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Mount Carlton Comminution Circuit Design, Start-Up and Optimisation

The Mount Carlton project in Queensland's North East sits on a high-sulphidation epithermal style deposit rich in gold, copper, and silver.

4 October 2018

Mako Project Processing

The Mako Fold Project is located in south-eastern Senegal in the Kedougou region, close to the Gambia River and township of Mako.

25 June 2018

Kibali Gold Mine, Orientale

The Kibali gold mine is situated 560km north-east of Kisangani in the Orientale province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Developed in an area of 1,836km² on the Moto goldfields, the site is one of the largest gold mines of Africa.

22 July 2019

Bawdwin Lead-Silver Project

Bawdwin lead-silver project is a combined open-pit and underground project being developed in Myanmar.

31 May 2019

Yangibana Rare Earths Project, Gascoyne Region

The Yangibana Rare Earths Project, integrating nine mining licences (MLs), is located in Wanna Station, approximately 270km east-northeast of Carnarvon, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.

24 May 2019

Salamanca Uranium Project

Berkeley Energia’s wholly owned Salamanca Uranium Project is located near Madrid, approximately 70km from the Spanish city of Salamanca.

29 April 2019

Balama Graphite Project

The Balama Graphite Project, located on a 106km² mining concession within the Cabo Delgado province in the district of Namuno, northern Mozambique, is touted as being the world’s largest high-grade graphite deposit.

22 March 2019

Segilola Gold Project

The Segilola gold project is a high-grade gold project being developed in Osun, Nigeria.

4 March 2019

Selinsing Gold Mine

The Selinsing gold mine is an operating high-grade gold mine at Bukit Selinsing in Pahang State, Malaysia.

14 February 2019

Ixtaca Gold-Silver Project, Puebla

The Ixtaca gold-silver project is a precious metals project under development in the Puebla State of Mexico.

12 February 2019

Carrapateena Copper-Gold Project

Carrapateena copper-gold project is located on the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton in South Australia, approximately 160km from the Port Augusta.

8 February 2019

Yandal Gold Project

The Yandal gold project is a high-grade gold mine being developed approximately 83km from Leinster, Western Australia.

10 January 2019

Mt Todd Gold Project

The Mt Todd gold project is considered the biggest undeveloped gold resource in Australia.

11 December 2018

Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum Project, Pilbara

Pilbara Minerals’ wholly-owned Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum Project is located approximately 120km south of Port Hedland, Pilbara, Western Australia, and roughly 55km from its flagship Tabba Tabba Tantallum Project.

25 November 2018

Woodlark Gold Project

The Woodlark gold project is an open-pit mine being developed on Woodlark Island in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG).

22 November 2018

Hope Downs Iron Ore Mine

The Hope Downs mine is situated 100km north-west of Newman in the Pilbara region of Australia.

15 October 2018

Mako Gold Project

The Mako gold project in Eastern Senegal, Africa, includes a 90km² mining permit. Private gold exploration and development company Toro Gold is the project developer.

5 October 2018

Goulamina Lithium Project

The Goulamina lithium project is being developed by Birimian in Bougouni, in the Ségou region of southern-central Mali.

24 August 2018

Aurizona Gold Mine, Maranhao

The Aurizona Gold Mine, located within the Maranhão state in north-eastern Brazil, is owned by Mineracão Aurizona S.A. (MASA).

Sanbrado Gold Project

The Sanbrado gold project is a high-grade underground and open-pit operation located approximately 90km east-southeast of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso.

13 August 2018

Nolans Neodymium-Praseodymium Project

Australia-based mineral exploration company Arafura Resources is developing the Nolans neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) project, which is located approximately 135km north of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

22 June 2018

Tasiast Gold Mine

The Tasiast gold mine is located about 300km north of Nouakchott and 162km east-south-east of Nouâdhibou in the north-western Mauritania.

25 May 2018

Fekola Gold Project, Kayes Region

B2Gold is developing the Fekola gold deposit located within the Kayes region in south-western Mali, Africa.

11 May 2018

Yaoure Gold Project

Amara Mining Côte d’Ivoire (Amara) proposed to restart the historical Yaoure mine, which has been placed on care and maintenance since 2011 due to political uncertainty. Amara Mining Côte d’Ivoire (Amara, formerly Cluff Gold) acquired the mine in 2004.

