Energy intensive users prepared to reduce demand

Power utility Eskom’s biggest industrial customers, mainly mining and manufacturing companies, on Tuesday indicated that they would scale down demand to prevent rolling blackouts if the country’s electricity situation deteriorated. Eskom this...

CoM elect Optimum Coal’s Teke as second VP

The Chamber of Mines of South Africa on Tuesday announced that Optimum Coal’s CEO Mike Teke had been elected VP at the chamber’s 121st annual general meeting. Teke takes over from Anglo American Platinum CE Neville Nicolau, who did not avail...

BHP Billiton Hillside strike continues

About a third of workers at BHP Billiton's Hillside aluminium smelter in Richards Bay were on strike, the company said late on Monday. "Approximately a third of our workforce is involved in this dispute with 50-150 people demonstrating in an...

Hillside aluminium workers reject pay rise offer

Striking workers at BHP Billiton's Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa on Friday rejected the company's revised pay rise offer, a National Union of Metalworkers spokesman said. Some workers at the aluminium unit at Richards Bay, in the...

Sustainable-mining centre to be established at Wits

A new educational centre dedicated to the issue of sustainability in mining, and which will be used to educate personnel from mining and related industries, is to be established at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).

BHP Billiton to trigger African energy growth

Resources giant BHP Billiton is in a position to trigger energy growth in Africa, executive director Mike Salamon told a media briefing at which new South Africa chairperson Dr Vincent Maphai was introduced.

Maphai to head BHP Billiton SA

The world’s largest diversified miner BHP Billiton yesterday announced the appointment of Dr Vincent Maphai to the position of chairperson of its wholly owned subsidiary BHP Billiton South Africa, in Johannesburg, on May 1, 2004.

Former Billiton man joins gem firm

Australian diamond company Namakwa announced yesterday that it has strengthened its board ahead of the development of its diamond project on South Africa’s west coast with the appointment of a senior South African mining executive to liaise...

Roadshow to garner global interest in mine fund

The roadshow to fully capitalise the New Africa Mining Fund (NAMF), launched last month, is expected to set off early next year.