Resources Watch

19th March 2015 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:
ARM’s Patrice Motsepe urges serious government intervention on Eskom let down.
Documentaries on the horrors of mining’s past mooted at Coalsafe.
And, BSG vows to clear its name after bribery allegations.

Diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals chairperson Patrice Motsepe has urged the government to intervene seriously to establish Eskom as a competitive, cost-effective, reliable provider of electricity.

African Rainbow Minerals chairperson Patrice Motsepe

The recent Coalsafe 2015 coal safety conference heard that consideration was being given to the creation of monuments and the compilation of documentaries to reflect the undignified past of mineworkers dying in their droves on South Africa’s mines.

SA Colliery Managers’ Association president Ronaldt Mafoko

Mining company BSG Resources is determined to clear its name and ensure that its assets in Guinea are “returned”.

BSG CEO Marc Struik

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