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Call for better understanding of trackless mobile mining equipment regulations
By: Ilan Solomons 10th November 2017 Mechanisation of the South African mining sector is a major priority for all stakeholders. However, with the introduction of mechanised mining technologies come several new challenges, one of which relates to the brakes and in-service brake testing of trackless mobile mining (TMM) equipment, says... →
Colliery supply success guides safety solutions provider’s African expansion
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 10th November 2017 Leveraging its success after 15 years of working with the Botswana-based Morupule colliery, South African mining safety and monitoring solutions provider Monitech is considering further expansion into Africa. Benoni-based Monitech supplied both eight-channel controller systems and Laser Guard... →
FACILITATING SAFETY The eight-channel controller and the Laser Guard system have aided in meeting underground coal mining safety regulations in Botswana
AEL Mining Services launches rock-breaking technology chair at University of Pretoria
By: Mia Breytenbach 10th November 2017 Johannesburg-headquartered developer, producer and supplier of commercial explosives AEL Mining Services has, in partnership with the University of Pretoria (UP), launched the AEL Mining Services Chair in Innovative Rock Breaking Technology, which will reside within the Department of Mining... →
Chamber condemns mines’ deteriorating safety performance
By: Natasha Odendaal 6th November 2017 The Chamber of Mines (CoM) on Monday expressed concern over the rising number of fatalities in South Africa’s mines after recent accidents brought the number of fatalities to date this year to 76, overtaking the 73 deaths reported for the same period in 2016. Over the last few weeks, several... →
AngloGold achieves strong Q3 performance, on track to meet FY guidance
By: Mia Breytenbach 6th November 2017 Johannesburg- and New York-listed AngloGold Ashanti generated free cash flow of $88-million in the third quarter of this year, following strong production and cost containment across its portfolio, and remains on track to meet its full-year guidance. The free cash flow for the quarter, compared... →
AngloGold CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan
Resilient Lonmin beats guidance, ups cash
By: Martin Creamer 3rd November 2017 The board of platinum mining company Lonmin has decided to extend the date of the publication of its 2017 financial results to afford management the opportunity to give undivided attention to the group’s operational review, which is targeting a viable business plan based on the possible raising... →
AngloGold confirms two dead, six rescued after Mponeng fall-of-ground incident
By: Natasha Odendaal 3rd November 2017 Two miners have been confirmed dead, with six others rescued at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine, near Carletonville, following a seismic activity-triggered fall-of-ground incident on Thursday morning. AngloGold Ashanti on Friday confirmed that the rescue team brought two more workers safely to... →
Low capital cost key to continuous improvement
By: Simone Liedtke 3rd November 2017 Delivering well-executed projects at a low capital cost is key to continuous improvement within the local and global mining industry, and Sandton-based process and engineering service provider Metix attributes its ongoing success to its ability to do so for large projects on an engineering,... →
Technology to shift project relations from adversarial to cooperative 
By: Simone Liedtke 3rd November 2017 Fluctuating global commodity demand and prices, as well as escalating geopolitical risks are causing concern among asset owners and investors, and is resulting in capital projects either being postponed or cancelled in the South African mining industry, states specialist business and project... →
Continued unrest at Elikhulu threatens to ‘adversely impact’ on project, warns Pan African
By: Ilan Solomons 3rd November 2017 South African precious metals miner Pan African Resources has strongly condemned the protest action by some community members at the company’s Elikhulu tailings retreatment plant project, within the Evander gold mine complex, in Mpumalanga, warning that the unrest threatens to disrupt... →
ELIKHULU TAILINGS RETREATMENT PROJECT To date, the project has created business opportunities for about 40 local and community businesses, with this number set to rise in the near future
Elandsfontein mine to assist in alleviating West Coast water challenges
By: Ilan Solomons 3rd November 2017 Emerging miner Kropz’s Elandsfontein phosphate mine, near Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape plans to supply the drought stricken West Coast region with additional clean water, while offsetting its own water-use over the course of the next three years. The project is located on land adjacent to... →
SEEKING TO BE MISERLY Kropz has revised down its water-use requirements to 1.6 megalitres a day and it is the company’s intention to further revise this down to 1 meglitres a day
One dead, three missing after Mponeng fall-of-ground incident
By: Natasha Odendaal 2nd November 2017 A search and rescue operation is under way at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine, near Carletonville, following a seismic activity-triggered fall-of-ground incident on Thursday morning. Four workers have been rescued; however, AngloGold confirmed to Mining Weekly Online that there was one confirmed... →
