The iron road to excellence The Eyre Peninsula, running the coast of the Southern Ocean in South Australia, has been a well-established iron mining hotspot for many years now. Discovered in the 1870s, this impressive resource-bountiful region plays host to projects from some of the world’s most e... Read More
AMEC MINPROC
The right people, and the right places When AMEC plc., the UK-based natural resources consultancy, engineering and project management services giant, acquired Minproc, of Australia, it was truly a perfect match. Established in Australia in 1978 to provide engineering services to the gold mining ind... Read More
Linc Energy
Fuelling our future It’s been hotly-tipped as the next big thing in energy in Australia; taking underground coal gasification (UGC), a method of coal mining initially coined in the USSR, and potentially changing the face of coal mining. To list but a few of its plus points, it requires little or ... Read More
Hill End Gold
Making high-grade breakthroughs Sceptics in the northeastern Lachlan Fold Belt of New South Wales, Australia said it couldn’t be done—that the patterns of mineralisation for the enviably high grades of the Hargraves project were just too erratic to mine. But they were wrong. Hill End Gold (HEG)... Read More
Discovery Metals Ltd
Developing Botswana’s biggest copper mine In May 2003, Discovery Nickel was formed. Prompted by new opportunities to explore some of the former Falconbridge exploration prospects following the company’s incorporation into Xstrata, Discovery Nickel began with the Falconbridge Dikoloti nickel pro... Read More
Murchison Metals Limited
Australian Iron Ore Leaders In 1966, the first shipment of iron ore in Australia made its way out from the port of Geraldton, and into the mid-west region of Western Australia. If only those early miners had known how the landscape would be set to drastically change today, with the planned developm... Read More
Navigator Resources
Navigator Resources goes from explorer to producer We couldn’t have arranged to speak with Navigator Resources, an emerging explorer-turned-producer from West Perth, Western Australia, at a more opportune time. As the company is set to make a string of exciting announcements on the Australian Sec... Read More
