Новости за 11.09.2019

TSX-V-listed Giyani Metals Corporation has launched a tender process to choose a professional mining contractor for reclamation work at the K.Hill and Otse manganese projects, in Botswana. Giyani has identified six professional mining and mineral processing contractors as potential candidates for the reclamation and processing work at both sites, after the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs approved the company’s environmental management plans.

Philippine nickel miners are likely to ramp up ore output by next year, but their production capacity is limited by a number of factors, including government-imposed mining curbs, the head of the local industry lobby group said on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation's nickel ore output may rise in 2020 mining season, but the volume is unlikely to return to the 2014 record-high level of about 50 million tonnes, said Dante Bravo, president of the Philippine Nickel Industry Association.

Zimbabwe’s State-owned Minerals Marketing Corporation opened a 316 000 ct diamond auction, which will close at the end of the week, an official said. “This is the third auction we have conducted this year as there were some administrative issues which were taking place within the organization," MMCZ’s GM Tongai Muzenda said by phone on Wednesday. The last auction was held in July, he said.

The Philippines' mining watchdog has recommended lifting the suspension of a small-sized nickel miner, one of several ore producers ordered in 2016 to halt operations in an industry-wide crackdown, a senior government official said on Wednesday. The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) recommended that Zambales Diversified Metals Corp - one of two nickel subsidiaries of DMCI Mining Corp - be allowed to resume mining operations, Environment Undersecretary Analiza Teh said.

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has urged the Queensland government to immediately approve the New Acland Stage 3 project, following a Court of Appeal decision in favour of miner New Hope. The Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled against an appeal made by activist group Oakey Coal Action Alliance, which challenged a Supreme Court decision to set aside a ruling from the Land Court, refusing mining lease applications for the New Acland Stage 3 project.

TSX-V-listed explorer Nevada Zinc this week closed financing with InCoR Holdings at a premium of 78% above the closing price of the company’s shares on September 9. The non-brokered private placement of common shares was completed at C$0.08 a share for proceeds of C$100 000.

ASX-listed Highfield Resources has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Swiss-based agri business Ameropa AG for the sale of 250 000 t of muriate of potash from the Muga mine, in Spain. “We are pleased to have signed this important offtake MoU, which is a further acknowledgement within the potash world that Highfields Muga mine will be an important first step in our commercialisation strategy and Ameropa brings extensive expertise and experience in the potash and fertilizer space,” said Highfield CEO Peter Albert.

Coal miner Australian Pacific Coal on Wednesday told shareholders that it is considering an appeal of the New South Wales’ Independent Planning Commission (IPC’s) decision not to extend the mine life of the Dartbook operation. The IPC in August green-lit the restart of the mothballed Dartbrook coal mine, in the Upper Hunter region, but took the decision not to extend the mine life by the requested five years, meaning that the project would only be allowed to run until December 2022.

Idaho-focused Integra Resources has published a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its DeLamar gold/silver project that outlines average yearly production of 124 000 oz of gold-equivalent at an all-in sustaining cost of $742/oz on a gold-equivalent basis. Over its ten-year life, the mine will deliver 1.03-million ounces of gold and 16.60-million ounces of silver.

A Brazilian iron-ore startup backed by a Kazakh mining company is in talks with several potential joint venture partners who would help finance a $2.6-billion mine project, its CEO said on Tuesday. Bamin, backed by unlisted global mining and metals group Eurasian Resources Group, is talking to a consortium comprising three different Chinese companies, CEO Eduardo Ledsham told Reuters, confirming earlier media reports.