Atcom project on track for completion

Diversified miner Xstrata Coal South Africa reports that its Arthur Taylor colliery opencast mine (Atcom) East project, in Mpumalanga, is well on track to achieving fully integrated production in 2011.

Bridging the gap

Civil engineering and construction company Esorfranki Civils is expecting to complete the construction of bridges at diversified miner Xstrata’s Arthur Taylor colliery opencast mine (Atcom) East upgrade project, at the end of the year.

Miscellaneous

Tenders arising from a range of sectors

Miscellaneous

Tenders arising from a range of sectors

Miscellaneous

Tenders arising from a range of sectors

Miscellaneous

Tenders arising from a range of sectors

Olifants river basin collieries must join forces to control water decant – Xstrata

Xstrata coal mines are predominantly located in the sensitive Olifants River Basin that includes the Loskop dam, requiring the company to incorporate serious water monitoring and management strategies in the area.

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...

Olifants river still a hazard to wildlife

Crocodiles are dying off in large numbers in the Olifants river, which is being polluted by various hazardous chemicals such as acid mine drainage from the mining industry, agricultural chemicals from farms and sewage from urban settlements.

Richmond dam project, South Africa

Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) hopes to build the Richmond dam to acquire the water necessary for the development of its Der Brochen and Richmond mines.

Angloplat, Limpopo community still wrangling over the planned Richmond dam

It has been two-and-a-half years since the Limpopo’s Gamawela community and mining company Anglo Platinum started their tussle over whether the Richmond dam should be built or not - and the increasingly public spat is far from over.