4 May 2018

Borborema Gold Project, Rio Grande do Norte

The Borborema gold project located in Seridó region of Borborema, within Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, is being developed by Crusader Resources.

20 April 2018

Mount Morgans Gold Project

Mount Morgans gold project is a brownfield gold mine located 25km south-west of Laverton gold district, the second biggest gold province in Australia after Kalgoorlie. The Mount Morgans project is 100% owned by Dacian Gold.

22 March 2018

Arcadia Lithium Project, Harare

The Arcadia lithium project located near Harare, Zimbabwe, is considered to be one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium resources.

21 March 2018

Cerro Negro Gold Mine, Santa Cruz

The Cerro Negro gold mine located in Santa Cruz, Argentina, is owned and operated by Goldcorp. Construction of the mine began immediately after the approval of environmental impact assessment (EIA) report in December 2011.

2 March 2018

Nyanzaga Gold Project

The Nyanzaga gold project, located in the Lake Victoria Goldfields of Tanzania, is being developed by OreCorp.

13 February 2018

Dalgaranga Gold Project, Murchison

The Dalgaranga Gold Project is located approximately 70km north-west of Mt Magnet, within the Murchison gold mining district in Western Australia. The project will involve the development of the brownfield Gilbeys deposit and the greenfield Golden Wings deposit.

9 February 2018

Dugald River Mine, Queensland

The Dugald River zinc-lead-silver mine is situated 65km north-west of Cloncurry in Northern Queensland, Australia, and owned by MMG. It is one of the world’s biggest zinc-lead-silver deposits and comprises of high-grade minerals.

16 January 2018

Gruyere Gold Project, Melbourne

Located in the Yamarna Greenstone Belt, Gruyere Gold Deposit is situated on mining lease M38/1267, approximately 200km east of Laverton in Western Australia.

24 November 2017

Mahenge Graphite Project

Australia-based Black Rock Mining is developing the Mahenge Graphite Project in the Ulanga district of Tanzania.

21 November 2017

Phoenix Gold Project, Red Lake, Ontario

The Phoenix gold project involves the development of an underground mine in the Red Lake district of Ontario, Canada, which is one of the largest gold producing countries in the world.

14 September 2017

Bibiani Gold Project

The Bibiani gold project is an underground mine located in the western region of Ghana. The mineral concessions of the deposit are located approximately 80km south-west of Kumasi, the capital city of Ashanti Region.

7 September 2017

Montagne d’Or Gold Project

The Montagne d'Or gold mine is located in north-west French Guiana, approximately 180km west of its capital city, Cayenne.

9 August 2017

Copler Sulphide Expansion Project

The Çöpler open-pit gold mine in Turkey is being expanded to introduce pressure oxidation method to produce gold from the refractory sulphide ore.

11 June 2017

Browns Range Rare Earths Project

The Browns Range project, which is located approximately 160km south-east of Halls Creek in northern Western Australia, is the flagship project of Australian mining company, Northern Minerals.

16 May 2017

Volta Grande Gold Project, Altamira

The Volta Grande gold project is an advanced-stage exploration project located near Altamira in Para State, Brazil. It is fully owned and operated by Canadian company Belo Sun Mining.

16 February 2017

Natougou Gold Project

Located approximately 320km east of Ouagadougou, West Africa, the Natougou project is an advanced gold deposit in the Tapoa Permit Group.

22 January 2017

Damang Gold Mine

Spread across an area of 23,666ha, the Damang Gold mine is located 30km north of Tarkwa in South West Ghana. The mine is owned and operated by Abosso Goldfields (AGL), which is owned by Gold Fields Ghana Holdings (71.1%), IAMGOLD (18.9%) and the Ghanaian Government (10%).

20 November 2016

Matilda Gold Project

The Matilda gold project involves combined development of the Regent, the Matilda and Williamson gold mines, as well as deposits at the brownfield Wiluna mine.

26 October 2016

Hounde Gold Mine

Houndé gold mine is located 250km south-west of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou in West Africa. It is one of the highest quality development projects in the region.

26 September 2016

Karma Gold Mine

The Karma Gold Mine is an open-pit mine located 20km east of Ouahigouya and approximately 185km north-west of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

18 August 2016

Yatela Gold Mine

Yatela is an open-pit gold mine located 50km southwest of the city of Kayes in Mali. It covers an area of 195km² and is 80% owned by the Sadiola Exploration Company (SADEX).

