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Drawing design office is where it all happens
26th June 2009 Project house DRA Mineral Projects’ reputation for completing projects on time and within budget has been a self-imposed target since its inception. However, this would not be attainable without the support of its design drawing office, considered the company’s most dynamic and busiest environment. →
Plant operations need to be cost and energy efficient
By: Beth Shirley 26th June 2009 While significant recovery of mineral material is of utmost importance in plant processing, it is equally important to ensure that high plant availabilities are achieved, while operating costs, including power consumption are reduced, says projects house DRA Mineral Projects director of process... →
DRA completes remote diamond exploration project
By: Carla Thomaz 26th June 2009 A recently completed diamond exploration project in one of the most remote locations in the world, Greenland, required that project house DRA’s entire plant be stripped down to parts weighing no more than 800 kg. →
China – DRA’s growth market
By: Carla Thomaz 26th June 2009 With its dominance in the world coal market, China has become a significant market for project house DRA’s advanced coal dressing technology. →
Success in phase 1 secures expansion project 
By: Kelly Farthing 26th June 2009 Project house DRA has been appointed managing contractor for a feasibility study on the Khumani iron-ore mine phase-two expansion project owing to its success as the managing contractor and the main engineering, procurement, construction management (EPCM) contractor for the first phase of the... →
Project house implements staff retention strategy
By: Jacqueline Holman 26th June 2009 Project house DRA has implemented a strategy to retain staff during the economic downturn, says DRA director of project support services Rodney Drew. →
Winder system engineers involved in large platinum shaft project
By: Jacqueline Holman 26th June 2009 Mine winder system engineering company DRA Technical Services (DRATS) is involved in platinum producer Impala Platinum’s Shaft 17 project, which is one of the largest projects currently taking place in the platinum industry, says DRATS MD Graham du Plessis. →
Minerals operations company ramps up new projects
By: Jacqueline Holman 26th June 2009 Minerals operations executive company Minopex is currently ramping up three new projects, says Minopex MD Paul Thomson. →
Engineering firm congratulates project house on 25 years
26th June 2009 Diversified engineering firm Atlas Copco Compressor Technique (CT) management and staff extends congratulations to DRA on celebrating 25 years of serving the South African market with distinction. →
Bearing company supplies order to new mine
26th June 2009 Bearings manufacturer Bearings International (BI) and manufacturer of conveyor pulleys, forging, plate rolling Bosworth, divisions of bearings and power transmission company Hudaco Trading, have successfully fulfilled a R25-million order placed by project house DRA for the supply of pulley... →
Witbank mine to get new lease of life
26th June 2009 A global demand for coal has prompted the optimisation of the diversified miner BHP-Billiton’s Douglas mine, which works the Douglas/Middelburg reef, 25 km east of Witbank. →
Company supplies electric motors for projects
26th June 2009 Project house DRA has placed numerous orders on behalf of its clients for medium-voltage motors with electric motors supplier Alstom Electrical Machines’ Large Motors division. →
Project house is preserving cash to bridge hard times ahead
By: Beth Shirley 26th June 2009 Project house DRA Mineral Projects Financial Director Stefan Venter says that although the company is strong financially, it is preserving capital, especially in the current economic downturn. →
Ceded Vhumbanani projects set for success
By: Beth Shirley 26th June 2009 Project house Vhumbanani’s ceded platinum concentrator projects are set for success, says project house DRA Mineral Projects projects sponsor Roger Paton. →
Electrical, control and instrumentation
26th June 2009 Project house DRA’s multidisciplinary electrical, instrumentation and control (E,I&C) department has the ability to engineer high voltage, medium voltage and low voltage instrumentation and control systems to the company’s control systems software. →
DRA expands international footprint
By: Carla Thomaz 26th June 2009 The increasing demand for electricity and the potential for mineral beneficiation projects spanning various mineral types made India a logical destination for DRA to develop and expand it’s international footprint. →
Newly formed company to
complete Voskhod chromite project
By: Carla Thomaz 26th June 2009 Project house DRA Kazakhstan (KZ), a subsidiary of DRA Eurasia, has been formed to complete the Voskhod chromite project, in Aktoby, Kazakhstan. →
Gearless mill drives
26th June 2009 Gearless mill drives (GMDs) have been installed on platinum-miner Anglo Platinum’s Potgietersrust Platinum (PPRust) 600 000 t/m concentrator. →
Company trains Indian engineers for international branch
By: Jacqueline Holman 26th June 2009 Project house DRA is currently training seven Indian engineers in South Africa for its Indian branch, DRA India, says DRA director of project support services Rodney Drew. →
Infrastructure and civil engineering
26th June 2009 Project House DRA Mineral Projects has the ability to offer the full spectrum of civil engineering services from the design of bulk earthworks and services, roads and rail, ports and associated infrastructure, industrial civil and structural design, as well as the construction management of the... →
