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Closed mines can be used for the implementation of plants of energy generation with low environmental impact. This paper explores the use of abandoned mines for Underground Pumped Hydroelectric Energy Storage (UPHES), Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) plants and geothermal applications. A case study is presented in which the three uses are ...
The economics, the politics, and even the weather seemed to line up, as Crocker cut the fat purple ribbon to unveil the mine. Closed before it opens. But then, something rather shocking happened ...
The Argyle Diamond Mine closure was successfully completed on 15 April 2024, within the allocated budget and timeframe. The project's achievements were recognised with …
LOW platinum group metal (PGM) prices have claimed another scalp with Pilanesberg Platinum Mines (PPM) telling employees the operation would close from Friday (December 1) until further notice. Erich Clarke, CEO of PPM said in a letter that "all extraction and processing operations will be suspended". Employees were to remain off-site from December …
Argyle underground mine manager Brendan Murphy supervises the last tonne of ore after 37 years of operations. (Supplied: Rio Tinto Diamonds)The end of an era. Mr Wilson said the final day of ...
America's only cobalt mine opened last year to great fanfare, since the mineral is crucial for green energy. But it surprisingly closed months later.
State school aid is based on enrollment; at least 50 of Leadville's 1,100 students are from Black Cloud families and likely to move soon. When the mine closed in January, the struggling district ...
Santo Domingo, DR The Dominican government is preparing to formalize the rescue of the outstanding Larimar stone after several months of its production being stopped in the Dominican Republic. The director of Mining, …
South Africa's economy was built on the mining industry. But the sector has been in decline for decades. Mining contributed R312 billion, or 6.8%, to South Africa's GDP and 464 667 direct jobs ...
Nickel continued its slump, heading toward the lowest level in more than three years, even as the collapse in prices for the metal force mines to shutter. The metal used in stainless steel and ...
The Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia, which was discovered in October 1979 and mined since 1983, closed Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of Rio Tinto) Sydney—The Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia, the world's major source for pink and purple stones, marked its last day of mining Tuesday.
The Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS), a joint venture (JV) between Société Minière du Sud Pacifique SA and Glencore in New Caledonia, will transition into care and maintenance, it was announced on Monday.
Geosyntec recognizes that the conversion of closed or abandoned mine sites into productive economic assets or safe, open space is one of the most challenging aspects of life-cycle mine management. This is accomplished through the execution of a mine site reclamation and closure planning process with a focused end-state vision that brings ...
During operations, Minto Mine had about 180 mine staff and subcontractors working on site according to a government spokesperson. Over the weekend, there were about 50 workers there from the ...
Sibanye Stillwater, the South African company that operates the nation's only major palladium mine in south-central Montana, said Thursday that it plans to lay off about …
Eddie worked at Geevor from 1979 until 1990, but like many others, was first made redundant when the mine closed in 1986. When the mine reopened, Eddie went for an interview for a job as a tour ...
Guy Boggs, co-Editor-in-Chief of Research Directions: Mine Closure and Transitions, is hoping to make headway on a pressing global issue that has seen little progress to date.. Across the world, every mine that opens will have to close at some point – because every resource is finite.
About 21 million carats a year of global diamond production — including about 14 million a year from Argyle — are scheduled to exit the market by 2023, a volume that'll only …
The economics, the politics, and even the weather seemed to line up, as Crocker cut the fat purple ribbon to unveil the mine. Closed before it opens. But then, something rather shocking happened ...
The mine, which De Beers said closed due to lack of timely support from Attawappiskat First Nation to expand operations, will be fully closed by fall of 2023. The mine …
The mines have been either closed or abandoned and may be surface or underground mining operations. The repository's data dates from the 1790s to the present day. The maps are archived digitally and on microfilm (aperture cards). The database allows visitors to search through over 40 fields of information collected from the maps.
I think they closed them for the same reason that subsequent governments did. The mines productivity was very poor and it was far cheaper to import coal from more efficient producers. The secondary benefit was that imported coal was a reliable supply that didn't try to hold the country to ransom and cut off supply.
Rio Tinto has toured reporters through its Diavik site as it promises a "successful closure" at the diamond mine, which is set to end production in 2026.
In several countries around the world, abandoned mining sites are blighted by pollution from metal and metalloids. Generated by mining processes, toxic pollutants have lasting effects on the ecosystem. The study examined the environmental impact of waste from a copper mine that was operated by the Caucasus Copper Limited Company between 1905 and 1928, …
The economics, the politics, and even the weather seemed to line up, as Crocker cut the fat purple ribbon to unveil the mine. Closed before it opens. But then, something rather shocking happened. The price of cobalt–around $40 a pound in early 2022–started to drop. The price fell from $40 a pound to $35.
The groundwater recovery in closed mines causes surface secondary subsidence or uplift, which threatens the safety of buildings around the mines. However, due to the long-lasting surface subsidence in closed mines, the coherence points selected by permanent scatterer (PS) interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) are not enough to reflect the spatio …
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Newmont Corporation (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT, ASX: NEM, PNGX: NEM) ("Newmont" or the "Company") announced today that it has agreed …
The third flooding happened about nine years later, in 2007 when Weatherly International took over from TCL. As if the flooding was not enough of a problem, copper prices fell. Ongopolo Mining had no choice but to close the mine. It took 14 years to get the mine back into operation; this time, it was the Canadian company Trigon Metals.
Argyle's closure did not set a precedent within the mining industry. Mines have closed previously after years of productivity. For instance, the historic Kimberley Mine sprang from the discovery of a single diamond in Kimberley, South Africa in 1867. That one diamond drew ambitious Europeans to South Africa lured by the prospect of finding ...
The Soudan Underground Mine, now part of the Lake Vermilion/Soudan Underground Mine State Park, began operations in 1882 and produced massive amounts of high-grade iron ore until it closed in 1962. …
