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Ilan Solomons

Ilan Solomons

Ilan Solomons is a Creamer Media Contributing Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

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By Ilan Solomons

INTERGRATING SYSTEMS Creating operations that are interconnected digitally and built on processes enabled by data to deliver responsive and agile operations is of ‘critical importance’

Mining companies urged to make better use of digital technology

14th July 2017

Struggling with commodity prices, declining ore grade and operational challenges, South African miners have no choice but to focus on creating operational excellence to buffer against declining... 


LELAU MOHUBA
Sephaku Holdings’mixed concrete subsidiary Métier recorded a 7.3% increase in net profit to R67.4- million, despite revenue having declined by 3.9%

Sephaku lifts volumes in highly competitive cement market

14th July 2017

JSE-listed minerals exploration, development and investment company Sephaku Holdings’ (SepHold’s) net profit increased by 12.8% year-on-year to to R68.1-million for the year ended March 31, despite... 


AFRICAN FIRST The International Bauxite-Alumina Symposium will be hosted in Guinea, making it the first African country to do so

Guinea to host alumina-bauxite symposium in September

14th July 2017

The International Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Society (IBAAS), in association with geological services provider Camen Resources, will host the sixth edition of the International Bauxite-Alumina... 


DIAMOND FOCUS One of the Council for Geoscience project aims is to investigate the mining potential of diamondiferous gravel deposits in the North West and Northern Cape provinces

Initiatives launched to probe unexploited potential of diamond-bearing gravel deposits, other minerals

14th July 2017

The South African mining sector is currently facing a decline and in an attempt to stimulate and support renewed mining activities, the Council for Geoscience (CGS) has launched a number of... 


Marian  van der Walt

Marian van der Walt

14th July 2017

This week we feature Marian van der Walt, the corporate and investor relations executive at Harmony Gold, South Arrica's third-biggest gold producing company, which employs 30 000 people and has a... 


Geita gold mine, in Tanzania

AngloGold initiates arbitration proceedings over new Tanzania legislation

13th July 2017

Concerned about newly enacted legislation in Tanzania, gold mining major AngloGold Ashanti is seeking a “constructive dialogue” with the Tanzania government to gain assurance that its operations... 


Poseidon’s Black Swan processing facility (BSPF), in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields

Poseidon, Aphrodite enter MOU to assess gold processing at Black Swan

10th July 2017

ASX-listed companies Poseidon Nickel and Aphrodite Gold announced on Monday that they had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to evaluate the processing of Aphrodite’s gold mineral... 


Kidman to focus on Earl Grey development as tussle with Marindi is resolved

10th July 2017

ASX-listed gold and lithium miner Kidman Resources has successfully defended the ownership of lithium rights to its Mt Holland project, including the Earl Grey deposit, located near Southern Cross... 


Altura concludes offtake agreements with Chinese battery firms

Altura concludes offtake agreements with Chinese battery firms

10th July 2017

ASX-listed lithium developer Altura Mining has executed a binding offtake agreement (BOA) with Chinese battery producer Shaanxi J&R Optimum Energy and has revised the terms of the existing BOA with... 


Toro Energy’s Wiluna uranium project in Western Australia

Toro receives federal approval for Wiluna uranium project

10th July 2017

Federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has granted environmental approval for Toro Energy’s Wiluna extension uranium project, in Western Australia.   The project was assessed under... 


Universal Coal’s Kangala colliery in Delmas, Mpumalanga

Universal expects output to hit 3Mt in 2017, significantly improves cash flow

10th July 2017

ASX-listed coal miner Universal Coal advised on Monday that its Kangala and New Clydesdale Colliery (NCC) mines, in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, delivered an estimated three-million tons of... 


Neometals MD Chris Reed

Neometals to advance integrated strategy as it holds on to Mt Marion equity

10th July 2017

ASX-listed Neometals will advance an integrated strategy for its lithium assets, including developing a downstream processing plant to produce lithium hydroxide, after the notice period for selling... 


Explorer seeking partners to support its efforts to tap Mauritania’s mineral wealth

Explorer seeking partners to support its efforts to tap Mauritania’s mineral wealth

7th July 2017

Mauritania has many mining investment opportunities, with economic, social and political conditions conducive to the pursuit of developing a sector considered strategic by the country’s government,... 


COAL COMBINATION

COAL COMBINATION

7th July 2017

TSX-and-JSE-listed bituminous and anthracite coal miner Buffalo Coal produces high-quality thermal and metallurgical coal from its operations, which are based near the town of Dundee, in... 


