In a continent blessed with a wealth of mineral resources, these riches also carry an underlying tone of blackness fraught with pollution, land degradation and health and safety risks.
Manufacturer of flexible conduits Flexicon, of the UK, and its local exclusive distributor and representative Elquip Solutions, aims to, as part of their marketing strategy, increase their focus on hazardous environments, including the mining...
The ferrous metals industry has a large over capacity in terms of its ability to produce ferrochrome and, even with the recent surge in demand from Chinese markets, it will still take some time before industry could fully draw on this capacity,...
Key role-players in resolving the environmental threat posed by acid mine drainage (AMD) in South Africa’s Witwatersrand (Wits) Basin points out that there is a “tight deadline” for decisions by the State and Rand Water if their proposed...
Coal-miner Sasol fully intended to be a world leader in carbon capture and storage (CSS) technology, Sasol CEO Pat Davies said on Monday.
Davies said that Sasol, the world's only commercial coal-to-liquids (CTL) company, saw CSS as one of the...
Coal-miner Sasol on Monday expressed disappointment at losing its black economic empowerment (BEE) partnership with Exxaro.
The black-controlled JSE-listed Exxaro is South Africa's largest coal producer.
Sasol CFO Christine Ramon, in an item not...
Diversified engineering company Metso Minerals has described Africa as a continent that holds vast expansion potential and has been identified as a key market for the company in the future.
Despite marginal improvements in safety performance, 11 of South African miner Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) employees died at work during the financial year ended June 30, 2009. Post year-end, a further nine employees lost their lives in a...
A "very strong" resurgence in Chinese jewellery at the lower platinum prices has prompted Impala Platinum (Implats) to forecast that sales for 2009 will be 70% higher than in 2008, at 1,4-million ounces.
Implats marketing executive Derek...
Diversified miner African Rainbow Minerals (Arm) aims to be producing at least 100 000 t/y of copper in five years, CEO André Wilkens tells Mining Weekly Online.
Wilkens says that the company is already in a sweet spot with the commodities it...
Increasing gold theft from South African mines was funding international terrorism and human trafficking and amounted to a global money-laundering operation of huge magnitude, Pan African Resources CEO Jan Nelson said on Tuesday.
"Dirty money is...
The palladium price is likely to rise steadily on the back of Russian destocking, growth of the petrol-driven car market and thrifting, Impala Platinum (Implats) marketing executive Derek Engelbrecht says.
Engelbrecht does not expect it suddenly...
