Gold producer Pantoro announced it has completed a processing plant options review and scoping estimate at the Norseman processing facility in Western Australia.
Gulf Minerals Corporation has appointed Perth-based Como Engineers as manager for the construction of its $52 million Kupang smelter project in West Timor.
Western Australia's newest gold producer, Hanking Gold Mining, expects to lift production to 100,000 ounces in 2015 after approving development of a new underground mine in partnership with local company Pit N Portal Group.
Red Mountain Mining expects to complete by the end of the year a definitive feasibility study at its Batangas gold project in the Philippines after appointing Como Engineers to undertake the initiative.