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Integrated service provider SGS Bateman played a “pivotal role” as the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contractor for midtier gold producer Pan African Resources’...
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The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) has recognised the value of a strategic foresight framework and anticipatory governance plan to improve the management of Africa’s mineral resources....
Specialised demolition contractor Jet Demolition is enabling mining operations, through its engineering services, to efficiently demolish old and outdated infrastructure for the purpose of...
The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) has brought a more integrated perspective to the approach, construction, operation and closure of tailings storage facilities (TSFs)...
A decline in blast performance at an iron-ore mine in South Africa has led to the investigation of a new mechanism to prevent bulk emulsion breakdown, and to find innovative solutions to address...
An additional two tailings storage facilities (TSFs) of Brazilian iron-ore major Vale have been certified as stable, positively progressing from their ‘emergency level’ of classification by the...
Multidisciplinary professional firm WSP has completed a comprehensive upgrade of diversified miner South32’s manganese rail infrastructure in the Northern Cape. The project was carried out by WPS’s...
Mega mining projects face several risks; however, these risks can be mitigated with a competent and effective project management approach that addresses all project knowledge areas in a...
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Adopting smart technologies and digital innovations in a mining environment presents many benefits for day-to-day operations by making data available from the Edge with technologies such as the...
Water power is there for the taking across a broad spectrum of many of South Africa’s hard-rock underground mines. At a time of high electricity prices, the availability of cooling reservoirs at...
Leading mine blasting solutions provider BME today announced a new alignment with Protea Mining Chemicals, which provides one point of contact for two solutions through the BME brand. In this...
Noting the significant mining developments taking place in West Africa and the requirement for new mines to comply with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM), global...
Recycle like there’s no tomorrow were the urging words flashed across the large screen at the thirteenth Oppenheimer Research Conference, where long-time former diamond mining luminary Nicky...
Mining consulting engineering company DRA Global has announced its intention to delist from both the ASX and the JSE. As part of this process, it intends to undertake an off-market equal access...
Amid growing global demand for critical minerals, such as lithium, graphite, manganese and iron, Zimbabwe is increasingly becoming a focal point for mining activities, says mining consultancy...
Clients in the platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome sectors continue to hold a significant market share for opencast mining, bulk materials handling, and drilling and blasting service provider...
Virtually every mining house in South Africa is in the process of procuring green electrons, and similar advances are taking place across the African continent, from the Democratic Republic of...
Global consulting and engineering firm Wood has been selected by Bannerman Energy to deliver the detailed design phase of its flagship Etango-8 uranium project, in Namibia. Wood says it has...
The capital-raising success that emerging copper and zinc mining company Orion Minerals achieved is kindling high hopes that smaller South African shareholders will be facilitated to play a greater...
Development of an innovative new mining method for narrow tabular steep dipping orebodies has reached an advanced stage after four years of effort. The reef boring machine that has already been put...
South African mining needs what is often referred to as a one-stop shop to ensure that an applicant is not sent from one department to the other but goes to one place where the application is...
New power is needed by the Western mining industry, which is still functioning on a trailing old power business model. This was highlighted at Tuesday’s London Indaba, where a spotlight was shone...
The concern that South Africa’s Reserve Bank expressed last week on the state of this country’s public markets is seen as a welcome development by AmaranthCX director and public market promoter...
Global CEO-led mining and metals industry body the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) reported in March that it had welcomed three new association members, which “share ICMM’s vision...
Embracing the contributions of women in mining, and especially those in the mining of platinum-group metals (PGMs), can offer many benefits, reports women-centric network Women in PGMs (WiPGMs)...
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