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...

Predictive maintenance equipment supplied to Phalaborwa mine

Predictive maintenance solutions provider Engineering Dynamics (ED) has supplied an online vibration monitoring system for the mills, drives and overland conveyors at fertiliser producer Foskor’s rock and copper division’s opencast mine, in...

Chilean project marks start of group’s new synergy

The mining contracting division of construction and engineering group Murray & Roberts (M&R), M&R Cementation South Africa and Cementation Canada have been selected as one of the preferred contractors for the shaft design packages at...

Joint venture supplies gyratory crushers to SA mines

Technology partners IMS Engineering and EarthTechnica company has recently received an order for its gyrotory crusher, from phosphate producer Foskor, at its Phalaborwa mine.

Hydraulic and compressed air drilling studies under way

Drilling company Lesedi Drilling is involved in conversion studies, which are being conducted at a gold mine in the Free Sate, to convert compressed air diamond drilling drills to electro-hydraulic drills.