16 June 2016

Yaramoko Gold Project, Ouagadougou

The Yaramoko gold mine is located 200km south-west of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

15 June 2016

Las Lagunas Gold Tailings Project

Las Lagunas Gold Tailings is a retreatment project involving the reprocessing of previously unrecovered gold and silver refractory tailings from the Pueblo Viejo mine.

12 May 2016

Panda Hill Niobium Project, Mbeya

The Panda Hill Niobium Project is located approximately 26km from the city of Mbeya, in south-western Tanzania.

25 April 2016

Yanfolila Gold Project

The Yanfolila Gold Project is located 40km west of the town of Yanfolila, in the Sikasso region of Mali.

1 March 2016

Mara Rosa Gold Project, Goiás

The Mara Rosa Project is a gold mine located in the Mara Rosa village, in the state of Goiás in Brazil. It includes 60,000ha of exploration permits and 2,600ha of mining permits.

21 February 2016

Meliadine Gold Project, Nunavut

The Meliadine Gold Project is located in the Kivalliq District of Nunavut, approximately 25km northwest of Rankin Inlet on the west coast of Hudson Bay, Canada.

3 January 2016

Moose River Consolidated (MRC) Project, Nova Scotia

Atlantic Gold’s Moose River Consolidated (MRC) Project involves the combined development of the Touquoy gold mine and the neighbouring Beaver Dam gold mine, both located in Nova Scotia, Canada.

29 October 2015

Black Butte Copper Project, Montana

Tintina Resources, a North American copper company, is developing the 100% owned and leased Black Butte copper project near Helena in Montana, US.

15 September 2015

Back River Gold Project, Kitikmeot, Nunavut

Sabina Gold & Silver (Sabina) is developing the Back River gold project in western Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, approximately 75km southwest of Bathurst Inlet, Canada.

9 September 2015

Soledad Mountain Gold-Silver Project, Mojave, Kern County, California

The Soledad Mountain gold-silver project is a fully permitted, open pit, heap-leach gold and silver project being developed in Mojave, Kern County, California, US.

3 September 2015

Haile Gold Mine, Lancaster County, South Carolina

Romarco is developing the Haile open-pit gold mine in Lancaster County, South Carolina, US. Feasibility study of the gold mining project was completed in February 2011.

20 August 2015

Gamsberg–Skorpion Integrated Project

The Gamsberg–Skorpion integrated project in Gamsberg, South Africa, includes the development of an open-pit zinc mine, concentrator plant and associated infrastructure, and the conversion of the Skorpion zinc refinery in Namibia.

12 August 2015

Rainy River Gold Project, Richardson Township, Ontario

New Gold's fully-owned Rainy River gold project is located in Richardson Township, approximately 65km north-west of Fort Frances in North-western Ontario, Canada , one of the world's ten biggest gold producing countries. New Gold gained control of the project by acquiring the final shares of Rainy River Resources on 15 October 2013.

31 May 2015

Wa Gold Project

Azumah Resources, a gold explorer and developer based in Perth, Australia, is the owner and developer of the Wa Gold project located in the north-western region of Ghana, along the border with Burkina Faso.

31 March 2015

Langer Heinrich Uranium Mine

Langer Heinrich Uranium Mine is an open-pit mine in the Namibia Desert, about 80km east of Walvis Bay, Namibia.

23 March 2015

Nova Nickel-Copper Project, Balladonia

Nova nickel-copper underground mine, located near Balladonia, Western Australia, lies within the Fraser Range joint venture.

5 March 2015

Red Chris Copper-Gold Mine, British Columbia

The Red Chris copper-gold mine is located approximately 80km south of Dease Lake in north-west British Columbia, Canada.

26 February 2015

Lumwana Copper Mine

Lumwana Mine is an open-cut copper mine project in the North West province of Zambia, 220km west of the Copperbelt and 65km west of the town of Solwezi.

19 January 2015

Cigar Lake Uranium Mine, Saskatchewan

Cigar Lake is the world's largest undeveloped uranium deposit. The mine is located in Saskatchewan, Canada.

