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:
Glencore’s new low-cost Tweefontein coal mine comes in below budget.
BHP Billiton signs a R10-billion aluminium supply deal with a black consortium.
And, natural gas is a big greenhouse gas contributor.
Glencore’s Tweefontein Optimisation Project has delivered a low-cost, long-life brownfield expansion that has elevated Tweefontein into a modern, predominantly opencast operation that mines the rich pillar reserves that were left behind in discontinued underground workings.
Tweefontein Optimisation Project GM Allen Butcher
The world’s biggest mining company BHP Billiton has agreed a R10-billion, five-year liquid metal supply contract with a black-controlled consortium in a transaction that gives the South African aluminium industry a shot in the arm.
Newco CEO-elect Graham Kerr
While South Africa is serious about integrating natural gas into the country’s energy mix, this could have unexamined consequences for South Africa’s contribution to global warming.
Lewis & Clark Law School associate professor of law Melissa Powers
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