Company Announcement: Palabora Mining Company to increase life of mine with Johnson Controls chillers

New contract will provide copper mine with added cooling for extended operations

Iron fines project, South Africa

Iron Mineral Beneficiations Services expects to begin work on its 50 000 t/y pilot plant in September 2011.

Company Announcement: BBE Designs Underground Cooling Circuit For PMC

Attached please find a press release on: BBE Consulting has successfully completed a R3-mllion EPCM contract calling for the design of an underground cooling circuit at Rio Tinto’s Palabora Mining Company (PMC) in Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province....

Maintenance contract completed at mine

Specialist rope-access company Skyriders completed a R500 000 maintenance contract in May, which involved inspection and repairing the smoke stack at gold-miner Resolute Mining’s 80%-owned Syama openpit gold mine, near Bamako, in Mali. The...

Extension plans for Rio Tinto’s Palabora mine

Rio Tinto subsidiary and copper producer Palabora Mining Company (PMC) plans to progress with the next underground mining sequence in the Palabora mine and grow the magnetite operations at the Palabora mine through partnerships with manufacturer...

New BBBEE structure to be implemented at copper producer

Rio Tinto subsidiary and copper producer Palabora Mining Company (PMC) have received approval from Rio Tinto International to implement its new broad-based black economic-empowerment (BBBEE) structure, reports PMC company secretary Keith Mathole.

IDC, Palabora Mining partner technology minnow in pilot iron project

The steel world's search for a commercially viable way of converting fine iron-ore waste into a ferrous-scrap supplement is over, a small new South African company claims. Coming up with a claimed home-grown solution to a long-standing Holy Grail...

Palabora, Foskor to use alternative rail routes for exports

JSE-listed Palabora Mining Company and South African phosphate rock miner and fertiliser producer Foskor have secured the use of alternative rail stations and railway sidings for the export of their goods, while Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) repairs...

Russians buy into South African minnow's iron innovation

Large Russian mining and steel company OAO Severstal has bought into new South African technology that converts abundant waste fines into iron feedstock for steelmaking. The process does not require the use of expensively priced coking coal and...

Company Announcement: Brakspruit Rail Bridge incident

Attached please find a press release on: In the early hours of Monday, 20 September 2010, a loaded Transnet train derailed and destroyed a bridge on the branch rail line between Phalaborwa and Hoedspruit, in the Limpopo province of South Africa....

TFR derailment to impact on Palabora magnetite shipments

JSE-listed copper-miner Palabora Mining Company on Tuesday warned shareholders that its magnetite shipments and sales revenues would be impacted on by a rail incident. On Monday, a Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) train derailed and destroyed the...

Optimum, Eskom go to arbitration on coal supply, IDC, Palamin, IMBS mull Phalaborwa iron project, South Africa awards Shell shale gas exploration permit

Black-owned JSE-listed coal-mining company Optimum Coal is to go to arbitration over the differing interpretations of a coal supply agreement that it has with Eskom.