This month, we look at Xstrata Nickel, whose CFO, Shaun Usmar, spoke at the recent Canada-EU Forum in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, about the importance of nickel to both Canadian and European commodity futures. Usmar also provided an update about the upcoming year for Xstrata Nickel’s business. Xstrata Nickel’s mining ...
Unlocking the Potential of Australia's Final Frontier
The Tanami-Arunta region of Australia’s Northern Territory is a relatively under-explored locale. Today, it’s a region full of promise. And as Darren Holden, Managing Director at tier one gold and gold-copper junior, ABM Resources, of Nedlands Western Australia, says, “The final frontier for Australian gold.”ABM has put together a hefty ...
The Tanami-Arunta region of Australia’s Northern Territory is a relatively under-explored locale. Today, it’s a region full of promise. And as Darren Holden, Managing Director at tier one gold and gold-copper junior, ABM Resources, of Nedlands Western Australia, says, “The final frontier for Australian gold.”ABM has put together a hefty ...
Getting ahead in uranium
It’s a pretty opportune time to be in the uranium game, particularly if you’re in Australia; the country is home to 40 per cent of the world’s reserves. The nuclear energy renaissance is well under way, and the resource is getting more attention than ever. One company who knows exactly ...
It’s a pretty opportune time to be in the uranium game, particularly if you’re in Australia; the country is home to 40 per cent of the world’s reserves. The nuclear energy renaissance is well under way, and the resource is getting more attention than ever. One company who knows exactly ...
Mechanised mining and a year of de-risking
Following a happy year-long accord with Central Rand Gold (the gold prospector and miner operating in the Central Rand Goldfield of South Africa), IRJ has one word that could characterise the company’s activity—that word is “de-risking.”They are a pioneering bunch, and this past year have gone about introducing mechanised mining ...
Following a happy year-long accord with Central Rand Gold (the gold prospector and miner operating in the Central Rand Goldfield of South Africa), IRJ has one word that could characterise the company’s activity—that word is “de-risking.”They are a pioneering bunch, and this past year have gone about introducing mechanised mining ...
Going big
World renowned global engineering company FLSmidth doesn’t do anything small. With over 10,000 employees worldwide and branches in over 40 countries, the company is a goliath of industry. So it is fitting that the Canadian FLSmidth branch is making international waves for its work with ultra large mining equipment. ...
World renowned global engineering company FLSmidth doesn’t do anything small. With over 10,000 employees worldwide and branches in over 40 countries, the company is a goliath of industry. So it is fitting that the Canadian FLSmidth branch is making international waves for its work with ultra large mining equipment. ...
A reputable, profitable South African phosphate producer
Back in 1951, the South African government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the state-owned financing institution, created a company called Foskor (Then “Fosfaat Ontginnings Korporasie”). What began as a single mining operation with the sole purpose to make South Africa independent from any phosphate imports, has spent the past 50-plus years ...
Back in 1951, the South African government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the state-owned financing institution, created a company called Foskor (Then “Fosfaat Ontginnings Korporasie”). What began as a single mining operation with the sole purpose to make South Africa independent from any phosphate imports, has spent the past 50-plus years ...
Perfect political, project and pre-feasibility timing
As the Danish government lessens its control over Greenland, offering the arresting icy land further self-governance for its political future, the timing for one mining project simply couldn’t be better. This project belongs to Greenland Minerals and Energy Limited, a Perth-headquartered team of minerals industry experts, and is known ...
As the Danish government lessens its control over Greenland, offering the arresting icy land further self-governance for its political future, the timing for one mining project simply couldn’t be better. This project belongs to Greenland Minerals and Energy Limited, a Perth-headquartered team of minerals industry experts, and is known ...
A model lead-Zinc project
In North Greenland, the Citronen Fjord has received a great deal of attention for the zinc and lead mineralisation housed within it. It’s a dramatic place for mining, with an unforgiving and captivating terrain, increasingly governed by Greenland proper, in place of the Kingdom of Denmark who previously entirely controlled ...
In North Greenland, the Citronen Fjord has received a great deal of attention for the zinc and lead mineralisation housed within it. It’s a dramatic place for mining, with an unforgiving and captivating terrain, increasingly governed by Greenland proper, in place of the Kingdom of Denmark who previously entirely controlled ...
The highest standard of gold development
Koza Gold Operations Company is a Turkish company formed by 100 per cent Turkish capital to explore and operate gold mines in the country. In March 2005, KOZA Davetiye Magaza Isletmeleri ve Ihracat A.S. and Koza Ipek Holding A.S. acquired all the shares of Normandy Madencilik A.S. from Newmont Mining ...
Koza Gold Operations Company is a Turkish company formed by 100 per cent Turkish capital to explore and operate gold mines in the country. In March 2005, KOZA Davetiye Magaza Isletmeleri ve Ihracat A.S. and Koza Ipek Holding A.S. acquired all the shares of Normandy Madencilik A.S. from Newmont Mining ...
A perfectly-timed mineral sands project with tier 1 characteristics
When the Sabodala Gold Operation, located 650 kilometres east of Dakar in Senegal, West Africa, achieved its first gold pour back in March 2009, the big buzz around owners Mineral Deposits Limited (MDL) kicked off. The interesting part about it all is that this interest has been ongoing ever since. ...
When the Sabodala Gold Operation, located 650 kilometres east of Dakar in Senegal, West Africa, achieved its first gold pour back in March 2009, the big buzz around owners Mineral Deposits Limited (MDL) kicked off. The interesting part about it all is that this interest has been ongoing ever since. ...
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