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2.3 million tons of coal have been produced in Thermal power plant and Mines (TE-KO) “Kostolac” since the beginning of year. In Thermal power plant in Kostolac also were produced 1.8 million megawatt hours of electricity for the first four months of this year. According to the information, 13.9 million cubic meters of overburden were […]

When and if it comes to exploitation of copper and gold deposits in the vicinity of Bor, the state will obtain five percent of the value of the gold or copper derived from extracted ores. It is about 65 million tons of ore. Mining academic community supports the announcements of Freeport Mcmoran copper mine capital […]

The production plan has been exceeded at the open pit “Veliki Krivelj”, so that the plans for the April results have become more ambitious. In March, at this open pit, 914 tons of ore were excavated, which is seven percent more than planned, considering that the middle copper content in the ore was higher than […]

“In the near future, potentially MSB “Bor” could be the best and the most profitable company in Serbia, bearing in mind its reserves of copper and gold,” says Milan Popovic who announced the entrance of Russian copper company as new Bor mining co owner. Businessman Milan Popovic said that he was interested to buy a […]

The US company Freeport Mcmoran is ready to open a new copper and gold mine in Bor investing up to 5 billion dollars. If future results of geological researches in the vicinity of Bor confirm previous findings, the US company Freeport Mcmoran is ready to open a new copper and gold mine in this area, […]

About 65 percent of annual coal production in Serbia Power Utility Company (EPS) is based on lignite combustion, of which 75 percent comes from “Kolubara”, and the rest from Kostolac coal basin. According to the State Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Mines, Tomislav Subaranovic, 90 percent from the total annual coal production […]

Within the realization of the first “green project” in the Mining basin “Kolubara” has begun the training of “Kolubara” and EPS management on the part of the Project “C” which refers to the expansion of the landfill and coal homogenization, and control system of coal quality.  Consultants from open pit mines “Mibrag” and RWE perform […]

In Mining basin “Kolubara”, the overhauls of production systems are in progress in the open pit mines. Regular annual overhauls are main precondition for continuity maintenance of coal and overburden production in Kolubara. In the Open pit mine “Field D”, the regular annual investment repair of the First A ECS system is being completed. The […]

Justin van der Toorn,a research manager with the company that is the major investor in geological and mining research in Serbia so far, has held the presentation at the Fourth International conference on mineral resources. Avala Resources is a Canadian company which, up to now invested 160 million dollars in researches conducted in Serbia and […]

The project of building a new smelter and sulfuric acid plant in copper mining company Bor has entered the final stage. As expected, mechanical assembly of the plant will be completed until December, followed by cold and hot testing, then this operation will be introduced into the production process. “The project is in the final, […]