Company Announcement: Metso to supply mining equipment to TISCO in China

Attached please find a press release on: Metso will supply mining equipment to TISCO’s iron ore processing plant in Lan county Shanxi Province China. The delivery will be completed during the third quarter of 2011. The value of the order is...

Collaborative initiative on Wonderfontein 
catchment remediation gets under way

A public involvement and participation process (PIP) has been started by the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR), together with the Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE), as part of implementing the...

System upgrade for uranium giant

Business systems and production company MineWare Consulting’s (MWCs) Centralised Production Management (CPM) system, designed to allow mines to record and analyse production processes, has been commissioned by global uranium miner Uranium One.

Wireless technologies improve mine safety

Information and communications technology companies GijimaAst’s mining division (GMSI) and Tronimex Data Technologies have partnered to develop a locally innovated Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)-based management system that is currently...

Gold company Harmony goes wireless in mine shafts

Wireless communication equipment company Communication Solutions (Comsol) is currently upgrading the communication network at mining company Harmony Gold’s 150 mine shafts and offices to wireless communication.

Acquisition for SA mining systems firm

To further strengthen its position in underground communications and automation, Becker Mining Systems has acquired Ontario-based Varis Smart Underground Communications. Becker's underground mining communications arm, Becker Electronics, provides...

Information-management systems for the mining sector

Fleet management and management information systems specialist, MinLog, have designed two new systems to meet mining operational logistics and management information system needs.

New network capacity to cope with rising satellite demand

South African companies are increasingly turning to satellite technology for Internet and network needs. For this reason, State-owned broadcast distribution and telecommunications company Sentech, has created a product to accommodate the...

Rock analysis

Local company UBM Marketing has developed a drill-hole, rock and mineral spectrum analyser, which can provide instantaneous analysis of complex rock formations known as Pro-Specto-Scam, the device uses the latest electronic colour charged couple...

AngloGold Ashanti signs deal with BEE IT group

Mining giant AngloGold Ashanti has signed a three-year (with a two-year rollover option to five years) information technology (IT) outsourcing contract with black empowered group Business Connexion, worth an estimated R100-million a year.

German-made inverters offer high performance

The power drives range of Nordac frequency inverters from Germany are voltage-source direct current-link inverters with fully-digitised microprocessor electronics which cover three-phase motor powers from 0,25 kW to 132 kW.

New blasting system for Mponeng

A partnership between Sasol Nitro and AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine has led to the development of a blasting system which is a hybrid of traditional shock-tube technology, combined with state-of-the-art electronic systems.