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By Rachel Dally-Watkins 2 April, 2015 WHILE the gold mining industry experienced a tumultuous past year, Doray Minerals managing director Allan Kelly said that, for his company, not a lot had changed thanks to a three pronged approach to weathering the uncertain market. Speaking at a WA Mining Club lunch in late March, Mr Kelly said his company’s focus on sustainable gold production, company management and exploration success had secured a “solid financial performance” for the first half of financial year 2014-2015. Capital expenditure to set  the company up for the second half of 2015 and lower underground grades at Andy Well meant that the company...

Construction of vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility begins Construction of Australian Vanadium’s (ASX:AVL) vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility in WA has begun. Australian Vanadium has appointed engineering group Primero Group, a subsidiary of NRW Holdings (ASX:NWH), to construct the facility with most long lead items now received. Further, experienced operations professional Simon Rough has been appointed to safely manage the facility through construction and into production. His extensive experience in vanadium processing and sulphuric acid production makes him a perfect fit to lead the team to successful production of high-quality electrolyte. The facility is designed to produce up to 33MWh per year of vanadium flow battery (VFB) high purity electrolyte. Australian Vanadium holds the...

AI helping researchers hear the call of the Black-throated Finch Bravus Mining and Resources has partnered with Queensland scientists to use cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to improve remote monitoring of the Black-throated Finch at the Carmichael mine near Clermont in central Queensland. Researchers from E2M created an automated recogniser to capture the birds’ calls, which will support best practice monitoring of the species and open the door for better surveillance of other rare birds. In a new scientific article published in the international journal Ecological Informatics, the researchers detailed the use of machine learning to make major advances in the technology used to analyse bioacoustics data. Bravus chief operating officer...

  By Reuben Adams Friday, 19 June 2015 ROX Resources’ has successfully completed a $3.2 million over-subscribed share purchase Plan (SPP) as it works toward development of the Fisher East nickel project. The company will also complete an additional top-up placement of $700,000 on the same terms as the SPP. Rox managing director Ian Mulholland said it was pleasing to receive such strong support from the company’s shareholders in such tough market conditions. “We look forward to further rewarding this support by continuing active exploration on our high quality projects, and working towards development of the Fisher East nickel...