4 January 2015

NorthMet Project, Minnesota

PolyMet Mining's NorthMet copper nickel platinum group metals (PGMs) project, located in northeastern Minnesota, US, will be the first ever mining project to commercially extract metals from Duluth Complex.

16 December 2014

Golden Grove Mine

The Golden Grove mine is located in Western Australia, approximately 450km northeast of Perth and 280km east of Geraldton.

8 December 2014

Frieda River Copper and Gold Project, Papua New Guinea

Frieda River Project is located in the Sandaun and East Sepik provinces of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the biggest copper and gold deposits in the Asia-Pacific region.

9 September 2014

Hidden Valley Gold-Silver Mine

Hidden Valley is an open pit gold-silver mine located in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. Newcrest and Harmony Gold Mining of South Africa own the mine through a 50/50 joint-venture (JV) called Hidden Valley JV (HVJV), which is one of three JVs between Newcrest Mining and Harmony Gold, collectively known as the Morobe Mining JVs (MMJV).

29 June 2014

Tulu Kapi Gold Project

Tulu Kapi Gold Mine is situated 28km east of Ayra-Gulliso town in the state of Oromia, Ethiopia.

25 June 2014

Simberi Gold Mine, Simberi Island

The Simberi gold mine is located on the Simberi Island in the Tabar Islands Group, New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Goro Nickel Project, South Pacific Island of New Caledonia

The Goro Nickel Project located on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia commenced production in August 2010.

18 June 2014

Bissett Creek Graphite Mine, Ontario

The Bissett Creek graphite mine, owned by Northern Graphite, is located between the cities of Ottawa and North Bay in Ontario, Canada, approximately 15km from the Trans-Canada pipeline and highway.

11 May 2014

Rossing South Uranium Project

The Rossing Uranium mine is located 70km north-east of Swakopmund in Namibia, Africa. It is the fifth largest producer of uranium in the world and accounts for about 8% of the world's uranium oxide production.

15 April 2014

Roy Hill Iron Ore Project, Pilbara

Roy Hill iron ore project is located in the Pilbara region of Australia. The mine is part of the Chichester Range in Western Australia and is the biggest undeveloped Marra Mamba deposit in the region.

26 March 2014

Tulawaka Gold Mine

Tulawaka Gold Mine is situated 160km south-west of Mwanza in the western part of the Lake Victoria Goldfield, in the United Republic of Tanzania.

25 March 2014

Mbalam Iron Ore Project

The Mbalam iron ore project includes the development of iron ore deposits in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, West Africa.

24 March 2014

Paracatu Mine

The Paracatu gold mine is located in Brazil, north of Paracatu city and nearly 230km from the capital city of Brazil, Brasília. Operations at the open pit property began in 1987.

4 March 2014

Lincoln Gold Project, California, US

Lincoln gold project is part of the Mother Lode gold belt in Amador County of the state of California, in the US. It is 100% owned and operated by Sutter Gold Mining.

Kansanshi Copper Mine

The Kansanshi mine in Zambia is the eight largest copper mine in the world, with two open pits. The property is located nearly 10km north of the Solwezi town and 180km northwest of the Copperbelt town of Chingola.

24 February 2014

Akyem Gold Mine

Akyem is an open-pit gold mine located in Birim North District in the Eastern region of Ghana, the seventh biggest gold producing country in the world.

5 February 2014

Cobre Panama Copper Mine

Cobre Panama is a large copper porphyry deposit located approximately 120km west of Panama City in the Donoso District in Panama.

3 February 2014

Agbaou Gold Mine

Agbaou Gold Mine is located approximately 200km northwest of the port city of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.

24 January 2014

Mt Carlton Mine

Mt Carlton is a gold-silver-copper mine located 150km south of Townsville in Queensland, Australia. It is a high-sulphidation epithermal style deposit discovered in 2006.

2 January 2014

Tropicana Gold Project

The Tropicana gold project is located in Western Australia on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert, approximately 330km east-north-east of Kalgoorlie.

6 November 2013

Christmas Creek Iron Ore Mine

Christmas Creek iron ore mine is operated by the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), Australia’s third-largest iron ore producer. The mine is part of FMG's mining operations.

22 October 2013

Kiruna Iron Ore Mine

With an ore body 4km long, 80m thick and reaching a depth of 2km, LKAB's Kiruna is the world's largest, most modern underground iron ore mine. Since mining began at the site over 100 years ago, Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB) has produced over 950Mt of ore, yet only one third of the original ore body has been extracted.

