AngloGold proposes plan to restructure BEE deal

South Africa’s largest gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti said on Thursday it planned to restructure its black-economic empowerment (BEE) transaction, announced in 2006, which would result in an accounting cost of R120,5-million. The restructuring is...

Wits mining school expects increased number of first years to proceed to the second year

The oldest mining engineering school in the country, the School of Mining Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand reports that, although the end of year results have not been finalised, the school is expecting a better progression rate from...

New head takes over at Wits School of Mining Engineering

South Africa’s oldest mining school, the Wits School of Mining Engineering, has acquired the services of two former heads of mining schools and two former chief inspectors of mines under its teaching and research resources.

Acid mine drainage single most significant threat to SA’s environment

Environmentalists have termed acid mine drainage (AMD) the single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment and this is being driven home by the AMD problems being experienced at the East Rand operations of provisionally liquidated...

Acid mine drainage single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment

Environmentalists have termed acid mine drainage (AMD) as the single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment. In the past, these and other concerns about AMD were in effect ignored by the major stakeholders of the country’s...

Robust safety summit demands instant injury-free South African mining

Injury must be eliminated in South African mining, and it must be eliminated now, a tripartite summit on mining safety heard in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The "summit unusual", organised by Anglo American, the Department of Minerals and...

Mining Charter's women requirements may be long way off

The Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry (CSMI) reports that although not all the figures from the mining companies in South Africa have been accounted for, operators in the industry have made some progress in recruiting and employing...

Kumba mine scoops DME safety award

The Department of Minerals and Energy's Mine Health and Safety Council has named the Tshikondeni coal mine in South Africa's Limpopo province, operated by diversified metals and mining company Kumba Resources, as the Coal Mines division winner in...

Vaal Reefs tragedy commemorated

Ten years ago 104 miners plunged to their death when an underground locomotive carriage fell from the 1 700-m deep 56 level onto a cage laden with night shift miners.

Test facility demonstrates how to design supports

The only test site of its kind in the world, the Savuka stope-support testing facility was designed on a large scale to test stope support systems in deep-level mines.

Mine inspectors to scrutinise equipment suppliers

Equipment manufacturers and suppliers have a duty of care to ensure the occupational safety and health of miners, said May Hermanus, chief inspector of mines at the Department of Minerals and Energy.

AngloGold launches new safety initiative

South African gold producer AngloGold yesterday marked the launch of a new safety initiative in the company’s South Africa region with a rally at the Oppenheimer Sports Stadium, near Klerksdorp.