Impala No 17 Shaft project, South Africa

Sinking at the 17 Shaft complex remains on target.

Impala No 20 Shaft project, South Africa

Impala No 20 Shaft has started production.

South Deep gold mine expansion, South Africa

Three significant milestones in support of the build-up to a production run-rate of 700 000 oz/y by the end of 2015 were reached in the quarter ended December 31, 2012.

Bakubung platinum-group metals project, South Africa

JSE-listed Wesizwe Platinum’s new COO Paul Smith has said that he has confidence in the viability of the company’s flagship Bakubung platinum project.

Bakubung platinum-group metals project, South Africa

The China Development Bank has approved a $650-million loan for the development of the Bakubung platinum mine project.

Company to exhibit at Mining Indaba

Engineering, procurement and construction management company TWP will use the opportunity to exhibit at this year’s yearly Investing in African Mining Indaba, in Cape Town, to communicate its potential acquisition by global project delivery...

Tier 1 EPCM service provider discusses role beyond Amplats projects

Despite Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) operating in a challenging climate, owing to weak platinum demand and wage disputes this year, there has been sustained engagement between Amplats and engineering project house TWP, says TWP CEO Digby...

Acquisition by WorleyParsons to aid TWP’s globalisation strategy

The acquisition of project house TWP Holdings by global project delivery company WorleyParsons will assist TWP in effectively achieving its strategic intent to globalise and diversify the business geographically and within different markets, TWP...

Diminishing mining research capacity spurs launch of Wits-based bulk solids laboratory

An independent bulk-solids testing facility – the first of its kind in Africa – has been launched at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) under a formal collaboration between the university’s Centre for Mechanised Mining Systems (CMMS)...

Marikana mirrors SA’s ills, Amplats cuts more capex, mining funds rural schools

Economic enfranchisement’s lagging of political enfranchisement may have sparked Marikana, a conference on the tragedy at the Rustenburg platinum mine has heard. Read on page 14 of this edition of Mining Weekly of the contention that South...

Basil Read sells TWP to WorleyParsons for R900m

South African construction and engineering company Basil Read on Tuesday announced it would sell TWP Holdings to WorleyParsons for R900-million in cash – a move which CEO Marius Heyns said would allow the group to concentrate on its core...

Construction of life-of-mine workshop at Sishen mine begins

TWP Projects, part of the Basil Read group, has started construction on the life-of-mine (LM) workshop at Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen Mine, which is located in the Northern Cape province.