Stellar completes Heemskirk project scoping study
ASX-listed Stellar Resources has published details of a new scoping study on the Heemskirk deposit near Zeehan, Tasmania, in which it currently has a 60% holding with Gippsland Limited. The project, scheduled for a 2014 start-up, could produce some 3,900 tpy of...
Kasbah reports positive drilling results, but fires contractor
Kasbah Resources has reported "excellent" results from latest exploration work at its Achmmach tin project in Morocco, including some very high grade drill holes in the Gap zone between two target areas which have already been better demarcated. However the...
MSC and Traxys may partner on DR Congo project
Traxys may work with Malaysia Smelting Corporation to develop tin mining in DR Congo, Bloomberg reported. The involvement of Traxys, the Luxembourg-based global trading group, was identified in a contract published on the website of the country’s mines ministry....
Gippsland expands plans for Abu Dabbab project
Gippsland Limited has re-worked previous studies for the Abu Dabbab tantalum-tin project in Egypt based on a larger scale of operations than previously anticipated. The company now expects to mine 3 million tonnes of ore annually, 50% more than originally planned,...
Celeste to acquire stake, fund development at South Crofty
The Canadian listed Celeste Copper Corporation has agreed with the current owners of the old South Crofty mine in Cornwall, UK to fund exploration and development over the next year in return for a 25% stake in the project. Celeste’s initial financial input will be...
New Explorers & Developers Group launched by ITRI
ITRI is pleased to announce that from 1st June a new membership group for companies involved in tin exploration and development projects has been established. An initial meeting of companies committed to joining the group was held in Hangzhou, China on 25th May to...
MSC eyes DR Congo venture
Malaysia Smeting Corporation may take over mineral concessions in Maniema, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces from the government-owned miner Sakima, DR Congo Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu told Bloomberg News. “We expect to proceed with the total liquidation of...
Queensland alliance on tin development
Monto Minerals Ltd and Kagara Ltd have announced a deal to allow the start-up of production at Monto’s Baal Gammon copper-tin deposit as well as co-operation in the potential processing of tin ores at Kagara’s Mt Garnet copper processing plant. Kagara has agreed to...
Bolivian mining exports to top US$3 billion
Bolivia's mining exports could exceed US$ 3 billion in 2011 and could replace the natural gas as the country's main export item, local export association IBCE said yesterday. The mining exports totalled USD 1.383 billion in the first five months of 2011, IBCE said,...