Real Economy Report

This is the Real Economy Report. Our top stories this week: we report on South African involvement in Europe's giant $6,6-billion super-experiment, the Large Hadron Collider; an update on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project; and we witness a...

23/01/2009 (On-The-Air)

In this broadcast: South Africa’s home-built pilotless aircraft has successfully completed its first flight; South Africa has a unique opportunity to grasp the new-energy nettle and position itself as one of the renewable energy capitals of the...

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)...

28/11/2008 (On-The-Air)

In this broadcast: South African scientists are building three aircraft that will fly without pilots, as unmanned air vehicles; More than 200 retired engineers have been brought back to work to help 160 South African municipalities deliver...

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...

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...

Polyurethane barricade increases protection and profits

Polyurethane product design and manufacturer Uretech has teamed up with the Ibeshu Blast Barricade patent holder Alf Bronner to introduce the curtain blast barricade system to the mining market.

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...

Carbon capturing and storage processes set to reduce CO2 emissions

The Minister of the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), Buyelwa Sonjica, speaking at the international Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum held in Cape Town earlier this year, announced that South Africa is considering its approach to...

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...

Companies join forces to address mining-related water pollution

To arrest the problem of acid mine drainage (AMD) in the Witwatersrand Basin area, a state-of-the-art water -treatment plant capable of processing 75-million litres of AMD to industrial ‘grey-water’ quality, has been established at the...

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...