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MINING ENGINEER | MINING CAREER AT FQM, KALUMBILA, SOLWEZI, ZAMBIA 1 Mining Careers Mining in Zambia 

MINING ENGINEER | MINING CAREER AT FQM, KALUMBILA, SOLWEZI, ZAMBIA

Requisition Number: JR3889| Country: Zambia | Contract Type: Fixed Term| Location: Solwezi | Category: Mining Apply now Purpose of the role: The Mining Engineer is responsible and accountable for delivering and controlling a short term mine plan that is in line with the medium term plan including Dumps, Projects and services planning. This includes any mine design requirement. Key Duties and Responsibilities: Mine production scheduling and alignment to the medium term plan to achieve desired outcomes Short term waste dump design changes from life of mine designs Dump scheduling, inspection and alignment to the medium term plan to… Read More Here
Red Rock completes RC drill programme at Luanshimba 2 Copper Cobalt Drilling Mining in DRC 

Red Rock completes RC drill programme at Luanshimba

Natural resource development company Red Rock Resources has completed a reverse circulation (RC) drill programme at the Luanshimba copper/cobalt project in the Haut-Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Luanshimba project is operated by Red Rock Galaxy, an 80%-owned Congolese subsidiary of Red Rock. Three prospects were drilled, at Kilembwe South, Kilembwe East and Bukulu. There were 2 763 samples, including quality assurance or quality control samples prepared at ALS Global’s preparation laboratory before sending in batches to the ALS laboratory in South Africa for analysis. The majority of assay results have been received, but those from… Read More Here
DRC - Mines: Minister launces the SICOMINES Contract evolution and signs memo with the with United Arab Emirates. 3 Mining in DRC 

DRC – Mines: Minister launces the SICOMINES Contract evolution and signs memo with the with United Arab Emirates.

The Minister of Mines, Antoinette N’Samba Kalambayi signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation between the DRC and the United Arab Emirates in the mining sector. It was during his stay, from September 29 to October 1 in Abu Dhabi, at the invitation of the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of the United Arab Emirates, Suhahil Mohamed Al Marzouel, sources from the Ministry of Mines reveal. As soon as she returned home, she launched the evaluation of the SICOMINES contract. Through this document, the emphasis was placed on sincere cooperation between the… Read More Here
Mining Cadastre Register currently has 1,901 Exploration Permits, 223 forfeited for non-payment of rights-DRC 4 Mining in DRC Mining Companies 

Mining Cadastre Register currently has 1,901 Exploration Permits, 223 forfeited for non-payment of rights-DRC

During the meeting of the Council of Ministers last Friday, Antoinette N’Samba Kalambayi, Minister of Mines, reported that the Mining Cadastre Register counts, as of September 21, 2021, a total of 1,901 Exploration Permits, of which 223 have expired. for non-payment of surface rights (fiscal year 2021), 156 forfeited and 774 active research permits. She recalled that any exploration permit confers on its holder the right to carry out exclusively research work and not exploitation work, within its perimeter. Moreover, the holder is required to pay the annual surface rights; to present… Read More Here
DRC: economic growth stands at 5.3% at the end of 2021 and remains driven by the mining sector (Governor BCC) 5 Mining in DRC 

DRC: economic growth stands at 5.3% at the end of 2021 and remains driven by the mining sector (Governor BCC)

In her communication during the 23rd meeting of the Council of Ministers, the Governor of the Central Bank of Congo (BCC), Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi, indicated that economic growth remains mainly driven by the mining sector and it stands at 5 , 3% at the end of 2021. “The goods and services market remained stable with an annual cumulative inflation of 3.39% at the end of September 2021 while it was around 14% in 2020”, notes the report of the Council of Ministers . The foreign exchange market remained broadly stable,… Read More Here
Hydro project set to boost green credentials of giant DRC copper complex 6 Energy Mining in DRC 

Hydro project set to boost green credentials of giant DRC copper complex

While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among the greenest of copper mines. This is largely on the back of the project being completely powered by hydroelectricity, and the intention to implement a switchover to electric mining vehicles, Kamoa Copper CEO Mark Farren tells Engineering News & Mining Weekly. Kamoa Copper, in the Kolwezi copper district of the DRC’s Lualaba province, is a joint venture between Ivanhoe (39.6%), Zijin… Read More Here
Kibali continues to advance automated mining- DRC 7 Mining in DRC Equipment & Technology Gold Mining technology 

Kibali continues to advance automated mining- DRC

The Kibali gold mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, remains on track to achieve its production guidance for the full-year and grow its mineral reserves net of depletion, securing its future as a Tier 1 operation for at least another ten years, Barrick president and CE Mark Bristow has said. Speaking at a tour of the complex for government, community and media representatives, Bristow said the company had continued investment in technological innovation, which was keeping Kibali at the forefront of developments in automated mining. Machine learning has been implemented at… Read More Here
BEMETALS IDENTIFIES COMPELLING COPPER EXPLORATION TARGETS AT PANGENI PROJECT IN ZAMBIA 8 Mining in Zambia Copper New Mining Projects 

BEMETALS IDENTIFIES COMPELLING COPPER EXPLORATION TARGETS AT PANGENI PROJECT IN ZAMBIA

BeMetals Corp. is pleased to announce the results from a phase of some 4,350 metres of shallow aircore drilling recently completed at the Pangeni Copper Project (“Project” or the “Property”) in Zambia. This aircore program was designed to explore for extensions of copper mineralization discovered by the Company under thin Kalahari sand cover at several prospects, including the D Prospect, and to test several newly generated copper targets. The Pangeni Project is located in an area representing westerly extensions to the prolific Zambian Copperbelt. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2021 PANGENI PROJECT… Read More Here
ABOUT COMPANY: THE PANGENI COPPER PROJECT 9 About Company Mining in Zambia 

ABOUT COMPANY: THE PANGENI COPPER PROJECT

The Pangeni Project is located on the western extension of the Zambian Copperbelt, within the Lufilian Arc, underlain by Katangan Supergroup metasediments situated unconformably on basement schists and gneisses, which are covered by a thin veneer of Kalahari sands. The open pit Sentinel Copper Mine is operated by First Quantum Minerals Ltd. some 130 kilometres to the northeast of the Pangeni Project (See Figure 3). A number of major international mining companies have identified this region of the Zambian Copperbelt to be prospective for the discovery of tier one copper… Read More Here
ABOUT COMPANY: BEMETALS CORP. 10 About Company 

ABOUT COMPANY: BEMETALS CORP.

BeMetals is a precious and base metals exploration and development company focused on becoming a leading metal producer through the acquisition of quality exploration, development and potentially production stage projects. The Company has recently established itself in the gold sector with the acquisition of certain wholly owned exploration projects in Japan. BeMetals is also progressing both its advanced high-grade, zinc-silver-gold-copper polymetallic underground exploration at the South Mountain Project in Idaho through a preliminary economic assessment, and its tier-one targeted, Pangeni Copper Exploration Project in Zambia.  Guiding and leading BeMetals’ growth… Read More Here

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