Efforts redoubled for cost effective standard modular plants for mining industry
26th June 2009 Process engineers DRA Mineral Projects is redoubling its efforts to design and build cost effective standard modular plants for the coal, base metals and diamond mining industry. →
Back to basics for Cape Town branch
By: Carla Thomaz 26th June 2009 The principle focus of the new office is on selling plants to the mining industry based on standardised plant modules. DRA has built a number of modular dense media separation (DMS) plants in the past, which have been custom built for specific projects in the coal and diamond-mining industry. →
Another watershed year for Pacific branch
By: Carla Thomaz 26th June 2009 Despite global economic conditions, project house DRA’s Pacific branch achieved another successful project year in 2008. →
Crusher commissioned in record time
26th June 2009 Botswana’s largest primary crusher has been commissioned in record time, reports comminution specialist company IMS Engineering. The Kawasaki EarthTechnica primary gyratory crusher was installed as part of Norilsk Nickel’s 12-million tons a year dense medium separation (DMS) Phase 2 plant... →
Coal preparation
By: Beth Shirley 26th June 2009 South Africa is one of the world’s leading nations in the mining, preparation and use of coal for its internal energy needs and the export market, says project house DRA Mineral Projects process engineering consultant Mark Cresswell. →
Engineering firm installs flotation cells at South African platinum mine
By: Jonathan Faurie 26th June 2009 Diversified engineering company Bateman Engineering has recently placed its BQR Flotation Cell technology at the Blue Ridge platinum and Smokey Hills platinum projects in South Africa. →
CRG brokers machinery hire transaction
By: Loni Prinsloo 19th June 2009 As part of Central Rand Gold’s (CRGs) aim to fulfil its Mining Rights responsibilities, the junior gold-miner negotiated a community joint venture agreement between Qualiprod and Fleurhof Gold Mining Supplies and Services. →
Investment company ups the anti to secure Zambian copper project
By: Jonathan Faurie 22nd May 2009 African focused mining investment company Zambian Copper Investments (ZCI) has increased its initial offering for fellow mining company African Copper's mining assets. →
Contract mining company spending above national average on training
By: Kelly Farthing 22nd May 2009 Mining, engineering and construction contracting company Murray & Roberts (M&R) Cementation remains committed to the development and training of its base of over 11 000 employees despite the economic downturn. →
Mining services company striving to support mineworkers’ interests
By: Kelly Farthing 22nd May 2009 Outsourced service provider to the mining industry, JIC Mining Services together with liquidators SBT Trust, are invloved in the preservation of some 4 000 permanent and contractor mineworkers’ jobs, in the recent provisional liquidation of Pamodzi Gold’s Orkney mine, in Free State province. JIC... →
The benefits of outsourcing equipment
By: Kelly Farthing 22nd May 2009 Industrial plant rental company Rand-Air has found that business has been affected to a lesser extent by the economic downturn, as many clients are turning to the outsourcing of equipment to minimise expenses and maintain production. →
New asset management software JV eyeing African markets
By: Loni Prinsloo 22nd May 2009 Provider and developer of asset management software (AMT) for mining and other asset intensive industries, iSolutions of Australia has stepped into a joint venture (JV) agreement with South African-based AccTech Systems to form a new company iSolutions Africa. →
Economic squeeze brings about shift in mining industry’s supply chains
By: Loni Prinsloo 15th May 2009 A national research study of the mining industry’s supply chains, supplychainforesight, has identified a serious strategic realignment in the industry, brought on by the pressure of the global economic meltdown. →
Opencast mining contractor confident about 2009
By: Darren Parker 8th May 2009 Opencast mining contractor and capital equipment leaser MCC, a subsidiary of JSE-listed Eqstra, is experiencing a steady, yet relatively quiet period, but is expecting an upswing in the third and fourth quarter this year, owing to a spate of new coal projects in the country. →
TWP boosts ’09 headline earnings 23%
By: Esmarie Iannucci 4th May 2009 JSE-listed project house TWP Holdings on Monday reported a 23% increase in headline earnings for the year ended February 2009, to R119-million. Headline earnings a share rose to 102,23 c a share, compared with the 93,82c a share recorded for 2008. While the majority of the company’s underlying... →
New fleet arrives at Castle Gold's El Castillo mine
By: Liezel Hill 20th April 2009 Portions of a new equipment fleet are on site and starting operations at the El Castillo mine, in Mexico, and owner Castle Gold expects the new equipment to boost the total monthly mine production of waste and ore material to 600 000 t effective immediately, the firm said. This rate represents a... →
Bounty Mining to provide mining services at Chain Valley mine
By: Esmarie Iannucci 13th February 2009 ASX-listed Bounty Mining, through its subsidiary InCoal, has entered into an agreement with a Peabody subsidiary, and the majority owner and operator of the Chain Valley coal mine, near Newcastle, to provide mining services at the mine. The services would supplement Chain Valley’s operations by... →
Lack of resource funding moves company closer to junior miner status
By: Carla Thomaz 28th November 2008 TWP Finance working towards listing as junior mining company →
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