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PERU

Unions ready strike at Peru's Buenaventura again Restricted

Unions at the main mines of Peruvian precious metals company Buenaventura said on Thursday they will go on strike again next week demanding a larger share of profits. The walkouts are slated for next Friday at the Antapite gold mine, and Saturday...
19th March 2010
 
IRON-ORE

Consolidated Thompson considers doubling iron-ore output Restricted

Emerging Canadian iron-ore producer Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines expects to declare commercial production at its Bloom Lake mine, in Quebec, by April this year, and should have the results of a study on doubling production a month later, CEO...
19th March 2010
 
Environmental

Bioremediation - nature restoring nature Restricted

Environmental solutions company Procon Environmental Technologies has noticed that local coal mines are creating landfill sites where they undertake their own remediation on site to prevent excessive environmental damage.
 
Environmental

Environmental company assigned to power station project Restricted

Environmental consulting company Golder Associates head of the ecology division Danie Otto has recently completed his third search and rescue project for State-owned power utility Eskom's new Kusile power station, where hundreds of protected and...
 
SUSTAINABLE MINING

Malawi official elected head of 
global mining, metals and 
sustainable development body Restricted

The director Malawi’s Geological Survey Department (GSD), Leonard Kalindekafe, is the new chairperson of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development, a global forum aimed at enhancing the contribution of...
19th March 2010
 
Environmental

Mines get to grips with green issues Restricted

For the mining industry in Southern Africa, environmental and social issues are no longer ‘nice to have’ items, but are key to developing and running sustainable businesses.
 
CONTRACT MINING

Mining division may be listed – Basil Read Restricted

The mining division of the JSE-listed Basil Read construction group may be hived off into a separately listed entity.

Basil Read CEO Marius Heyns tells Mining Weekly that the company is working on a strategy to extract optimum value for...
19th March 2010
 
Environmental

New air quality monitoring 
system introduced into South African industry Restricted

International environmental air quality monitoring specialists Aeroqual has launched its AQM 60 Air Quality Station in South Africa. The unit introduces compact and cost effective air quality monitoring for industries and urban areas.
19th March 2010
 
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS

New JV resuscitates North West limestone drilling project Restricted

Cement company Mafikeng Cement Company (MCC) is reinitiating its limestone exploration project for a one-million ton cement manufacturing plant, valued at between $150-million and $170-million, with its new joint venture (JV) partner, cement...
19th March 2010
 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Optimum Coal's water treatment plant to be completed next month Restricted

Local black-owned and controlled mining and exploration company Optimum Coal anticipates that its water treatment plant, with a daily desalinating capacity of 15-million litres, will be completed by April 2010.
19th March 2010
 
EXPLORATION

Sasol wants to explore for shale gas in the Karoo Video Available Restricted

Gas-to-liquids (GTL) producer Sasol has applied to explore for shale gas in the Karoo, together with Chesapeake Energy and Statoil ASA. The application is for an onshore right to search for the natural shale-based gas, which has already caused...
8th March 2010
 
COAL

Sasol allocates R3,1bn for new export coal mine Video Available Restricted

Coal miner Sasol has allocated R3,1-billion for the new export coal mine to replace the depleting Twisdraai operation. The Thubelisha export coal mine, already under construction, will also supply Sasol's synfuels factory in Secunda, in...
8th March 2010
 
GOLD

Aurizon could pour first gold from Joanna project mid-2012 Video Available Restricted

Aurizon Mines CEO David Hall Vancouver-based Aurizon Mines still plans to complete a feasibility study on its Joanna project in Quebec by the end of this year, which could set it up to pour the first gold at the mine around mid-2012, CEO David Hall said on Sunday. Aurizon...
8th March 2010
 
PUBLIC LISTINGS

JSE wants more miners, but access to capital an issue Video Available Restricted

JSE business development and marketing director Noah Greenhill The fact that there are just 69 mining companies listed on the JSE, compared with thousands on the TSX and TSX Venture Exchange is "a bit embarrassing”, JSE business development and marketing director Noah Greenhill commented in Toronto on...
6th March 2010
 
SOUTH AFRICA

Nationalisation a non-starter, SA Minister assures in Toronto Video Available Restricted

South African Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu South Africa will not adopt a policy of nationalisation of mines, the country's Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu asserted in Toronto on Saturday. There is also no intention to introduce “stringent measures” as part of the review of...
6th March 2010
 
BASE METALS

Equinox to seek finance for uranium plant, mulls M&A Video Available Restricted

Equinox Minerals, which owns the Lumwana copper mine in Zambia, plans to seek funding and offtake deals for its uranium project and will also consider acquiring a second copper project or mine, CEO Craig Williams said on Friday. Uranium ore is...
5th March 2010
 
COPPER

R462m cash mining profit signals Metorex's growing strength – CEO Video Available Restricted

The R462-million cash mining profit of the JSE-listed Metorex indicates the growing strength of the formerly troubled diversified mining company. "We've got through most of the woods," Metorex CEO Terence Goodlace told Mining Weekly Online in a...
2nd March 2010
 
IRON-ORE

Highveld mulls sale of Mapochs iron-ore to third parties Video Available Restricted

Evraz international operations head Pavel Tatyanin Vertically-integrated steel and vanadium producer Highveld was considering developing its Mapochs iron-ore mine into an "independent mining play", potentially releasing it to sell production to customers other than its Mpumalanga-based steel plant...
2nd March 2010
 
MINE HEALTH & SAFETY

Creative company incorporates venomous snakes in mine safety campaigns Video Available Restricted

Creative communications company Unplugged has developed a safety campaign for mining companies using venomous snakes as a metaphor for safety hazards in the workplace. Unplugged creative director Rick Melvill tells Mining Weekly that the company...
26th February 2010
 
PLATINUM

Northam Platinum likely to go to market for R3bn Booysendal – CEO Video Available Restricted

Northam Platinum CEO Glyn Lewis JSE-listed platinum miner Northam was likely to go to the market to finance the proposed R3-billion 1 200-employee Booysendal platinum mine in Mpumalanga province, its CEO Glyn Lewis said on Tuesday. Lewis said in reply to mining analyst Nic...
23rd February 2010
 
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