Capital equipment market remains strong − Caterpillar

Caterpillar, which bought mining equipment manufacturer Bucyrus last year, expects the global capital equipment market to remain strong, with further growth expected in the long term, outgoing GM for Southern Africa Fernando Armas told Mining...

Company achieves significant safety milestones

Mining, engineering and project management company Read, Swatman & Voigt (RSV) has achieved two safety milestones this year.

Company Announcement: 2010/11 Exploration Drilling Campaign re-commences on Niger Licenses

Attached please find a press release on: URU Metals Limited (AIM: URU), the metals exploration and development company with uranium interests in Niger and South America, and nickel interests in Southern Africa, announces the re- commencement of...

Joy, P&H integrate into single mining-equipment business

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The Southern African divisions of Joy Global, mining equipment manufacturer, Joy Mining Machinery (Africa) and P&H MinePro Services (Africa), which have been separately run businesses within the same stable,...

Mine nationalisaiton unlikely under Zuma, Control Risks argues

Political risk consultancy Control Risks does not view mine nationalisaiton in South Africa as a likely short- to medium-term threat, despite recent African National Congress (ANC) Youth League assertions that President Jacob Zuma had shown a...

Mining industry could lead drive to reduce electricity demand – Wits professor

South Africa’s oldest mining school, the School of Mining Engineering, at the University of Witwatersrand, reports that the South African mining industry, one of the major sector users of electricity, could also be the leader in reducing demand...

Company Announcement: 2010 Exploration Drilling Campaign commences on Niger Licenses

Attached please find a press release on: Niger Uranium Limited (AIM: URU), the metals exploration and development company with uranium interests in Niger, Namibia and South America, and nickel interests in Southern Africa, announces the...

Solutions for all tyre requirements

One of the exhibitors at this year’s Electra Mining Africa 2010 event to be held in Johannesburg is Tubestone, which is a large independent importer of mining tyres, agricultural tyres, industrial tyres, forestry tyres, passenger tyres, forklift...

Mine nationalisation debate about internal ANC tussles, not policy

Mine nationalisation in South Africa was not an imminent policy threat, nor even a fully fledged policy consideration. But the debate could be important in helping to shape the future leadership dynamics within the governing African National...

Compressor-primed pumps seen as playing major role in mine dewatering

International solution provider, manufacturer and supplier of auto-primed pumps, Sykes Group, of Australia, established a presence in South Africa to market its compressor and vacuum-primed pumps throughout Southern Africa, mainly for use in the...

Kiwara expects start-up of Zambia copper mine in 2015, clinches IFC cash injection

Mining junior Kiwara Resources is targeting 2015 as a possible date for first production from its Kawa-nga copper project, in Zambia.

IFC to invest up to $15m in Kiwara for exploration in Zambia

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made an initial $6-million equity investment into Zambia-focused mineral explorer Kiwara to assist in the feasibility studies of its copper and nickel sulphite targets. The transaction would involve...