Kibali Africa’s most mechanised gold mine – Randgold
By: Martin Creamer 2nd November 2017 If you want to make money in mining, you must be efficient and a company taking efficiency to new heights in Africa is Randgold Resources. While there is a perception in some developed world minds that in Africa mineworkers arrive at the gate, pick up a spade and go out there and shovel stuff,... →
Rustenburg picks up, Marula turns, fatalities sadden – Implats
By: Martin Creamer 31st October 2017 Improved efficiencies and production levels at the Impala Rustenburg mine coincided with a turnaround at the Marula mine in the three months to September 30, Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) said on Tuesday, when it expressed disappointment at five fatalities at Impala Rustenburg and one at... →
Implats CEO Nico Muller
Africa must innovate or risk being left behind
27th October 2017 South Africa remains a resource-rich region, but has missed opportunities to take advantage of the resources boom. As such, it has suffered more than other resource-rich regions during the industry downturn, says mining networking platform African Mining Network (AMN) chairperson Yolanda Torrisi.... →
Association educates mineworkers and communities
27th October 2017 With new technologies, increasingly stringent legislation and statutory compliance matters, education has become essential in surface mining operations, says Aggregate and Sand Producers Association of Southern Africa (Aspasa) director of surface mining Nico Pienaar. Modern surface mines require... →
Small-scale opencast mining to boost industry
By: Nica Schreuder 27th October 2017 For diamond mining company De Beers’ Venetia mine GM, Benford Mokoatle, opencast mining is the future, owing to changing priorities and mindsets within industry, which must occur to sustain the mining industry in South Africa. Specifically, Mokoatle says the country must begin focusing on... →
Enviro lobby group takes emerging miner to court over phosphate mine’s water-use licence
By: Ilan Solomons 27th October 2017 Emerging miner Kropz has warned that the West Coast Environmental Protection Association’s (WCEPA’s) application to have the water-use license (WUL) for Kropz’s Elandsfontein phosphate mine, near Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape, suspended, would, if successful, cause “irreversible environmental... →
IN THE CROSS HAIRS Kropz is opposing WCEPA’s application, stating that according to legal advice, the bid to have Elandsfontein’s water-use license revoked has ‘no grounds’
AMCU scoffs at allegations of orchestrating killings, tribalism
By: Ilan Solomons 27th October 2017 The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has rejected recent multiple allegations made by media houses that the trade union is orchestrating killings on South Africa’s Platinum Belt, in particular at platinum producers Impala Platinum and Lonmin, and that it engages in... →
JEFFREY MPHAHLELE In relation to the killings the leadership of AMCU has been ‘extremely pained and traumatised’ by what has been taking place
Proximity detection system commissioned, training ongoing
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 27th October 2017 South African mining safety and monitoring solutions provider Monitech has assisted in ensuring that coal miner Sasol Mining complies with Chapter 8 of the Mine Health and Safety Act, which states that all trackless mobile machinery (TMM) should be fitted with a proximity detection system (PDS)... →
Mine.D hackathon seeks to ensure health and safety in mining sector
By: Ilan Solomons 26th October 2017 The Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in collaboration with open innovation firm RIIS, will host the Mine.D hackathon from November 3 to 5, at the precinct, which is located in Braamfontein, in Johannesburg. The precinct, a project managed by the University of the Witwatersrand, is used... →
MINE.D HACKATHON The hackathon will be focused on mixed reality and the Internet of Things and will focus on improving the health and safety practices in the mining sector
Third-quarter Sibanye-Stillwater operating profit up 41%
By: Martin Creamer 26th October 2017 The group operating profit of Sibanye-Stillwater in the three months to the end of September was 41% higher than last year’s third quarter and 5% up year-on-year. The Johannesburg- and New York-listed precious metals mining company, headed by CEO Neal Froneman, on Thursday reported group... →
Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman
Pan African warns ‘rogue elements’ threatening development of Elikhulu
By: Ilan Solomons 25th October 2017 South African precious metals miner Pan African Resources has strongly condemned the protest action by some community members at the company’s Elikhulu tailings retreatment plant project, within the Evander gold mine complex, in Mpumalanga, warning that the unrest threatens to disrupt... →
Elikhulu tailings retreatment plant project, within the Evander gold mine complex, in Mpumalanga
Reactive ground detection tech advancing, conference nears
By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th October 2017 Explosives and blasting company BME is in the testing and development stage of adapting its XRF Delta Pro mineral scanning technology to quickly identify reactive ground conditions on-the-spot to prevent blast site incidents, thereby ensuring safer blasting practices. →
Miners need to focus on long-term economic benefits
