Energy efficient products high priority in mining industry

Pumps manufacturer Grundfos has added two energy-efficient products to its heavy-duty dewatering pumps range for the mining industry, which complies with its aim of saving natural resources and reducing the impact of climate change.

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...

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...

Bright future for African coal - AfDB

Coal production in Africa will increase at an average of three percent a year to 2011, on rising demand especially from Asia, a senior African Development Bank official forecast on Friday. A sharp increase in oil prices, which touched a record...

Chinese creating joint venture to gain access to DRC metals

Chinese companies are, with local partners, intending to create a joint venture (JV) to invest $2,9-billion in a copper and cobalt mining project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

All new coal power stations should be carbon-capture ready, says international agency

All new coal plant the world over should be built in such a way that they are ready to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which are seen as the main cause of global warming and climate change, says International Energy Agency (IEA)...

Large amounts of precious minerals being smuggled out of country

Zimbabwe is losing an estimated US$50-million worth of precious minerals a month through smuggling and other illegal leakages, a government minister has said.

New soft starter gives motors 'intelligence'

In response to South Africa’s diminishing energy supplies and its need to become more energy efficient, Johannesburg firm Innomet has begun importing Powerboss.