Company Announcement: AEL Mining Services participates in WAMPEX 2012

6 - 8 June 2012 - Accra Convention Centre

Centralised blasting promotes safety in mining

Blasting solutions company AEL Mining Services has significantly reduced the amount of time deep-level mining crews are exposed to possible fall-of-ground (FoG) conditions, with its proven centralised blasting system (CBS).

Explosives manufacturer set to target Botswana coal projects

AEL Botswana, a member of the international AEL Mining Services group, is looking to future opportunities in the country’s coal and electricity sectors as Botswana’s Coal Roadmap indicates an estimated 212-billion tons of coal reserves.

South Deep gold mine expansion, South Africa

Construction of the largest cemented full plant tailings backfill plant in South Africa is nearing the end of full commissioning at South Deep mine.

AECI to expand into Africa, Asia and South America

Industrial chemicals and explosives manufacturer AECI is continuing to look at expansion opportunities for its explosives business, AEL Mining Services, into markets beyond South Africa, especially the rest of Africa, Asia Pacific and South...

Company Announcement: Agility and Partnership are Key Drivers for Mining Suppliers in Africa

Johannesburg – South Africa – February 2012 - With an estimated explosive sales’ potential for Africa’s greenfields pegged at 500 million US dollars over the next 5 years, mining services companies need to step up and provide quality...

Safer detonators to be exported into Africa

Explosives manufacturer AEL Mining Services aims to export its latest offering, the safer and more environment-friendly third-generation (3G) Shock-Tube Uni-Delay LP (long-period) detonator, into Africa, specifically focusing on Zimbabwe, Botswana...

Company Announcement: Surface drilling & blasting symposium hailed as "a beyond expectation succes"

The first symposium held under the auspices of The Mining Forum in Johannesburg in October, focusing on surface drilling and blasting, has been hailed as a beyond-expectation success.

Company Announcement: Denel PMP invests in new explosive

Pretoria Metal Pressings, today opened a new manufacturing facility that will significantly expand its capacity to produce primary explosives for end users in the chemical and mining sectors.

Electronically initiated blasts lead mining into the future

The number of mines using the new range of electronic wireless initiating system technologies is steadily increasing, explosives manufacturer AEL Mining Services reports.

Power-driven pump introduced for emulsion explosives

Blasting solutions company AEL Mining Services has added an electric-driven portable pump to its portfolio to enable the use of emulsion explosives in a conventional mining environment, where mines do not have compressed air.

New centre makes significant progress

Blasting solutions company AEL Mining Services’ R2-million skills development centre, in Modderfontein, has trained 978 people in various programmes, courses and assessments since its launch late last year.