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Child labor in the mining industry in the DRC at the heart of the debates at the Tom Santos Committee 1 Mining in DRC 

Child labor in the mining industry in the DRC at the heart of the debates at the Tom Santos Committee

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The Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights, a coalition of the United States House of Representatives, reserved a special session this Thursday on “child labor and human rights violations in the mining industry in the DRC”. This session will examine human rights violations in the mining sector in the DRC, including child and forced labor, disregard for worker safety and environmental degradation. It will also discuss the role played by outside actors, including Chinese and Russian companies, the corruption of government regulatory regimes in the DRC, and the impact on the… Read More Here
Caterpillar launches new Cat MineStar Reporting platform 2 Equipment & Technology International Mining technology 

Caterpillar launches new Cat MineStar Reporting platform

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Every piece of mining equipment constantly generates critical operating and production data that is used by Cat® MineStar™ products to enable miners to make better decisions. Historically, each MineStar capability – Fleet, Terrain, Health, etc. – has different reporting tools for this captured data. Caterpillar has launched its new Cat MineStar Reporting platform for MineStar Solutions, a powerful reporting and analytics product that can consolidate information from MineStar products. Currently, MineStar Reporting supports information from MineStar Fleet, Terrain, Health and Command for hauling. Support for MineStar Edge is currently underway,… Read More Here
Caledonia achieves record quarterly production in Zimbabwe 3 Gold 

Caledonia achieves record quarterly production in Zimbabwe

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Gold miner Caledonia Mining achieved record production of 20 091 oz at the Blanket gold mine, in Zimbabwe, for the quarter ended June 30. This was a 20% increase on the 16 710 oz produced in the second quarter of 2021. In the first half of the year 38 606 oz of gold was produced, about 29% more than the 29 907 oz produced in the first half of 2021. “Production in the first half of 2022 was excellent and exceeded our expectations.  Production excludes an estimate of approximately 1 500 oz of recoverable gold included in an… Read More Here
Jubilee commissions cobalt refining circuit in Zambia 4 Cobalt Copper Mining in Zambia 

Jubilee commissions cobalt refining circuit in Zambia

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Jubilee Metals Group PLC, a leader in metals processing with operations in Africa (AIM: JLP/Altx: JBL), is pleased to announce an update at its Zambian operations where the integration of the Sable Copper and Cobalt refinery with the newly constructed copper concentrator, Project Roan, continues as part of Jubilee’s Southern Refining Strategy. Highlights –      Cobalt refining circuit at the Sable Refinery entered the commissioning phase during June 2022 in line with original timing expectations, with first trial cobalt product produced per the expected commissioning and ramp up schedule: o  Commercial production is targeted… Read More Here
Rajant and Epiroc Announce Validation for Semi-Autonomous and Autonomous Surface Drilling Globally 5 Equipment & Technology International Mining technology 

Rajant and Epiroc Announce Validation for Semi-Autonomous and Autonomous Surface Drilling Globally

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Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Epiroc, a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, announce successful validation for both semi-autonomous and autonomous drilling. As part of the validation, deployment best practices guidelines were created to support the deployment of Epiroc drills with Rajant BreadCrumbs®. Epiroc has a permanent deployment at their test facility in South Africa to demonstrate semi-autonomous and autonomous drills using Rajant BreadCrumbs. Rajant is deployed on dozens of semi-autonomous and autonomous Epiroc drills globally, some of which include:… Read More Here
Gold price steadies near nine-month low as dollar rally powers on 6 Gold International 

Gold price steadies near nine-month low as dollar rally powers on

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Gold steadied near the lowest in more than nine months as the dollar edged higher in anticipation of US inflation data this week that’s set to shape the magnitude of the Federal Reserve’s next rate hike.  Investors concerned about the prospect of a global economic downturn have turned in droves to the greenback, which is already up more than 2% this month. That’s capped gold, despite support from an easing in US Treasury yields. “Any significant or lasting rise in the gold price is being precluded not only by the… Read More Here
ANGLO AMERICAN ANNOUNCES FIRST COPPER PRODUCTION FROM QUELLAVECO PROJECT IN PERU 7 Copper International New Mining Projects 

ANGLO AMERICAN ANNOUNCES FIRST COPPER PRODUCTION FROM QUELLAVECO PROJECT IN PERU

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Anglo American plc announces first production of copper concentrate from its Quellaveco project in Peru – a major milestone as Quellaveco nears completion ahead of receiving final regulatory clearance for commercial operations to begin. Tom McCulley, who has led Anglo American’s development of Quellaveco, said: “First copper production at Quellaveco is a key milestone in our delivery of this world-class asset, on time and on budget.  The fact that we are today producing copper less than four years after project approval, including through two years of considerable pandemic-related disruption, is… Read More Here
Zambia seeks out-of-court resolution to Vedanta dispute 8 Mining in Zambia Copper 

Zambia seeks out-of-court resolution to Vedanta dispute

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Zambia’s mines minister Paul Kabuswe has told state mining investment company ZCCM-IH to engage with Vedanta Resources in an effort to find an out-of-court resolution to their long-running dispute over Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), he said on Tuesday. “We must sit around the table and begin to discuss. We cannot solve these matters in court,” Kabuswe said at a press briefing streamed live on Facebook. “I have since given an instruction to ZCCM-IH to quickly tell their lawyers to reach out to Vedanta’s lawyers.” Vedanta spokesperson Masuzyo Ndhlovu said the mines minister’s comments are… Read More Here
COMMISSIONING OF 500MVA 330/220/33KV MUKUNI SUBSTATION IS ZESCO’S STEP FORWARD IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 9 Energy Mining in Zambia 

COMMISSIONING OF 500MVA 330/220/33KV MUKUNI SUBSTATION IS ZESCO’S STEP FORWARD IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

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We are pleased to announce the commissioning of the 500MVA 330/220/33KV Mukuni Substation in a quest to boost power supply to various sectors of our economy. The commissioning of this substation will significantly reduce the power deficit and deliver economic dividends to our people in the short and long term. Furthermore, this commissioning signifies the corporation’s positive steps towards the improvement of power supply and enhanced power trading among market players of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). It is worth noting that this project falls within the scope of… Read More Here
Mining products still down during this week from July 11 to 16, 2022 - DRC 10 Cobalt Copper Mining in DRC Zinc 

Mining products still down during this week from July 11 to 16, 2022 – DRC

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The general trend of export mining products from the Democratic Republic of Congo remains downward during this week from July 11 to 16, 2022, inform the projections of the National Mercurial Commission of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. This week, copper keeps its downward trend and is trading at 8,018.55 USD per ton against 8,442.25 USD per ton, a negative price difference of 423.7 USD. Cobalt remains stable on the market again this week at 87,781.05 USD per ton. Zinc is also down this week at 3,129.00 USD per ton… Read More Here

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