Inaugural music festival to fuel economic boost of historical mining town

The recently announced Tribe One: Dinokeng festival, a public–private partnership, is set to create substantial economic-, social- and cultural-development opportunities in the historic mining town of Cullinan, in the Dinokeng region of northern...

Company tendering for Phase 2 of Moatize project

Open cast mining and underground solutions, and materials handling equipment supplier Tenova Takraf, is tendering and negotiating for a contract to supply materials handling machinery and services to a major coal project in Mozambique. Tenova...

Vale reveals progress in Moatize expansion and Nacala corridor development

Brazilian major mining group Vale is slowing down the development of Phase 2 of its Moatize mining project in Tete province in Mozambique. This is to ensure that Phase 2 comes into operation in conjunction with the commissioning of the company’s...

Company Announcement: Mintek conducts Ozone research

Attached please find a press release on: With a history extending as far back as 1934, Mintek has become a leading provider of minerals processing and metallurgical engineering products and services to industries world-wide. Mintek is committed to...

On-The-Air (10/10/2008)

In this broadcast: Africa is now where China was in the 1970s – ready for major growth, says the new head of the giant Anglo American Corporation; Competition authorities the world-over are baring their teeth, with the European ruling against...

Mining offers hope to 'break through barriers of poverty' in Africa, says Australian High Commissioner

Mining is the most important ‘sunrise’ industry in Africa at the moment, says the Australian High Commissioner to Africa Philip Green. Green, who addressed the Africa Downunder mining conference in Perth last week, says mining “offers as...

Ministry to showcase services for industry

The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) will once again have a presence at this year’s Electra Mining event.

SADC experiences mining boom

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) reports that Tanzania has recorded an increase in its mining activities, especially gold mining, over the last five years, owing mainly to the revision of its mining legislation. SADC secretariat...

Botswana enters new era as diamond beneficator and trader

A "new diamond dream" is unfolding in Botswana. Debswana chairperson Dr Akolang Tombale and many members of government have been focused on "this new dream", said De Beers MD Gareth Penny in his speech to ululating guests at last week's...

Botswana progressing from diamond-miner to beneficiator, trader

A "new diamond dream" is unfolding in Botswana. Debswana chairperson Dr Akolang Tombale and many members of government have been focused on "this new dream", said De Beers MD Gareth Penny in his speech to ululating guests at last week's...

Ensure that gold's not resource curse, pleads AngloGold Ashanti's Godsell

African gold company AngloGold Ashanti wanted to demonstrate to the governments of the six African countries in which it operated that gold was a resource blessing and not a resource curse, said CEO Bobby Godsell.

Poor infrastructure is the 'single biggest disincentive to Africa's economic growth'

A new international partnership should be formed to upgrade the physical infrastructure of the African continent, AngloGold Ashanti CEO Bobby Godsell said last week.