Optimum’s water reclamation project using world-first HiPRO process

The Optimum Water Reclamation Project is only the second plant of its kind in South Africa and is leading the way internationally in mine water treatment, says Engineering and environmental consultants Golder Associates Africa.

Largest electronic blast at Optimum Colliery

Mining services company AEL Mining Services has completed a successful trial blast using the DigitShot Plus electronic initiating system at coal miner Optimum Colliery, which is based about 40 km east of Middelburg, in Mpumalanga province.

Water ambitions for infrastructure development company

With water management becoming a national strategic issue, infrastructure development company the Aveng Group, through water treatment subsidiary company Keyplan, is implementing solutions to help mitigate this impending crisis, while steadily...

Company Announcement: Mining Group Takes Significant Business Step With Purchase Of Optimum Colliery

Attached please find a press release on: Black-owned coal mining and exploration group Optimum Coal Holdings has successfully concluded an agreement with BHP Billiton Energy Coal SA (BECSA) to acquire Optimum Colliery and associated assets from...

Optimum Coal plans listing as it concludes agreement to buy BHP's colliery

Black-owned coal mining and exploration group Optimum Coal Holdings said on Wednesday that it had concluded an agreement to acquire the Optimum Colliery and associated assets from BHP Billiton Energy Coal SA (Becsa). The only outstanding...

Company Announcement: Coal Miners sign wage agreement for 2007

Attached please find a press release on: Coal mining companies (Anglo Coal, Xstrata, Eyesizwe, Optimum Colliery and Delmas Coal) today signed the 2007/2009 wage agreement at the Chamber of Mines’ offices in Johannesburg with three trade...

NUM mulls coal sector wage offer, smaller union to strike from Sunday

Employers belonging to trade union Solidarity would down tools at South Africa's largest coal mines from midnight on Sunday, the union said on Tuesday.

Company Announcement: The National Union of Mineworkers to Recommend Offers Tabled by Collieries

The coal mining companies represented by the Chamber of Mines today presented the trade unions representing coal mining workers with revised wage increment offers ranging from between 7.5% and 8.5% for the highest category workers to 10% for the...

BHP to sell Optimum mine to group led by former Ingwe COO Monkoe

BHP Billiton Energy Coal SA, formerly Ingwe Collieries, plans sell its Optimum mine to a black economic empowerment consortium led by former COO Eliphus Monkoe, who quit the company in November after 19 months. BHP Billiton Energy Coal SA said in...