20 October 2013

Masbate Gold Mine

Masbate Gold Mine is on the island of Masbate, about 350km south of the Philippines capital, Manila.

13 October 2013

Nullagine Gold Mine

The Nullagine gold mine is an open-pit mine located in the East Pilbara District of Western Australia. Millennium Minerals fully owns the project and expects to produce 73,000 ounces of gold per annum from the mine.

29 July 2013

Prominent Hill Gold and Copper Mine

The Prominent Hill gold and copper mine is 650km north-west of the South Australian capital Adelaide, 130km north-west of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam and 130km south-east of the town of Coober Pedy in the Gawler Craton of South Australia.

7 May 2013

La Colosa Gold Project

The La Colosa porphyry gold project is located 150km west of Colombia’s capital city, Bogota, in the district of Tolima.

14 March 2013

Cadia East Underground Gold and Copper Mine, New South Wales

The Cadia East Underground gold and copper mine is the first Australian panel cave and the country's largest underground mine, with significant ore reserves and a projected lifespan of more than 30 years.

30 January 2013

Marikana Platinum Mine, Rustenburg, South Africa

Marikana is located near Rustenburg, about 112km from Johannesburg in South Africa. It is a producer of platinum group minerals (PGMs) and covers an area of 33km2. The mine was commissioned at the end of 2002 with an initial investment of R630m ($61m).

4 December 2012

Sabodala Large-Scale Gold Mine, Senegal

Sabodala is a large-scale gold mine located in the West African Birimian geological belt.

18 November 2012

Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium Mine, Adelaide, Australia

Olympic Dam is a huge mining centre in South Australia, 560km north-west of Adelaide. The site hosts an underground mine and an integrated metallurgical processing plant.

14 November 2012

Niobec Niobium Mine, Quebec

Niobec Niobium mine is located in the municipality of Saint-Honore in Quebec. The site is situated about 25km northwest of Saguenay region.

10 September 2012

Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine

Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine is located 100km away from the capital city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. It is the largest undeveloped gold mine in the world.

9 September 2012

Roseby Copper Project, Queensland

Altona Mining's Roseby Copper Project lies in northwestern Queensland, Australia. The copper / gold mine covers an area of 1,400 square kilometres and will be developed as an open pit operation.

22 July 2012

Wiluna Uranium Project, Mid West

Toro Energy's Wiluna uranium project lies 30km away from the town of Wiluna in Western Australia. The mine covers an area of 1,500ha.

3 June 2012

Etango Uranium Project, Erongo

Etango uranium project is located in the Erongo uranium province in Namibia. It is one of the largest undeveloped uranium mines in the world.

13 May 2012

Bulyanhulu Gold Mine, Kahama, Shinyanga

Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is situated 55km south of Lake Victoria in the district of Kahama, in the Shinyanga Region of the United Republic of Tanzania.

6 May 2012

Santo Domingo Iron-Copper-Gold Mine, Region III

Santo Domingo is a copper-iron-gold mine located near the town of Diego de Almagro in Region III of Chile. It is owned by Capstone and Korea Resources Corporation.

2 May 2012

Buzwagi Gold Mine, Shinyanga

Buzwagi Gold Mine is situated six kilometres south-east of the district of Kahama in the Shinyanga region, United Republic of Tanzania.

30 April 2012

Marandoo Iron Ore Mine, Pilbara

Marandoo iron ore mine is situated 35km east of Tom Price in the province of Pilbara, in Western Australia. It is 100% owned and operated by Hamersley Iron.

1 April 2012

Channar Iron Ore Mine, Pilbara

Channar iron ore mine is situated 17km south-east of Paraburdoo mine in the province of Pilbara, a region in Western Australia.

26 March 2012

Wilcherry Hill Iron Ore Mine Project

Wilcherry Hill iron ore project is located on the Eyre Peninsula in Southern Australia. IronClad Mining and Trafford Resources are developing the project.

25 March 2012

Bisha Project

Bisha Project is located at about 150km west of Asmara in Eritrea, East Africa. The mining project is a major deposit of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralisation.

