The AMEC Awards Dinner was held on September 4 at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, and for the first year incorporated the Australian Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame inductees. The awards dinner proved a great way to finish off the AMEC Convention, extending the buzz that surrounded the event.
Silvercorp Metals has managed to avoid the disastrous fate of many of its mining brethren, with the Vancouver-based silver producer reporting in its June quarter results improved costs and increased production that did much to offset the plummeting price of its chief commodities, with the company also suspending operations at three of its mine sites in light of the price declines.
SRK Consulting China Ltd has completed an NI43-101 Technical Report in support of the Preliminary Economic Assessment for Majestic Gold’s Song Jiagou Gold Project in Shandong Province.
A pre-feasibility study (PFS) on Project F at Tigers Realm Coal’s Amaam North project in Russia’s far east has demonstrated outstanding project economics from a core starter open pit coking coal mine with a shortened timeframe to first production.