Resources Watch

27th March 2014 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Resources Watch

Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.

This week:
Amplats’ has $100-million in firepower for platinum metals development.
AMD pumps are installed at the Witwatersrand Central Basin.
And, multicommodity projects are being rolled out on Bushveld’s rich northern limb.

Platinum major Anglo American Platinum is targeting co-investors to help it treble the $100-million financial firepower that it’s directing at further development of the platinum group metals market.

Amplats senior manager international market development Kleantha Pillay

The Department of Water Affairs recently inserted pumps into the Witwatersrand Central basin acid mine drainage facility, in Germiston, bringing the R319-million project closer to operation.

Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa

Multicommodity-focused projects embracing iron-ore, vanadium, titanium and phosphate are rolling out on the rich northern limb of South Africa’s Bushveld Complex, a huge mineral repository best known for its world-leading platinum and chrome endowment.

Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo

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