Inyanda coal plant successfully commissioned

Process plant design company DRA Minerals Projects (DRA) has successfully commissioned the Inyanda coal washing plant. DRA was awarded the R116 million project in January 2007 and took 18 months to complete the 360 t/h crushing, dense media (DM)...

SA's Mintek can be a second Vale, says new CEO

With a history extending as far back as 1934, Mintek, South Africa’s national minerals-research organisation, celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary next year, and the beginning of the 2007/8 financial year saw the emergence of a new Mintek...

Environmental groups spearhead AMD resolution

Environmental group the Western Basin Environmental Corporation (WBEC) and subsidiary of Watermark Global, the Western Utilities Corporation (WUC), are making progress in resolving and reversing the contamination of water sources in and around the...

South Africa’s Mintek can be a second Vale, says new CEO

With a history extending as far back as 1934, Mintek, South Africa’s national minerals-research organisation, celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary next year, and the beginning of the 2007/8 financial year saw the emergence of a new Mintek...

Real Economy Report

This is the Real Economy Report. Our top stories this week: the CEO of the CSIR talks about the capabilities of the Council's Blue Gene supercomputer, we speak to Bernard Swanepoel on bringing Village Main back to life, and we look at the CSIR and...

Trapped-miner location equipment developed

A newly developed trapped miner locator system is capable of locating trapped workers at the onset of the search and continuously tracking the miners’ during the process. The system was developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial...

Mine water treatment plant under way

The wastewater treatment demonstration plant to be built at Anglo Coal’s operations in the Emalahlehi municipality using the GypSLiM process, is under way, and product recovery as well as industrial waste recycling company Sulphide Tech process...

New x-ray machine settles dust around silicosis

The advent of an x-ray diffraction (XRD) machine promises to enhance research into the harmful affects of silica dust on mine workers, in deep-level gold mines in South Africa.

New equipment to assist in the drive to combat silicosis

To improve the quality and speed up the laboratory analysis of silica dust, a health hazard in the mining industry, parastatal science council the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has acquired the Bruker D8 Advance, an x-ray...

Research body devises new measuring, monitoring system for mines

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is currently researching a methodology called AziSA (Zulu for 'make known'), which is being developed as a non-proprietary open standard and reference open source system...

Increased road transportation pressurises local logistics sector

Increased use of South Africa's roads, particularly for the transport of mining commodities, has put pressure on the local logistics industry reports the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) logistics spokesperson CSIR Built...

Process turns sulhpur waste and minerals into usable sulphur, sulphuric acid

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and its industrial partner Key Structure Holdings (KSH) are demonstrating a technology capable of converting sulphur bearing wastes and minerals into sulphur and sulphuric acid.