SigraFi has secured a $35 million credit facility from a consortium led by UAE-based Ronin Commercial Brokers to finance gold offtake from organised artisanal and small-scale gold mining cooperatives in the DRC, Zambia and South America. The company already works with PeaceGold in eastern DRC, covering 11 cooperatives and about 25,000 miners in Ituri Province, using multi-year contracts and guaranteed offtake at competitive prices. The model targets ASGM’s roughly 20% share of global newly mined gold by providing traceable, compliant supply to institutional refiners previously reliant on informal channels.

Completion of the Tahmoor Colliery sale in New South Wales to the GEAR/M Resources Consortium moves the underground coking coal mine closer to full restart, with about 150 workers already back on site undertaking initial mining activities. The new operator plans a staged ramp-up, progressively recalling additional personnel and recommissioning equipment to restore longwall production. Geotechnical and operational teams will be focused on revalidating ground control, ventilation and gas management systems after the shutdown period before returning to full output.

Excavator bucket maintenance is shifting from ad hoc onsite crack and wear repairs to planned, lifecycle-based strategies led by Austin Engineering. General manager sales APAC/EMEA Brad Higgins and key account manager Troy [surname not given] use real-world case studies to compare reactive weld-and-patch approaches with scheduled structural rebuilds and liner replacements. The move towards planned cycles aims to stabilise downtime windows, standardise repair scopes and improve fatigue performance of large mining buckets, with direct implications for shutdown planning and wear-material selection.