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:
A ‘depressed’ PGM market cycle stalls RBPlat’s Styldrift expansion.
ArcelorMittal South Africa flags its iron-ore import plan as it seeks a new pricing deal with Kumba.
And, Roytec clinches a Zimbabwe contract and now boasts a R100-million order book.
Royal Bafokeng Platinum plans to scale back on construction at its Styldrift 1 expansion project, owing to a sustained depression in the platinum group metals market.
RBPlat CEO Steve Phiri
Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa has signalled that it is aiming to reopen historically fraught iron-ore pricing negotiations with Kumba Iron Ore.
ArcelorMittal CEO Paul O’Flaherty
Filtration and separation solutions provider Roytec completed testing and adapting a larger filter press system for mining company Bindura Nickel Corporation’s Trojan nickel mine, in Zimbabwe. Roytec business development director Peter Sampson discusses the significance of this project for the company.
Roytec business development director Peter Sampson
Ilan Solomons:
Sampson also highlights the importance Roytec places on research and development, noting that over the past four years the company’s research unit has developed several industry leading technologies, such as its RadFlow feedwell system.
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