Evolving platinum projects to focus on energy efficiency

New platinum-mining projects should focus on cooling strategies that lower electricity reliance and diversify air and cooling demands, asserts diversified miner Anglo American subsidiary Anglo Operations principal engineer for ventilation and...

CTL would produce one-third of all fuels by 2050 without green policy

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reports that a new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology done by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, found that if climate...

Infrastructure deficiencies constraining SA’s manganese growth

Mike Rossouw cites South Africa’s manganese story as being one of South Africa’s saddest mining stories. “We’ve got 80% of the manga-nese reserves and resources in the world, but we only produce about 15% of the world’s manga- nese,...

Infrastructure deficiencies constraining South Africa’s manganese growth

Mike Rossouw cites South Africa’s manganese story as being as one of South Africa’s saddest mining stories.

Sherritt posts Q1 profit

Toronto-based Sherritt International swung to a first quarter profit this year, helped by stronger nickel, cobalt and energy prices. The company earned C$59,7-million, compared with a net loss of C$42,9-million a year earlier, when the firm...

Cool mines with ice

Heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions company Johnson Controls Systems & Service South Africa reports that ice systems used for thermal storage on the surface of mines or for ice dams underground can significantly...

Customised solutions for the mining industry

Notwithstanding the commodity boom of the past few years and the dramatic increase in the price of many minerals and metals, the pressure of global competition in the modern mining industry means every possibility to increase productivity and...

Daily podcast – August 7, 2008

In today's podcast: the aggregate of the combined economies of the 53 countries in Africa collectively represent the fifth largest economy in the world, the national stayaway organised by Cosatuias likely to aggravate the slowdown in the economy...

Daily podcast – July 17, 2008

In today's podcast: internet penetration in South Africa is lagging far behind telephone penetration, SAA achieves a R2-billion turnaround in its 2007/08 financial year, and the one-day strike organised by Cosatu has affected mines in the Free...

Cosatu strike hits SA gold, coal mines

The one-day strike organised by the Congress of Trade Unions of South Africa (Cosatu), was affecting mines in the Free State and Mpumalanga provinces, as workers downed tools in protest to rising food and energy prices. The industrial action...

Daily podcast – July 14, 2008

In today's podcast: the newly launched Enterprise Investment Programme could in the long-term evolve into a tool to support the agriculture industry, World Bank President Robert Zoellick expects food prices to remain above 2004 levels until at...

320 000 miners to join Cosatu mass action

South Africa's biggest labour federation Cosatu would start its campaign of rolling mass action, opposing the rising cost of living, on July 9. Cosatu national spokesperson Patrick Craven commented that the union would continue with the mass...