29 January 2012

Plutonic Gold Mine

Plutonic Gold Mine is situated 180km north-east of Meekatharra in the state of Western Australia. The mine is 100% owned and operated by Canada's Barrick Gold Corporation.

12 January 2012

Cerro De Maimon Copper and Gold Mine

Cerro De Maimon Copper and Gold Mine is located 70km northwest of Santo Domingo in the Monseñor Nouel Province in the Dominican Republic.

21 December 2011

Konongo Gold Project

The Konongo Gold Project, located 200km northwest of Accra in Ghana, recommenced mining operations and poured its first gold in June 2011, within three months of approval.

6 December 2011

Sadiola Gold Mine, Mali

The Sadiola Mine is an open pit gold mine which has been operating since 1996 in Kayes, the capital region of Mali.

16 November 2011

Çöpler Gold Mine, Erzincan

Çöpler Gold is an open-pit mine located 550km east of Ankara and 120km south-west of the city of Erzincan in the eastern part of Turkey.

12 October 2011

Kanmantoo Copper Mine, Adelaide Hills

Kanmantoo Copper Mine is located 25km away from Mount Baker in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia.

21 September 2011

Jack Hills Iron Ore Project

Jack Hills Iron Ore project is owned and operated by Crosslands Resources, a 50-50 joint venture between Murchison Metals and Mitsubishi Development.

20 September 2011

Agnew Gold Mine, Waroonga

Agnew Gold Mine is located 1,000km northeast of Perth in Western Australia. It is owned and operated by South African

30 August 2011

Cloud Break Iron Ore Mine

The Cloud Break iron ore mine is located in Pilbara, Western Australia. The mine is owned and operated by Fortescue Meta

17 August 2011

Ok Tedi Mine, Oceania

The OK Tedi Mine is an open cut copper operation located in Papua New Guinea, close to the headwaters of the OK Tedi R

20 July 2011

Mineral Ridge Gold Project

The Mineral Ridge gold mine is located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The property was discovered in 1864 and mined until

7 July 2011

Hassai Gold Mine

The Hassai gold mine is an open pit mine located in the Red Sea Hills desert in north-eastern Sudan, approximately 50km

28 June 2011

Didipio Gold-Copper Project

The Didipio project is a high grade gold-copper mine development, located approximately 270km north-east of Manila in

20 June 2011

Trekkopje Uranium Mine

Trekkopje uranium mine is located in western Namibia in southern Africa, approximately 65km north-east of Swakopmund. Th

26 April 2011

Boseto Copper Project, Ngamiland, Kalahari Copper Belt

The Boseto copper mine is situated in Ngamiland in the Kalahari copper belt of north-west Botswana. The mine is 100% owned by Australia-based Discovery Metals.

23 March 2011

Zondereinde Mine

The Zondereinde mine is an underground operation located in Limpopo Province, South Africa. It is adjacent to the Am

10 November 2010

Doolgunna Copper-Gold Mine

The Doolgunna copper-gold mine is located in Western Australia, approximately 900km north of Perth and 150km north of Meekatharra in the peak hill mineral field.

15 September 2010

Marampa Haematite Iron Ore Mine

The Marampa mine is a brownfield haematite iron ore mine located approximately 150km north-east of Freetown in Sierra

11 August 2010

Fimiston Open Pit “Super Pit” Gold Mine

The Fimiston open pit mine, also known as Super Pit and Golden Mile, is the largest open pit gold mine in Australia, me

9 June 2010

Sukari Gold Mine

The Sukari gold project is located in the eastern desert of Egypt, approximately 23km south-west of Marsa Alam, a coa

27 May 2010

Lac Des Iles Mine

The Lac Des Illes mine is an open pit and underground operation located 85km from Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada. The mi

25 May 2010

Ranger Uranium Mine

The Ranger Uranium mine is located in Australia's Northern Territory, approximately 260km east of Darwin. Bordered by t

27 April 2010

Nokomis Mining Deposit, Minnesota

The Nokomis deposit is located south east of the town Ely in Minnesota, USA, on the western section of the Nokomis prope

29 March 2010

Challenger Gold Mine

The Challenger gold mine is located in South Australia, approximately 740km north-west of Adelaide, and is owned and ope

25 February 2010

Nullagine Iron Ore Project

The Nullagine iron ore deposit is an extensive mining licence portfolio located 140km north of Newman in the Pilbara reg

22 February 2010

Southern Ashanti Mine Gold Project, Ghana

The Southern Ashanti Gold Project (SAGP) is located 280km west of Accra, the capital city of Ghana, Africa. The project

29 November 2009

Freda Rebecca Gold Mine

Freda Rebecca gold mine, located 90km northeast of Harare in Zimbabwe, has proven reserves of 2.4 million tons (mt). The mine was closed in March 2007 for refurbishment.

