Tokyo conference to showcase gold’s industrial advances – Mintek

Gold continues to search for its industrial potential, particularly at the nanoscale. Minuscule, nanosized gold particles – measuring three- to four-millionths of a millimetre – are selectively reactive at a nanoscale, while remaining stable...

Tokyo conference to showcase gold’s industrial advances – Mintek

Gold continues to search for its industrial potential, particularly at the nanoscale. Minuscule, nanosized gold particles – measuring three- to four-millionths of a millimetre – are selectively reactive at the nanoscale, while remaining stable...

Kell technology ignites industry-creating hopes for platinum sector

A new technology – the Kell process – is igniting hopes that South Africa will be able to create a new industrial thrust out of its unique platinum endowment. There is a snowballing conviction at high level that South Africa could and should...

New process opens way for full-spectrum platinum beneficiation

The Kell Process, which slashes electricity consumption by eliminating the power-guzzling smelting step in the processing of platinum-group metals (PGMs), also opens the way for full-spectrum platinum beneficiation, including the facilitation of...

02/03/2012 (On-The-Air)

Global pressure is being applied on the government to make South African mining revenues fully transparent; A study on the economic viability of exporting manganese through the port of Saldanha Bay has been presented to Transnet; and Science and...

South Africa mooted as platinum industry’s ‘Silicon Valley’

South Africa’s unique opportunity in platinum-related development is beckoning. There is growing conviction that South Africa could and should become the first mover in creating a kind of ‘Platinum Valley’ that emulates the great Silicon...

New think tank Mistra to probe potential benefits of fuel cell for SA

One of the key research projects that would be looked at by the newly launched Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) was the evolution of fuel cell technologies and the role that South Africa, as the largest producer of platinum...

Report on acid water presented to Ministers

The team of experts compiling a report on the acid mine drainage (AMD) situation in the Witwatersrand has completed the report, and on Thursday presented it to the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC). The Ministers discussed the findings with the...

Sonjica expects AMD report by mid-October

South Africa's Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica expects the acid mine drainage (AMD) report, being compiled by a team of experts, to be delivered on or around October 15. She stated that the InterMinisterial Committee...

Experts to compile report on extent of AMD problem

South Africa has appointed an InterMinisterial Committee (IMC) to address the acid mine drainage (AMD) issue in the Western and Central basins of the Witwatersrand, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Monday. The IMC,...

Anglo Platinum signs with JV partners to make fuel cells in SA

Platinum group metals miner Anglo Platinum, through the first investment of its Platinum Group Metals Development Fund (PGMD Fund), and US-based Altergy Systems, announced on Monday that they would partner with the Department of the Science and...

25/02/2010 (On-The-Air)

The Department of Science and Technology looking in to bringing back South Africa's space rocket launching capability; air traffic tracking system and South Africa one of the first countries in the world to introduce this new state-of-the-art...