Company Announcement: Sandpaper Marine Rock Phosphate Project Positive Feasibility Study Results And Resource Upgrade

Minemakers Limited is pleased to announce the results of the Feasibility Study on the Sandpiper marine phosphate project.

Transnet expects to rail 70Mt of coal to Richards Bay in 2011

South African State-owned rail transport enterprise Transnet expects to transport 70-million tons of export coal to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal in KwaZulu-Natal, says Transnet GM Divyesh Kalan. Kalan, who addressed the McCloskey coal...

Results of study into Namibian phosphate project to be ready by month-end

Australian mining company Minemakers reported that its scoping study to develop a marine phosphate mining operation offshore from Namibia, on Africa’s west coast, is expected to be complete by the end of September.

Modular plant expert brings its talents ashore

Cape Town-based design, engineering and project management firm PBA Projects (PBAP) is taking its experience with modular plants in the marine diamond-mining industry and bringing it ashore.

Miners eye sea as land resources diminish

The diminishing nature of some land-based mineral resources (the resource determines where you mine and whether you mine – not a nongovernmental organisation focus which is, in fact, a welcome interest) has increased the importance of marine...

Miners eye sea as land resources diminish

The diminishing nature of some land-based mineral resources, [the resource determines where you mine and whether you mine - not an NGO focus which is in fact a welcome interest] has increased the importance of marine mining and has reignited the...

09/10/2009 (On-The-Air)

A massive new gold mine is flickering to life within a half an hour's drive from the centre of Joburg; the sea-bed being the new exploration target of South Africa's biggest gold-mining company; something that we discussed recently on the...

07/08/2009 (On-The-Air)

In this broadcast: South Africa’s sugar farmers are weighing up the benefits of the local production of car fuel from sugar cane; in less than 12 months, people will be able to get from OR Tambo Airport to Sandton in 15 minutes on the Gautrain;...

Namibian uranium project achieves first processed ore at pilot plant

At the end of March 2009, the first production of sodium diuranate (SDU) was achieved at global energy group Areva’s Namibian Trekkopje uranium mine’s minipilot plant, proving the heap-leaching treatment process a success. This is the first...

Australian junior prepares to mine phosphates off Namibia's ocean floor

A growing world population eating better food is opening up mining opportunities in agricultural input materials. The mining industry has seen the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, report that it expects to invest “billions upon...

Australian junior prepares to mine phosphates off Namibia's ocean floor

A growing world population eating better food is opening up mining opportunities in agriculture input materials. The mining industry has seen the world’s biggest mining company BHP Billiton report that it expects to invests “billions upon...

Australia’s Union Resources buys Namibian phosphate explorer

Australia-based Union Resources on Friday announced it had acquired Sea Phosphates, a company from Nambia, which held two prospecting licences for phosphates and precious stones off the Namibian coast. Subsequent to certain conditions being met,...