23 November 2009

Atlas Wodgina Project

The Wodgina direct shipping ore (DSO) project is located 100km south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Au

28 September 2009

Copper Mountain Project

The Copper Mountain project is situated 15km south-west of Princeton, British Columbia, Canada. It covers around 18,000

Kittila Gold Mine

The Kittila gold mine is located 900km to the north of Helsinki, Finland, at the Suurikuusikko gold deposit.

9 September 2009

Solwara Project

The Solwara 1 project is located in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Nautilus Minerals Niugini, a subsi

26 July 2009

Forrestania Nickel Project

The Forrestania Nickel Project is located 400km east of Perth, in Western Australia. Flying Fox is the first mine to be developed at the project.

11 May 2009

Peak Hill Gold Mine

The Peak Hill Gold Mine, located 400km north-west of Sydney, was decommissioned in 2006. The mine occupied about 130ha o

28 April 2009

Kalgold Gold Mine

Kalgold mine is an open pit operation owned by South
Africa-based Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited. Located 60km
so

30 March 2009

Spence Copper Cathode Mine, Atacama Desert, Chile

BHP Billiton's Spence copper cathode project is located 1,700m above sea level in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile,

15 March 2009

Geita Open Pit Gold Mine, Mwanza, Tanzania

The Geita open pit gold mine is 80km south-west of the town of Mwanza in the north-west of Tanzania and is 100% owne

25 February 2009

Mt Muro Gold Deposit, Kalimantan, Indonesia

The Mt Muro Gold deposit is located in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan (Borneo) less than 100km south of the equator.

24 February 2009

Tritton Copper Mine, New South Wales, Australia

The Tritton copper mine is located near the town of Nyngan in central New South Wales, Australia, and is owned by Strait

8 February 2009

Boddington Gold Mine (BGM), Western Australia (WA)

Boddington Gold Mine (BGM) is located about 130km south-east of Perth in Western Australia. The largest gold mine in the country, it is poised to become the highest producing mine once production ramps up over the next few years.

30 November 2008

Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mine, Colorado Springs

The Cripple Creek and Victor gold mine (CC&V) lies southwest of Colorado Springs in the US state of Colorado. For many y

27 November 2008

Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, Lake Carey, Western Australia

The Sunrise Dam gold mine lies on the eastern shore of Lake Carey in the northern goldfields of Western Australia, some

26 November 2008

Worsley Alumina Refinery – Australia

The Worsley Alumina Refinery is named after the historic timber settlement of Worsley, near Collie in the south west cor

5 November 2008

Siguiri Gold Mine, Republic of Guinea, West Africa

The Siguiri gold mine is found within the Siguiri District in the north-east of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, abo

Platinum Australia Smokey Hills

The Smokey Hills Project is located on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) in the Limpopo Province, 3

6 October 2008

Northparkes Copper and Gold Mine – Australia

Northparkes Mines is a copper-gold mine near the remote Australian town of Goonumbla, about 27km north-north-west of Par

27 August 2008

BHP Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation, Australia

The Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation (Australia) was sold by BHP Billiton to First Quantum Minerals Australia on 9 December

13 August 2008

Ridgeway Gold and Copper Mine, New South Wales

The Ridgeway underground mine cave is located in the mineral-rich Cadia Valley province in central New South Wales. A go

Ovoot Tolgoi Coal Mine

The Ovoot Tolgoi mine is in the southwest corner of the Omnigovi Aimag (South Gobi province), within the Gurvantes Soum

13 July 2008

Sabodala Gold Project

Sabodala is located in Senegal, some 650km east of the capital Dakar. The project contains two deposits – Sabodala

San Bartolomé Silver Mine, Potosi

The San Bartolomé silver mine project is located just south of the city of Potosi, southern Bolivia, in the Cordill

24 June 2008

Martabe, North Sumatra

The Martabe Project is located on the western side of Sumatra Island in the North Sumatra province in the sub-district o

