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Tender work arising from state contracts

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Tender work arising from state contracts

Company Announcement: Optimising mine productivity to optimise revenue

As mines around the world continue to focus on cutting costs, technology is being adopted to make the most of human and mechanical resources in order to improve revenues. As in any business, however, technology will only deliver results when the...

Software solution for underground mining activity gains popularity

Mining software solutions developer, Micromine’s software application that allows mining companies to track and manage the underground movement of personnel, vehicles and ore, has been positively received by the mining industry Micromine Africa...

Indian iron-ore users, traders to register with government

In a bid to curb illegal mining, the Indian Mines Ministry has directed mining regulator, the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), to mandatorily register all traders and end-users of iron-ore. The regulator has some 9 000 mining leases registered,...

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Mining software provider to exhibit new efficient mining process

Australia-based mining and exploration software provider Micromine says the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2012 is the perfect platform to showcase the company’s Micromine 2011 software package, which it believes will simplify mining and...

Company Announcement: Postcards from the future

Alan Begg, SKF Senior Vice President of Group Technology Development explains that technologies move at dramatically different speeds but, whatever the pace, it’s the concerns of today that will drive the changes of tomorrow

The CSIR working on robots to improve mine safety

Mining is a dangerous occupation, and South Africa’s hard rock (gold and platinum) mining is more dangerous than most (but not all) types of mining. In the period January 1 to August 15 this year, 76 South African miners lost their lives in...

04/11/2011 (On-The-Air)

We see that researchers are developing robots to improve safety in South Africa’s dangerous underground mines; De Beers is going all out to create thousands of non-mining jobs as it pulls out of diamond mining on South Africa’s West Coast; and...

The CSIR working on robots to improve mine safety

Mining is a dangerous occupation, and South Africa’s hard rock (gold and platinum) mining is more dangerous than most (but not all) types of mining. In the period January 1 to August 15 this year, 76 South African miners lost their lives in...