Company Announcement: Cementation Close to Completing Phase 1 of South Deep FPT Backfill Plant

Murray & Roberts Cementation is close to completing the construction of a cemented full plant tailings (FPT) backfill plant at Gold Fields’ South Deep Gold Mine near Westonaria. The commissioning of phase one of the new plant— the largest of...

TCTA again warns of funding shortfall for acid water projects

South Africa’s Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) reports that it is making some progress in implementing emergency and near-term projects designed to deal with the problem of acid mine drainage (AMD) arising on the eastern, central and...

CRG to start conventional trial mining next month

JSE- and LSE-listed Central Rand Gold (CRG) said on Thursday that it would start a three-month trial of conventional mining at its operations under Johannesburg. The company, which is moving to place its underground mining operations on care and...

Interim acid mine water solution to cost R218m – Minister

An interim solution for the toxic tide of acid mine water rising beneath the surface of South Africa's Witwatersrand area will cost government an estimated R145-million, Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Wednesday. Speaking at the...

Barge-mounted power plant, Papua New Guinea

The project involves the supply of a barge-mounted power plant to serve the Lihir Island gold mine.

Concern raised as two Western Basin mines stop pumping, treating mine void water

The Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE) informs Mining Weekly that two of the three mining companies responsible for cleaning and treating the toxic mine water in the Western Basin have once again stopped pumping and treating the mine...

Toxic water level rises 
as government, miners 
bicker about the cost of cleaning up

Disputes between the government and mining companies over the cost of cleaning up the toxic water caused by mining, have led to the rapid rise in the water level following the partial closure of a water treatment plant outside Randfontein.

Global accounting body relooks at mining-sector reporting standards

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has commissioned a research project on extractive activities, to take a “fresh look” at how mining companies report and account for mineral, oil and gas reserves and resources. The project...

Is there enough?

The US Department of Energy is at an advanced stage of study into the platinum industry, aimed at establishing whether the availability of platinum group metals (pgms) can be sustained in the long term, Mining Weekly can today exclusively report.

Coal-line tariff talks heat up

Negotiations to finalise rail rates for new companies seeking to export coal down the rail line linking the coalfields of Mpumalanga to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) in Kwazulu-Natal are at an advanced stage.