was conference-style and offered a number of panels, speakers and roundtable discussions. A…
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Beumer has expanded its North American presence with the opening of a new office in Denver, Colo. The office is a result of Beumer’s merger of offices in Kansas City and Dallas. The Denver location will place the company closer to customers across business sectors, including mining, Beumer said. About 35 workplaces will populate the new office in Greenwood Village,…
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Lithium exploration company Cypress Development has completed the assembly of its pilot plant for the Clayton Valley lithium project in Nevada. The plant, which is located about 100 miles south of the project, first began construction in March 2021. Assembly and operational testing are complete and beginning next week crews will begin to test extraction of lithium from sample materials.…
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Copper-focused producer Capstone Mining has received a new mine plan of operations from the U.S. Forest Service for its Pinto Valley operation in Arizona – specifically, an extension to its mine life through 2039 that will allow for significantly more jobs and pounds of copper production. As part of a recent optimization project at the Pinto Valley mine, the shell…
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Colorado-headquartered miner Newmont and equipment producer Caterpillar have confirmed a new strategic alliance that will fast-track deployment of an all-electric autonomous haulage fleet and deliver a fully connected, automated, zero carbon emitting, end-to-end mining system. Under the deal’s outlines, Newmont will provide US$100 million in preliminary investment funds as the two begin drafting goals for the underground mining infrastructures and…
Read MoreThe Granite Creek project in Nevada – one of four projects being advanced by i-80 Gold – has made significant progress since being acquired in April 2021 and recently was given more positive news in the form of the project’s PEA report. The explorer said the new asset in Humboldt County has an after-tax net present value (NPV) of US$244.9…
Read MoreArizona-based explorer and miner Tombstone Exploration Corp. confirmed on Aug. 18 that, thanks to a positive run of production, it produced its second gold-silver dore bar at the Bonanza Harquahala mine in Salome. The company made the announcement in combination with Goldrock Resources and Bonanza Mining Co. The dore was stripped from Bonanza’s activated carbon by Metals Research and sent…
Read MoreFreeport-McMoRan (FCX) tapped Marcela Donadio and Sara Grootwassink Lewis to its board of directors. Donadio retired as a partner of Ernst & Young in 2014. From 2007 until her retirement in 2014, she served as Americas Oil and Gas Sector Leader. She served as audit partner for multiple companies with domestic and international operations in the natural resources sector and…
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