Sentences with phrase «grasberg open pit mine»

Local gold miner Red 5 says an earthquake registering 6.1 off the coast of Surigao del Norte was a possible contributing factor to the collapse of a wall into the open pit of its Siana project in the Philippines last week.

Doray Minerals has awarded Maca a $ 14 million contract for open pit mining work at its Deflector gold project in the Murchison region.

One year after buying the Thunderbox operations from Norilsk Nickel, Saracen Mineral Holdings has announced plans to develop an open pit gold mine that will double its production to about 300,000 ounces per annum by the 2017 financial year.

Local explorer Empire Resources is set to begin operations at its Penny's Find gold project near Kalgoorlie, after contracting NRW Holdings to undertake mining operations at the open pit.

The mining arm of Cimic Group has won a $ 137 million operations contract at the Encuentro Oxides open pit copper mine in Chile, in partnership with local mining equipment supplier Emeco Holdings.

This may open up toll treating options for Hammer to investigate low - cost, start - up satellite open pit mining operations in the region.

RECENTLY - LISTED local mining junior Bannerman Resources has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority rights to a uranium exploration portfolio situated in the southern African nation of Namibia in an area close to the world's largest open pit uranium mines.

The H4 «starter» project has been scoped as a 42,000 tonne - per - annum open pit operation, which is planned as the prelude to the development of the broader Reko Diq Complex, including the Western Porphyries copper - gold project.

Lithium ore (spodumene) at Greenbushes is mined from the fresh, unweathered zones in the pegmatite that are exposed in the open pits.

As a co-founding Director and Vice President of Bema Gold Corporation, he successfully identified significant open pit type heap leach gold reserves in the United States and Chile, including the Refugio deposit (6 to 8 million oz).

It will operate as a small open pit mine that uses a conventional carbon in leach circuit for gold recovery.

Because it has such near - surface zones of graphite, it's easy to define an open pit.»

Additional drill holes are planned for this target and other nearby targets as part of a program to delineate near surface zinc mineralization that could potentially be mined using open pit mining methods.

Joseph Campbell — Director As a professional geologist with 34 years of experience in exploration and mining, his roles included Exploration Manager, Mine Manager, Chief Mine Geologist of various gold and base metal mines, and Project Manager for advanced mine development projects, both open pit and underground.

Expected to become one of the world's largest open pit copper developments and Panama's biggest source of exports, the mine's first shipments are due in 2016, according to Minera Panama, a subsidiary of Canada's First Quantum Minerals TSX: FM.

She also said the company has suspended a pre-feasibility study of Pascua - Lama, an open pit gold, silver and copper mine in Chile, which regulators ordered permanently closed last year following court battles about environmental concerns.

Mineralization reportedly extends up to 250 metres below the base of the current open pit operation, which extends to 85m.

The Sleeper Gold Project is a former high - grade open pit gold producer located off a main highway about 25 miles from the town of Winnemucca.

Blackham Resources could soon take the mantle as Australia's next 100,000 ounce per year gold producer as the WA - based company kicks off open pit mining and underground development work at its Matilda gold project in WA's mid-west.

This will be analysed for the potential to exploit via underground methods in addition to likely expansions of the current open pit.

This reminds me of Exodus 21:33, 34 «If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.»

Not only did the trail cook use it for his open pit cooking, but the ranch cook used it to fire his wood stove.

Unlike traditional Jewish cooking where brisket is often braised as a pot roast or in Irish cooking where the brisket is turned into corned beef and then braised, barbecue brisket is usually «rubbed» with a combination of herbs and spices and then slowly smoked either over an open pit or in an enclosed smoker.

The only problem with that (aside from the fact that is 95 degrees out) is that she always topped her meatloaf with Open Pit.

Try searing some ground sirloin and instead of adding tomato paste, add Open Pit, throw in some black olives, mushrooms, cheddar and sour cream.

Open Pit was acquired by General Foods Corp. in 1960 and became part of Kraft Foods in 1989, when the two companies merged.

In the mid-1920s, the first commercially prepared barbecue sauce was manufactured by the Louis Maull Fish and Cheese Co. in St. Louis (the sauce is still made today) but it wasn't until the mid-1940s, when Open Pit was introduced to the food service market, that a commercially available sauce was offered nationally.

(Traditionally pit beef was cooked over an open pit but most roadside stands and restaurants now use grills instead of open pits.)

Open Pit was the leading sauce Today, Open Pit offers six flavors of its «original» style sauce and three flavors of the «Thick & Tangy» sauce that it introduced in 1986.

The open pits are dug four feet into the ground and are about 20 feet in length and 54 inches wide, he said.

Rio Tinto first discovered diamond deposits in the Chhatapur District of Madhya Pradesh in 2004 and subsequent economic viability studies have shown that an open pit mine could operate at a production rate that would place Madhya Pradesh in the top ten diamond producing regions of the world.

ALBANY — In 2013, New York voters were asked to consider an unusual constitutional amendment that could allow a private company, NYCO Minerals, to clear the middle of a forest in the Adirondack Mountains and create an open pit for mining.

A major milestone was achieved in July, when Oyu Tolgoi started shipping concentrate to customers from its open pit copper and gold mine in Mongolia.

Oyu Tolgoi copper - gold open pit mine and concentrator in production and consistently operating at more than 80 per cent of design capacity.

In the meantime, we will focus on the continued safe, efficient and cost - effective management and ramp - up of the open pit mine and sustained export of Oyu Tolgoi concentrate to customers in order to deliver the associated benefits for all stakeholders.

Mineral resources for the open pit exclude ore reserves and remain unchanged from those reported at 2010 year - end.

This investment follows the approval for US$ 238 million to advance studies extending the open pit life to 2028 and the purchase associated long - lead time equipment.

The two most common disposal practices for coal tar, dumping it into open pits or waterways, were obviously unsavory.

Back then, visitors would gather on bleachers around these open pits (also known as «lunch counters») to watch bears feed.

That waste, which contains microbes that can make humans sick, is collected in open pits or sprayed on fields as fertilizer, risking contamination of the air, water, and soil.

There were only bus stops that led to the nearest commuter train station and cranes leaning over the open pits of unfinished units.

But more often, workers fill open pits with crude oil and light them on fire.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

Those watery, open pits are the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes, which have infected the desperate miners with malaria by the tens of thousands.

An ideal solution would be «a modern equivalent of the chamber pot,» said Strash, one that would also tackle the cultural issues of handling human waste and move communities away from using open pit latrines.

In response to rising environmental concerns related to drilling waste, North Dakota's legislature passed a handful of new regulations this year, including a rule that bars storing wastewater in open pits.

These indicate that in the open pit at Rossing, levels of quartz dust have reached 20 or 30 times the international safety standard.

A spokeswoman for Statoil, which acquired Brigham, said the company stores only fresh water in open pits, not wastewater, and that «we can't remember ever having responded in such a manner» to a report about a spill.

The company agrees that «ambient dust exposures in the open pit and crushing areas can sometimes exceed the internationally agreed company limits», but says that «no employee is exposed to such conditions without the proper respiratory protection».

REE mining usually includes open pit mining, which is a source of three major contaminants: radionuclides (including thorium and uranium), dust, and metals.