“The next Liaison Group Forum meeting will be on Thursday 1 October 2020, 1.00–2.00 pm. It will be conducted via web conference. To register your interest please email cropnutrients.info@angloamerican.com.“
https://uk.angloamerican.com/our-community/liaison-group-forum
“the last meeting had taken place in September 2019. Since then Anglo American had completed the takeover of Sirius Minerals. GE acknowledged that some local shareholders were disappointed and stressed that this was not the outcome that anyone at Sirius had set out to achieve. GE explained that there had not been a viable alternative and that the takeover had secured the future of the Project, ensuring that the benefits to the area would be realised.”
https://uk.angloamerican.com/the-woodsmith-project
“Anglo American has abandoned plans to construct the intermediate shaft for its North Yorkshire polyhalite mine using drill and blast techniques and announced plans to use “blind boring” techniques instead.
In a letter to residents near the shaft at Lockwood Beck seen by NCE, the mining giant said that work on the shaft using the new technique would start immediately and will finish next year.
The Lockwood Beck shaft is 32km from the main mine site at Woodsmith and was originally planned to be the location of an underground cavern for launching and receiving of tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Anglo has confirmed to NCE that the TBM currently driving the material transport system tunnel from Teesside will also be used for the second part of the drive towards Woodsmith.
The firm said that the increased advance rate of the TBM meant that the Lockwood shaft would just be used for ventilation allowing it to use the simpler shaft sinking method.”
Meanwhile:
“Anglo American has confirmed its Crop Nutrients business has ended the contract of its shaft sinking contractor, DMC Mining Services UK Ltd, at the Woodsmith polyhalite project in the UK.
Anglo, which only took ownership of the asset earlier this year, said DMC staff were expected to transfer to Anglo American under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, and construction progress was due to continue.”
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