Regional integration key to bolster local diamond industry, beneficiation; Fraser Alexander’s structured funding offering to revolutionise mining industry; And, Local roller manufacturer expands into new mar 

Mining Services and construction company Fraser Alexander has, as part of repositioning its business value proposition, introduced a structured funding offering to its Integrated Mining Service (IMS) for its clients. CEO Velile Nhlapo believes this value proposition will “revolutionise the mining... 

This week: Molefe in forceful defence of Gupta-linked coal deal; Construction of tailings storage facilities at Tharisa platinum mine to be completed in six months; And, Eskom insists R1 600/t is the ‘total cost’ of Anglo coal to Tutuka 

Mine development and construction company Fraser Alexander has concluded a contract for platinum group metals (PGM) miner Tharisa Minerals to install and commission a tailings storage facility at its Tharisa mine.  

The shareholding of the Bafokeng community in South Africa's second-biggest platinum mining company has become a shadow of its former self. The JSE-listed Impala Platinum (Implats) advised on Monday that Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH) had sold off 5% of its shares, leaving the Bafokeng community... 

WE recently published a company profile on a company called Close-Up Mining, based on information supplied to us. The profile included the following sentence: "The company is 26% black-owned. This includes a 16% shareholding that was sold to Fraser Alexander in 2013/14, whihc is 100-owned by... 

A team of technicians, artisans and engineers from heavy engineering services provider Baldmin Projects is currently on site at gold producer Metallon Gold Mines’ Mazowe mine, in Zimbabwe erecting structures, for the installation and commissioning of the mine’s flotation and leach plant scheduled... 

This week we feature Velile Nhlapo, the CEO of Fraser Alexander, the 5 000-employee, R2.5-billion a year outsource mining services company, active in tailings management, mining, material logistics and minerals processing 

Black-controlled mining services company Fraser Alexander has won the Glencore group discard and handling services contracts for Tweefontein Boschmans, Impunzi Atcom, Impunzi ATC and Koornfontein coal mines. The Royal Bafokeng Holdings-owned Fraser Alexander said in a release that the size of the... 

Fraser Alexander have managed to secure the Glencore Group Discard and Handling Services contracts for Tweefontein Boschmans, Impunzi ATCOM, Impunzi ATC and Koornfontein Mine. The size of the operation enabled Fraser Alexander to share resources and employ its in-house designed discard hauler and... 

Plant commissioning and production at Zimbabwe gold producer Metallon’s Mazowe mine’s sand retreatment plant is expected to start next month, company CEO Kenneth Mekani tells Mining Weekly. Once completed, the plant will mill 60 000 t/m, overtaking Metallon’s 35 000 t/m Shamva mine as the... 

Gold miner Metallon Corporation produced 24 385 oz of gold in the three months ended March 31. Although output was 15% below the targeted output of 28 654 oz, it was 8% higher compared with that produced in the March 2014 quarter. 

Liming Lu from Australia’s CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship will be the international guest speaker at the 3rd annual Iron Ore Beneficiation Africa conference. Mr Lu will be giving a technical presentation covering the evaluation of iron ore for iron production on the morning of day 2. The event... 

Pan African expects first gold production to start at its Evander tailings treatment project this month. 

Jaap Nel has stepped down as CEO and as a member of the board of directors of mining solutions company Fraser Alexander, which is a subsidiary of Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH), on October 13. 

Jaap Nel has stepped down as CEO and as a member of the board of directors of mining solutions company Fraser Alexander, which is a subsidiary of Royal Bafokeng Holdings. His resignation is effective October 13. 

The Husab project currently ranks as the third-largest global uranium-only deposit and is comfortably the largest uranium deposit in Namibia. 

A phased implementation strategy, comprising four work programmes, has been adopted by London-listed Premier African Minerals to develop its RHA tungsten project, in Zimbabwe. Several contractors have been appointed to deliver the new strategy, which included trade-off studies, an early works... 

Africa-focused iron-ore mining company Cavalla Resources, which is owned by private investment holding company Jonah Capital, has completed a definitive feasibility study (DFS) on its Buchanan iron-ore project, in the City of Buchanan, in Liberia. Jonah Capital CEO John Barton-Bridges tells... 

The Evander tailings treatment project will increase Evander’s gold production by up to 10 000 oz/y at a low cash cost.