A couple of weeks ago, the Philippines lifted a four-year ban on open-pit mining. In doing so, it also re-opened the debate on the mining method’s perceived environmental impact and its promising ...

While both underground and open-cast mining are common around the world, some open-cast mines transition to underground operations, hence the upper part of the ore body is exploited by open-cast ...

Over the past 10 years at Ukwazi we have seen and adapted to significant changes in mine planning software and mine planning service providers. Mine design and scheduling software applications has ...

The Bingham Canyon Mine won't get any deeper, but it might get wider than the current 2.5-mile span of the giant hole Rio ...

Administrative Order No. 2017-10 prohibiting the open-pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country remains effective at the turn of the year. This is largely due to ...

A feasibility study from Generation Mining (TSX: GENM) on its 80%-held Marathon palladium-copper project in northwestern Ontario suggests a 25,200 t/d open pit operation producing a copper-PGM ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, present ed before parliament a series of constitutional reforms among which there is a proposal to modify Article 27 so that it prohibits ...

Catholic bishops in the Philippines have long fought against open-pit mining — a surface method of extracting rock or minerals from an open-air pit otherwise known as a “borrow” mine or a “quarry.” ...

On February 28, the Government of Honduras announced an end to open-pit mining of any sort. It would later clarify that this did not pertain to pre-existing mining operations. “The approval of permits ...

It’s Monday, March 7, and Honduras is saying no to open-pit mining. Honduras’ new president followed through on a major campaign promise last week, announcing a ban on open-pit mining across the ...