Mining and Exploration

Dust control and road stabilization are major issues in the United States. Twenty years after its invention, PennzSuppress D is finally being made available to a wider marketplace. Bruce Coulthard, president of PZS Stabilization, talks about this revolutionary product.

When it acquired the Cerro Negro property from Andean Resources in 2010 Goldcorp hailed this as its next cornerstone gold mine: now with little more than a year to go before it pours its first doré bars the project is recognized as world class.

Osisko Mining Corporation has reported record monthly gold production of 37,780 ounces in the month of July.

A record monthly mill throughput of 1.3 million tonnes was also achieved, along with record average daily throughput (based on 31 days of operation) of 41,935 tonnes per day.

“We are now beginning to see significant improvement in daily throughput and gold production from the Canadian Malartic mill,” said Sean Roosen, president and chief executive officer.

Italy’s Eni has announced a giant new natural gas discovery offshore Mozambique.

The discovery was made in the eastern part of Area 4 at the Mamba North East 2 exploration prospect, the fifth exploration well successfully drilled in the area.

Mamba North East 2, where Eni will now conduct a production test, was drilled in 1,994 metres of water, reaching a total depth of 5,365 metres. The well is located approximately nine kilometres east of Mamba North East 1 and approximately 23 kilometres from Mamba South 1, 60 kilometres off the Capo Delgado coast.

Ann Marie Hann, president of the Coal Association of Canada, talks about changes in the regulatory environment which could see more coal mines looking to export.

Anglo American is to acquire an additional 40 per cent interest in De Beers for a total cash consideration of US$5.1 billion.

The move comes after Botswana’s government declined to take up its pre-emptive rights to acquire an additional shareholding in De Beers.

Anglo’s additional interest now takes its total stake to 85 per cent.

Rig operator Prosafe has been awarded a contract by an undisclosed client for the provision of the Safe Scandinavia accommodation support rig at a project in the UK sector of the North Sea.

The firm period of the contract is 187 days, with on-site operations planned to commence in April 2013.

The total value of the contract for the firm period is approximately $58.1 million.

Newmont Mining Corporation, one of the world’s largest producers of gold, has announced its results for the second quarter of 2012.

Attributable net income from continuing operations of $279 million, or $0.56 per share, was down 47 percent from $523 million, or $1.06 per share in the second quarter of 2011. Adjusted net income was $294 million, or $0.59 per share, compared with $445 million, or $0.90 per share, for the prior year quarter.

Tullow Oil has encountered oil and gas while drilling at its Wawa-1 well offshore Ghana.

The find was made at the exploration well in the Deepwater Tano licence where oil and gas condensate was intersected in a Turonian turbidite channel system.

The well was drilled 10 kilometres north of the Enyenra-3A well, testing a previously undrilled portion of the licence, Tullow said. The Atwood Hunter semi-submersible rig drilled the Wawa-1 well to a final depth of 3,322 metres in water depths of 587 metres.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Krancer (pictured in the foreground) today opened a valve allowing treated acid mine water from the Antrim treatment plant in Tioga County to power a turbine and begin generating electricity to run the facility.