Company Announcement: Industrial minerals JV with Energizer Resources

Malagasy Minerals Industrial Minerals JV with Canada’s Energizer Resources Inc POTENTIAL GRAPHITE CAMP DISCOVERY Malagasy Minerals Limited (“Malagasy”) (ASX: MGY) advises that its Joint Venture Partner Energizer Resources Inc of Canada has...

Khumani mine expansion project, South Africa

The Khumani iron-ore expansion project is continuing ahead of schedule.

Mobile unit cools mines without chilled water

Multidisciplinary engineering company M-Tech Industrial has introduced a locally patented modular underground air-cooling unit (ACU), which uses water at temperatures as high as 40 °C in the heat sink, instead of only chilled water, to directly...

Solutions company pioneers early-warning device for hot holes

Commercial explosives and blasting solutions provider AEL Mining Services has developed and launched Hot Eye, a temperature monitoring device that will assist in detecting and reducing the safety risks posed by hot holes in coal surface mining.

Cooling solution for Africa’s deep-level mines

With three new units of desalination company IDE Technologies’ Vacuum Ice Makers (VIM) 850 successfully commissioned at gold major AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine, in the North West province of South Africa, in early 2009, IDE representative...

Colliery takes delivery of first SA-made low-seam twin-boom mobile bolter

Sandvik’s Mining & Construction factory in Nigel has manufactured, for a local colliery, the first low seam twin-boom mobile bolter to be built in South Africa from fully home-grown parts and material.

SA union says Angloplat’s 6% wage increase too low

South Africa’s largest mining union has rejected a 6% pay offer by world-number one platinum-miner Anglo Platinum (Angloplat). The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) demanded a 15% wage increase from the company on Wednesday. Anglopat...

High-temperature 
solutions specialist 
provides new technology

High temperature solutions company Insulcon South Africa (SA), an autonomous division of the global Insulcon group has launched Foamfrax, a ceramic fibre foam which provides insulation in environments ranging from 1 260 °C to 1 600 °C.

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Energy efficient ice technology used at gold major’s operations

Gold major AngloGold Ashanti has installed an energy efficient cooling system at its Mponeng mine that will see the mine reduce its energy demand by as much as 10 MW of electricity during peak times and is expected to bring about a year...

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Tender work from state contracts

280-t hauler offers latest ac technology

Mining and construction equipment manufacturer Komatsu’s new 860E-1K rigid frame truck is the latest addition to its line of electric-drive, mining-class haulers. The truck is designed for a nominal payload of 254 t and is available with an...