“This transaction also increases Newmont’s annual copper production – a metal vital for the new energy economy – and adds nearly 50 billion pounds of copper reserves and resources from Newcrest to our robust and balanced portfolio. We intend to quickly realize these opportunities to create superior value for our shareholders, workforce, host…

"The joint venture is in line with the global expansion strategy of Omnia Holdings. This marks the further execution of our strategy to seek growth in new markets through acquisitions and partnerships”. Seelan Gobalsamy, Group Chief Executive Officer, Omnia Holdings (parent company of BME). South Africa-based blasting and explosive solutions specialist BME has taken another significant step in its…

"We’ve not had a single incident caused by an autonomous machine. And in fact, the autonomous machines have prevented what may have been more serious incidents had they been conventionally operated."  Clayton Sanders ,   Head Of Autonomous Drilling, Quellaveco. On a dusty mine road high in the Andes Mountains, a monstrous truck the size of a house rumbles past with its load of 300 tons of ore. Glancing up…

“It’s been a long journey but in the process, we have secured the buy-in of all the stakeholders. For Barrick, the reopening of the mine would represent another victory for our host-country partnership model which has been so successful in Tanzania and has now also been adopted for the new Reko Diq copper-gold project in Pakistan” Mark Bristow,…