Breaker Resources – Lake Roe Project
Introduction Breaker Resources (ASX: BRB) is a company exploring the eastern goldfields superterrane of Western Australia, and they have recently […]
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Ivanhoe Mines Kamoa-Kakula Project
When we write about great deposits they are most often well known mines with long established pedigrees and histories of daring
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Balmoral Resources – Martinière Project
Introduction There is something visceral about seeing a shoot of pure gold in drill core. It speaks to a deep
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Mining Methods: Block Caving
What is Block Caving? Block (gravity) caving is a bulk underground mining method, which allows large low-grade deposits to be
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Molybdenum: Commodity Overview
Introduction Molybdenum (Mo, Atomic number 42) is a silvery grey metal, notable for its extremely high melting point (2623°C). It
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Largest Gold Deposits in the World – Witwatersrand Gold Fields
Introduction The gold fields of the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa are, by a landslide, the largest single gold producing
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Great Deposits – Alaska’s Pebble Copper-Gold Deposit
There are big deposits and then there are supermassive deposits. A big deposit will have a good 20-40 year resource life at with
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GoldQuest Mining Corporation – Romero Project
Exploration for mineral deposits is hard. Promising geochemistry can lead nowhere, geophysical anomalies can remain anomalous, alteration zones can get
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Thomson Resources – Bygoo Tin Project
One of the joys of writing for this site, is that I get to research and discover new properties, companies and
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Great Deposits – Grasberg Part 3 – Mining and Engineering
In our first two articles we discussed the history and geology of the Grasberg Mine and it is now time to come back
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