By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th October 2017 To alter the cheaper-cost mindset miners sometimes adopt in trying economic times, explosives technical services company R.A. McClure president Robert McClure recommends focusing on long-term downstream gains and valuable technological investments. →
LEARNING CURVE R.A. McClure presents courses that are suitable for individuals involved in blasting operations such as drillers, blasters, managers and operators
Nondetonating timing system promoted to Africa
By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th October 2017 Unless mines pursue safer options, explosives suppliers will continue to supply more dangerous traditional products, stresses initiation system provider Master Blaster CEO Mark Davis. →
Safer rock-breaking alternatives offered
By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th October 2017 Rock-breaking technology supplier Nxco Mining Technologies offers nondetonating cartridges that use a pyrotechnic composition to break rock based on its tensile strength, rather than on its compressive strength as is the case with traditional explosives. →
Materials handling software enhanced
By: Dylan Slater 20th October 2017 New haulage functionality for underground mine operators will be built into the upcoming version of Australia-headquartered consulting and technology company Deswik’s software – Deswik.Suite. →
Sixth death in platinum belt in three months
By: News24Wire 19th October 2017 British platinum mine giant Lonmin has raised "deep concerns" following the death of employee Tholakele Dlunga this week, the sixth in the platinum belt in the North West in the past three months. "Lonmin is deeply concerned by the recent fatal shootings across the platinum belt. The company is... →
‘Digital effectiveness’ tops EY’s 2017/18 risk radar
By: Henry Lazenby 18th October 2017 Professional services firm EY Global has revealed it annual ‘Top 10 business risks facing mining and metals’ report on Tuesday, with new entry ‘digital’ topping the list of most critical risks facing the mining industry in the coming year. This year’s report has seen a reshuffling with digital... →
Miners beware growing cyber risk
By: Henry Lazenby 17th October 2017 Cyber risk has increased in prominence on professional services firm EY’s annual ‘Top 10 business risks facing mining and metals’ report, jumping to third position from ninth in 2016. According to EY's report, which was published on Tuesday, cyber risk is an ever-growing issue – an outcome of... →
RBPlat puts foot on capex accelerator at Styldrift
By: Martin Creamer 12th October 2017 The total capital expenditure (capex) of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) surged on increased mining and construction activities at the company’s Styldrift 1 project in line with ramp-up plans. The black-owned and controlled, mid-tier platinum group metals producer, which operates the Bafokeng... →
Royal Bafokeng Platinum CEO Steve Phiri
‘Industrial manslaughter’ won’t improve safety compliance – QRC
By: Esmarie Swanepoel 11th October 2017 The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has raised concerns about the Queensland government’s proposed changes to workplace health and safety legislation, saying on Wednesday that it would have the perverse outcome of reducing safety. The state government earlier introduced legislative changes to... →
Safer mining conveyance promoted by association
By: Marleny Arnoldi 6th October 2017 Improper conveyor practices in the mining industry cause 4% of overall fatalities, and result from a lack of knowledge on the equipment’s operation and an inability to identify potential hazards, says industry association Conveyor Manufacturers Association of South Africa (CMA). →
Large and small miners announce, plan contract awards for Moz projects
By: Keith Campbell 6th October 2017 Brazilian mining group Vale has awarded Mota-Engil Africa a $445-million contract to supply mining services to the Moatize coal mine, in Mozambique’s Tete province, the Macauhub news agency has reported. Mota-Engil Africa is a subsidiary of the Portuguese engineering, construction, contract... →
Four Mexican miners die of gas poisoning – First Majestic
By: Henry Lazenby 3rd October 2017 Mexico-focused precious metals producer First Majestic Silver has reported the death of four miners at its La Encantada mine, in Coahuila state. The miners died of gas poisoning underground, despite carrying all required personal protection equipment, including safety belt breathing apparatuses,... →
Harmony Gold's Kusasalethu mine back in full production
By: African News Agency 3rd October 2017 Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine near Carletonville in Gauteng, South Africa, is back to full production following temporary closure in August as government was investigating the cause of a seismic event that killed five workers. Operations at the Kusasalethu mine were halted following a seismic... →
America’s ‘most storied mine’ under new management as Bunker Hill aims at restart
By: Henry Lazenby 29th September 2017 One of America’s most famous mines is set to restart operations, after a team of mine developers that have done it before in Idaho’s Silver Valley, recently obtained a lease and option to buy the historic brownfields project. Using a Canadian shell company to advance the acquisition of the... →
The Bunker Hill smelter operating in winter snow in the 1970s
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