CONTEMPORARY GEOLOGICAL WORK Modern geological maps are produced by teams of multiskilled geologists and research specialists through a multidisciplinary process

New technologies enabling advances in geological mapping

7th July 2017

Geological mapping has represented the core function of the Council for Geoscience (CGS) for more than 100 years. Geological maps provide the base information for a range of applications, including... 


STAGE STORMED
Practical Radical Economic Transformation members take over the platfrom where Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane was meant to discuss the new Mining Charter

Mining Charter imbizo aborted as section of audience heckles Minister

7th July 2017

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane was, last month, forced to leave a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, without addressing the meeting. The... 


DAVID MABUZA 
The Premier urges communities to continue to be active in engaging government leadership, but stresses that this should be done in a respectful and peaceful fashion

Premier's imbizo no-show explained

7th July 2017

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza was unable to attend a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, regarding the third iteration of the Mining Charter, last... 


DETAILED ANALYSIS Payload monitoring for hydraulic shovels uses a series of orientation and pressure sensors to provide bucket-by-bucket payload measurements to ensure efficiencies

Motion Metrics sells six payload monitoring systems to local mine

7th July 2017

Monitoring solutions provider Motion Metrics has sold six of its ShovelMetrics payload monitoring solution systems for hydraulic shovels to a South African precious metals mine looking to improve... 


QUALITY QUARTZ DEPOSITS Suricate will soon undertake a feasibility study for the commissioning of a mine to extract high-purity quartz from Inal, which contain up to 99.99% in silicon

Explorer seeking partners to support its efforts to tap Mauritania’s mineral wealth

7th July 2017

Mauritania has many mining investment opportunities, with economic, social and political conditions conducive to the pursuit of developing a sector considered strategic by the Mauritanian... 


WEB OF CRIMINALITY
In addition to the professional syndicates that supported illegal miners, mine employees were often found to be collaborating with illegal miners

Zama-zamas depriving South Africa of R20bn in revenue each year – Sibanye

7th July 2017

Illegal mining is by no means a victimless crime, as it costs South Africa an estimated R20-billion a year in lost mineral sales, taxes and royalties, diversified miner Sibanye protection services... 


BRIGHTS RAYS OF HOPE Many mining companies will see the conditions as ripe for value accretive moves, with market differentiation their immediate goal

M&A activity ‘largely static’ as Chinese investors steal march on sector

30th June 2017

One of the biggest mergers and acquisition (M&A) stories of 2016 concerned the assets that did not sell. A number of large deals, expected to be completed by early 2017, were withdrawn from the... 


GLISTENING PROSPECTS The 7B concession is estimated to contain 65-million tons of diamondiferous gravel

Company seeks strategic partners as it aims to mine diamonds off the West Coast

30th June 2017

Local diamond exploration company Mza Diamonds Resources is calling for expressions of interest from marine mining companies to join the company to deploy remote marine mining equipment to extract... 


CAUSE FOR CONCERN Hazardous metals such as aluminium, iron and manganese may currently be entering the country’s streams and rivers, threatening its limited water resources

Passive treatment may hold key to tackling AMD challenge – geoscientist

30th June 2017

Abandoned coal mines have contributed to the generation of acid mine drainage (AMD) in South Africa, states Council for Geoscience (CGS) environmental geoscientist Gloria Dube. She elaborates that... 


Sibanye protection services senior VP Nash Lutchman

Illegal mining a substantial burden on South African economy, warns Sibanye

28th June 2017

Illegal mining is by no means a victimless crime, as it costs South Africa an estimated R20-billion a year in lost mineral sales, taxes and royalties, Sibanye protection services senior VP Nash... 


David Mabuza was not able to attend the community engagement imbizo because he was out of the country on an official trade and investment trip to Russia

Mpumalanga Premier unable to attend Mining Charter imbizo owing to Russia trip

26th June 2017

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza was unable to attend a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, regarding the third iteration of the Mining Charter, last... 


Practical Radical Economic Transformation members storm stage where Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane was meant to discuss the new Mining Charter

Zwane forced to beat a hasty retreat from community engagement imbizo

23rd June 2017

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane was, on Friday, forced to leave a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, without addressing the meeting. The... 


Much progress in mineworker housing delivery but more needs to be done

Much progress in mineworker housing delivery but more needs to be done

23rd June 2017

Many migrant employees do not want to permanently settle in mining towns, but prefer to maintain their homes in the rural areas and return to them, says the Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa,... 


SUPPORTING FAMILY DYNAMICS The mining industry is exploring alternative shift arrangements and different shift cycles to enable employees to return home to their families more frequently and for longer periods

Much progress in mineworker housing delivery but more needs to be done

23rd June 2017

Many migrant employees do not want to permanently move to mining towns, but prefer to maintain and return to their homes in rural areas, says the Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa, citing its... 


