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This week: Mining industry doyen Brian Gilbertson is bullish on platinum-group metals. The shortage of rock engineers is an increasing problem. And, steel specialist VR Laser Services moves to its new 22 000 m2 premises.

Tokyo conference to showcase gold’s industrial advances – Mintek

Gold continues to search for its industrial potential, particularly at the nanoscale. Minuscule, nanosized gold particles – measuring three- to four-millionths of a millimetre – are selectively reactive at a nanoscale, while remaining stable...

Tokyo conference to showcase gold’s industrial advances – Mintek

Gold continues to search for its industrial potential, particularly at the nanoscale. Minuscule, nanosized gold particles – measuring three- to four-millionths of a millimetre – are selectively reactive at the nanoscale, while remaining stable...

20/04/2012 (On-The-Air)

South Africans are spearheading a new mining thrust in bauxite-rich West Africa; Gold is supplying a missing piece in South Africa’s quest to regrow its industrialisation base; and Eskom intends taking the power of the sun to a new level in...

06/04/2012 (On-The-Air)

South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development Corporation is investing billions of rands in the platinum industry; The Department of Trade and Industry is going all out to boost South Africa’s struggling manufacturing sector. Here is...

IDC invests big in revamped Platmin, Wits plans major mine research thrust, Rio moves mine automation to India

South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has made its biggest single investment in five years - R3.24-billion - in Platmin’s comeback as an integrated mining and beneficiation Newco; Wits University is resuscitating...

SA govt grants PTM mining right

Canada’s Platinum Group Metals (PTM) has received a mining right from the South African government for its flagship project in the country, the TSX- and Amex-listed company said on Wednesday. PTM also said it would finalise by the end of the...

Gilbertson ‘very, very bullish’ on platinum-group metals

Mining industry doyen Brian Gilbertson, who has been involved in several landmark industry-making investments, foresees South Africa’s platinum endowment as providing the potential for yet another industry-making surge. Besides the outlook of...

Pallinghurst looking at new opportunities as portfolio matures

JSE-listed Pallinghurst Resources CE Arne Frandsen on Friday said the company intended to pursue a number of new investment opportunities, both within its current portfolio and in developing investment platforms, as its original portfolio...

IDC invests big in Gilbertson/Frandsen new-look platinum integration

South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has made its biggest single investment in five years - R3.24-billion - in Platmin’s comeback as an integrated miner and beneficiater. The delisted Platmin, now enhanced and...

Company Announcement: Pallinghurst and Bakgatla Form A Strategic Partnership To Create A Major New PGM Producer

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa today announced a major investment in the platinum mining and beneficiation industry that will see the creation of a significant platinum group metals company in the North West Province of...

Company Announcement: Saki Macozoma’s Mining Company Wins Conservation Award

Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining (PTY) Ltd., a South African company creating a new manganese mine in a remote corner of the Northern Cape, has won a conservation award for its work in protecting endangered secretarybirds.