Kenmare reports lower January output at Moma

The January production at Irish mining group Kenmare Resources’ Moma mine, in Mozambique, was lower-than-expected, owing to the continuing effect on mining of a clay-rich ore band in the mine path and significantly adverse weather conditions....

Lion ferrochrome complex expansion Phase 2, South Africa

Xstrata has reported, in its preliminary results for 2012, that the Lion ferrochrome expansion project is 11% complete.

Renewable energy on its own unable to power deep-level cooling systems

Current renewable energy technologies will be unable to power the cooling requirements of deep level mines without the support of a traditional electricity supply, says Johnsons Controls South Africa engineering manager Russell Hattingh.

Company Announcement: Mines set to start using their own steam as power costs soar

Mining companies’ concerns over electricity supply in South Africa are fuelling a drive towards self-sufficiency, with some mines on the point of investing in their own power generation facilities. “The feasibility studies have been completed...

Energy-intensive users prepared to reduce demand

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – 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...

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...

Russia’s Renova mulling uplift of South African manganese business

The Russian Renova group is considering enhancement of its South African manganese operations, involving the possible integration of its Transalloys manganese smelter in Mpumalanga and its partly owned manganese mine in the Kalahari. It is...

Company Announcement: Astra sign MOU for thermal coal site in Nigeria

International diversified resources company, Astra Resources, has signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint venture development of a thermal coalexploration license in Nigeria.

Miners unruffled by post-Fukushima nuclear retreats

The decisions by countries like Germany, Italy and Switzerland to phase out or cancel nuclear programmes in the wake of the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant this year does not represent a broader trend away from nuclear energy, uranium...

A review of South Africa’s Electricity Industry 2011 is available for purchase online

The brief reprieve offered to South Africa's electricity sector by the global slowdown served more to engender a false sense of electricity security than to facilitate the roll-out of additional power generation capacity, and Eskom has begun...

Pamodzi liquidators act to prevent ‘major eco disaster’

The joint provisional liquidators of the troubled Pamodzi Gold’s East Rand mining assets are preparing a proposal to the Department of Water Affairs to prevent a potential “major ecological disaster". Icon Insolvency Practitioners’ Johan...

29/04/2011 (On-The-Air)

Houses are being built with material recovered from polluted Mpumalanga mine water; Pick n Pay is ‘picking’ the sun rather than Eskom for its future electricity supply and Johannesburg is one of 20 global cities where revolutionary new school...