LAUNCH EVENT Going forward Young Mining Professionals UK will host a variety of events designed to develop the skills and knowledge of its members

UK young mining professionals form association as they eye domestic, offshore opportunities

23rd June 2017

The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) association, in the UK held its launch event in London last month, where “like-minded” individuals from within the UK met to discuss the opportunities that... 


JAMES CAMPBELL Botswana Diamonds is currently in discussions with BCL’s liquidator KPMG to resolve the corporate governance issues associated with the Maibwe joint venture

BCL liquidation poser for Botswana diamond exploration JV

23rd June 2017

Diamond explorer and project developer Botswana Diamonds is weighing its options in resolving the corporate governance issues relating to its Maibwe joint venture (JV) exploration project, in the... 


BUILDING BOUYANCY Despite being a ‘taker’, resilient mining companies are able to absorb certain factors as a result of their planning and execution processes

Lonmin risk manager spells out four scenarios local mines may be exposed to in 2017

23rd June 2017

In the Institute of Risk Management South Africa’s (IRMSA’s) recently launched 2017 risks report, four scenarios laying out how the country’s National Development Plan (NDP) might potentially be... 


IMPROVED BALANCE SHEETS
The top 40 miners recorded a net profit of $20-billion in 2016, which was a significant improvement from the aggregate loss of $28-billion recorded in 2015

Top 40 miners returned to profitability in 2016 – PwC

23rd June 2017

The world’s top 40 miners recovered from a “race to the bottom”, with bolstered balance sheets and a return to profitability in 2016, giving them much-needed space to pause and take a breath. This... 


PROVIDING A HELPING HAND
De Beers supply development lead Lesiba Lamola with some of the incubatees of the Incubation Support Programme

De Beers establishes incubation hub for Kroonstad’s entrepreneurs

23rd June 2017

Diamond miner De Beers’ Voorspoed mine has officially unveiled its Incubation Support Programme for small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) at the miner’s Zimele business hub in Kroonstad,... 


HIGHLY PROSPECTIVE
Mundoro projects are located in an area with historical discoveries of 67-million ounces of gold and 8.7-million ounces of copper, lead and zinc combined

Mundoro Capital focusing on copper, gold exploration in south-eastern Europe

16th June 2017

Mineral exploration and investment company Mundoro Capital is focused on providing value to its shareholders through the exploration work on its copper and gold projects, in Serbia and Bulgaria.... 


Technological innovations will be key to success of seabed mining

16th June 2017

Minerals from the deep sea, such as polymetallic nodules, ferromanganese crusts and hydrothermal sulfides are potential sources of metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt, manganese and iron. In... 


CORE CONCERN The question of power pricing is ‘vital to the economic future of Zambia’

Zambia’s mines chamber calls for transparent electricity pricing

16th June 2017

The Zambia Chamber of Mines (ZCM) says that the country’s power pricing must of necessity be determined in a transparent, objective and efficient manner. The chamber notes that as an industry body,... 


YOUTH EMPOWERMENT The pooling of resources will provide a more focused and centralised platform for youth development in the local mining industry

Consolidation of efforts key to increasing youth participation in mining

16th June 2017

South Africa’s mining sector needs to consolidate its current youth development initiatives to ensure meaningful upliftment of the country’s youth, says Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa... 


ASBESTOS MINE DUMP, MPUMALANGA Despite the cessation of asbestos mining, there is still a concern about possible environmental pollution by asbestos fibres

Unrehabilitated Mpumalanga asbestos mine tailings a possible health hazard – scientist

16th June 2017

Asbestos mining was banned in South Africa because of the health effects linked to the inhalation of asbestos dust-fibres. However, asbestos mine tailings in Mpumalanga have not been rehabilitated... 


ZWELI MKHIZE AND OLEBOGENG SENTSHO
Olebogeng Sentsho receiving ‘Outstanding Woman in Mining Award’ from Zweli Mkhize at the Youth in Mining Business Awards in 2016

Incubation fund launched to support mining startups

16th June 2017

In response to the funding challenges young business people in the South African mining industry are faced with, a fellow young professional in the mining industry has recently established the... 


Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane is being heavily criticised for not ensuring that there was sufficient discussion about the content of the new charter

CoM to boycott new Mining Charter announcement, holds own briefing at 13:30

15th June 2017

Ahead of the scheduled publication of the reviewed Mining Charter 3 by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) later on Thursday, the Chamber of Mines (CoM) has raised its concerns about the... 


Consolidation of efforts key to increasing youth participation in mining

Consolidation of efforts key to increasing youth participation in mining

15th June 2017

South Africa’s mining sector needs to consolidate its current youth development initiatives to ensure meaningful upliftment of the country’s youth, says Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa... 


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