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Condor Gold to be ‘shovel ready’ by year end

Condor Gold hopes to start using bulldozers by the end of this year to clear the site at La India gold mine in Nicaragua. In an interview with Proactive Investors, Condor’s chief executive Mark Child added that the company had been granted permits for two feeder pits and that he hoped the site would be […]

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Scotgold starts slab pours and expands tunnels

Scotgold Resources Ltd has started slab pours ready to place equipment following resumption of blasting at the high grade Cononish gold and silver mine in Argyll, Scotland. WASTE ORE Operations had stopped due to the pandemic, but the Australian company is now focused on expanding tunnels to mine through rock which has no gold in […]

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Banks refused plans to extend Bradley coal mine

Banks Group’s application to extend Bradley West Mine in County Durham has been refused by the local council because of its impact on the environment. The company wanted to extend the open cast mine to extract an extra 90,000 tonnes of coal. Banks, which promised to restore the land by August 2021, said the extension […]

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Dalradian faces public inquiry over £750m mine plans

Dalradian Gold will undergo a public inquiry over its proposals to open a £750 million gold-silver-copper mine in Curraghinalt, County Tyrone. SCRUTINY Backed by investor Orion Resource Partners, the American company aims to extract 3.5m oz of gold deposit, 15,000 tonnes of copper and 850,000 oz of silver deposit from the site. Dalradian applied for […]

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WCM aims to be major European supplier

Feature: The UK has this year passed two consecutive months, April and May, without using electricity from coal-fuelled plants and instead choosing renewable energy. LICENCES However, coal is still needed to manufacture the steel parts for wind turbines and solar panels. One company, hoping to start the UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years, […]