24 April 2008

Orezone/IAMGOLD Essakane Gold Mine

The government of Burkina Faso has passed a law that grants Canadian company Orezone Resources Inc's subsidiary Essakane

15 April 2008

Skorpion Zinc Mine

Inaugurated in September 2003, the Skorpion zinc operation in south-west Namibia comprises an open pit mine, mill and a

7 July 2006

Batu Hijau Copper-Gold Mine

Batu Hijau copper-gold mine is located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, 1,530k

5 October 2004

McArthur River Mine

In 1955, MIM discovered the Here's Your Chance (HYC) zinc-lead-silver deposit on the McArthur River Station, 900km south

26 November 2003

Mount Isa Lead, Zinc and Silver Mine

A 1923 silver-lead ore discovery in Queensland, Australia, lead to the formation of Mount Isa Mines and the development

Mount Isa Copper Mine

Mount Isa Mines (Xstrata 100%) operates two separate mining and processing streams, copper and zinc-lead-silver. Mount I

SNIM Open Pit Iron Ore Mining – Mauritania

Miferma (Mines de Fer de Mauritanie) was created in 1952 to exploit iron ore deposits in the Kedia d'Idjil area of north

22 November 2000

Gold Fields Ltd Gold Mine – Driefontein – South Africa

Driefontein is located in South Africa’s West Wits Line goldfield, about 60km south west of Johannesburg. Driefontein Co

12 June 2000

Gold Fields Ltd Gold Mine – Kloof – South Africa

The Kloof gold mine lies approximately 60km south west of Johannesburg and 20km from Carletonville, on the border of Gau

Boliden Zinc, Copper, Gold and Silver Mine

The Myra Falls mines are located in the Strathcona provincial park in the Myra Valley on Vancouver Island, British Colum

Placer Dome Gold Mine – Musselwhite – North West Ontario

Located 500km north of Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, Musselwhite was brought on stream in 1997 by a joint venture

3 April 2000

Stillwater Mining Company Platinum and Palladium Mine

The Stillwater platinum / palladium mine is in the Beartooth Mountains, 130km southwest of Billings, Montana, USA. It is

Boliden Copper Mine, Aitik, Sweden

Aitik copper mine is one of four mines owned by Boliden. Located near Gallivare, northern Sweden, the low-grade Aitik co

27 March 2000

Boliden Mining Company Gold Mines

In 1924, the Holmtjarn gold deposit was discovered at Boliden, near Skelleftea in northern Sweden. Soon after, the Bolid

Lihir Gold Mine, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

The Lihir gold mine is on the island of Lihir, in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) New Ireland Province, about 700km north east

Anaconda Nickel Ltd Nickel and Cobalt Mine

The Murrin Murrin nickel-cobalt project, 60km east of Leonora, was commissioned by Anaconda Nickel Ltd. The project is n

26 March 2000

Placer Dome Copper-Gold Mine – Osborne – Queensland Australia

The Osborne copper-gold mine is located 195km south east of Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia. Run as a fly-in, fly-out

Outokumpu Lead and Zinc Mine – Tara – Eire

Tara lead and zinc mine is located at Navan, County Meath, approximately 50km northwest of Dublin. The mine opened in 19

Gold Mine – Zarafshan-Newmont – Uzbekistan

Newmont Mining's announcement in July 2007 of an agreement which was to see it receive US$80m from the government of

North Ltd Zinc, Lead and Silver Mine

Exploiting a zinc-lead-silver orebody near Åkersund on Sweden's Lake Vättern, Zinkgruvan started underground

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Phosphate Mine

The Aurora phosphate operation is located at Lee Creek in Beaufort County, North Carolina, USA. The largest integrated p

22 March 2000

Cannington Silver and Lead Mine, Queensland

The Cannington silver mine is located in north-west Queensland, 200km south east of Mount Isa, near the township of McKi

Ngezi Platinum Group Metals Mine, Zimbabwe

Located about 150km southwest of Harare, Ngezi is Zimbabwe's principal platinum-group metals producer. Operated by Makwi

21 March 2000

Gold Mine – Kanowna Belle – Western Australia

Kanowna Belle gold mine is located some 20km north east of Kalgoorlie. Delta Gold NL and Geopeko Gold discovered the ore