Transnet expects to rail 70Mt of coal, Exxaro plays its iron-ore card, Mboweni brothers in iron-ore BEE

South Africa’s State-owned freight logistics group Transnet says that it is on track to deliver between 70-million and 72-million tons of coal to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) by its financial year-end on March 31; black-owned...

Transnet expects to rail more than 70MT of coal in 2012 financial year

South Africa’s State-owned freight logistics group Transnet indicated on Tuesday that it was on track to deliver between 70-million and 72-million tons of coal to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) by its financial year-end on March 31,...

Switchgear facility to open gates to mining sector

US industrial group General Electric (GE) expects the R10-million expansion of its energy division GE Energy’s low-voltage switchgear manufacturing centre to create the platform the company needs to extend its offering into the mining arena.

12/08/2011 (On-The-Air)

South Africa’s biggest gold miner is keen to take a journey to the centre of the earth to liberate 100-million ounces of deep gold; government is going all out to give new impetus to its R860-billion public investment programme and we look at...

AngloGold parries nationalisation, embraces ultradeeps as gold soars

Booming South African gold miner AngloGold Ashanti, with record 68%-up second-quarter earnings of $342-million and a generous dividend boost, gave notice of its intention to deliver a nationalisation-parrying econo-socio model and is advancing...

GE to set up A$80m training centre in Perth

Multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) has announced plans for a new A$80-million Perth-based training centre, which would develop skills for the oil and gas, mining, energy, transportation and water industries. The GE complex, designed...

New locomotives to help Transnet increase capacity

The first diesel-electric locomotives to be imported to sub-Saharan Africa were delivered to State-owned Transnet’s Koedoespoort manufacturing facility on Monday, as part of the freight logistic group’s fleet renewal plan and R110-billion...

AngloGold broaching nonblast automated continuous mining of deep gold

South Africa still has one of the biggest gold resources in the world, but that gold is at depth, which results in significant amounts of the precious metal having to be locked up in shaft pillars and stability pillars, because blasting snarls up...

28/01/2011 (On-The-Air)

In this show: big technology companies collaborate to access 100-million ounces of gold; South Africa's Northern Cape is selected fora R100-million project to break the world land-speed record; and a 100% black-owned flexible plastic packaging...

Kopex & Genwest

Explosion preventative, flameproof, coal shuttle car.

Rare earth junior wants 2015 output from Wyoming project

Vancouver-based Rare Element Resources (RER), which is studying a project in Wyoming, could be producing by 2015 if all goes according to plan, CFO Mark Brown said on Thursday. The TSX-V-listed company will complete a scoping study on the Bear...

Breathing new life into old locomotives

Two 33-year-old General Electric U10B locomotives, which belong to platinum producer Anglo Platinum’s (Angloplat’s) Amandelbult mine, were given a new lease of life when they were completely refurbished and put back into service in March 2010.