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Technology improves gold recovery
By: System Author 3rd March 2000 Mining in Africa →
Threat to SA diamond industry
By: System Author 3rd March 2000 Mining in Africa →
Mining projects in Africa expected to increase
By: System Author 3rd March 2000 Mining in Africa →
Investment in Africa rising
By: System Author 3rd March 2000 Mining in Africa →
Mali benefits from Morila development
By: System Author 3rd March 2000 Mining in Africa →
Progress accelerates at Corridor Sands
By: System Author 3rd March 2000 Mining in Africa →
Technology targets remote areas
By: System Author 19th November 1999 Mining in Africa →
Alliances sought with ‘juniors’
By: System Author 19th November 1999 Mining in Africa →
Chambishi is well on track
By: System Author 19th November 1999 Mining in Africa →
IT for mining firms
By: System Author 19th November 1999 Mining in Africa →
Project division ventures into Africa, the last frontier
By: System Author 19th November 1999 Mining in Africa →
Study under way
By: System Author 19th November 1999 Mining in Africa →
Most exciting gem find in 100 years
By: System Author 23rd July 1999 Johannesburg gemstone specialist African Gem Resources (Afgem) has managed to corner the market on Tanzanite, or “the most exciting gem find in a hundred years”, as Tiffany & Company vice-president Henry Platt puts it. To date, the only commercially-viable source of Tanzanite was at... →
Joint ventures open Africa up
By: System Author 23rd July 1999 Following the successful completion of a big electrical and instrumentation contract at KCCL’s Kasese cobalt plant in Kasese, Uganda, B&W Electrical, of Alberton, Gauteng, has been awarded a contract at a gold-mine in northern Tanzania. This contract calls for B&W, reportedly South... →
Project boosts Mali’s GDP
By: System Author 23rd July 1999 The activities and projects of exploration and mining specialist Randgold Resources, of Johannesburg, the London-listed subsidiary of Randgold & Exploration, is contributing to over 5% of Mali’s gross domestic product at present, and once production begins at its Morila project, the company... →
Turmoil fails to tarnish DRC
By: System Author 23rd July 1999 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in turmoil since the eastern rebellion in 1996 which ousted the then dictator Mobutu and led to a new government in 1997. Though still in dispute with its neighbours, the country has managed to develop its natural resources in the south-eastern region,... →
Pointing the way forward
By: System Author 23rd July 1999 Quantification of risk is the way forward for South Africa’s mining industry, challenged as it is by spiralling costs, ebbing margins, and global competition. So says Dr Oskar Steffen, co-founder of SRK Consulting, an international group of consulting engineers and scientists who provide... →
Keeping in touch with Uganda
By: System Author 23rd July 1999 Electronics specialist Protea Electronics, of Johannesburg, has played an important role in a cobalt project in western Uganda by enabling the on-site team to stay in contact with the head office in Johannesburg. When Iain Bennett of Gordon Bennett Corrosion Engineering heard his company had won... →
Growth prospects in Zimbabwe and Ghana
By: System Author 23rd July 1999 Although Zimbabwe’s mining industry is not as buoyant as it could be, and the large Hartley platinum-mine has been closed, there are still opportunities for growth. It is believed that several new platinum-mines may be opened in the near future, and that a new development may begin at the... →
$300m zinc development
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Development of the US$300-million Skorpion zinc project near Oranjemund in Namibia is set to continue later this year by Reunion Mining once finances for the project are secured, reports project manager Norman Green in an exclusive interview. The zinc-oxide reserve, which was discovered back in... →
Morila project shines
By: System Author 5th March 1999 With development of its US$92-million Morila project in Mali on track, Randgold Resources is starting to shine as one of the more significant gold producers in Africa, reveals MD Dr Mark Bristow in an exclusive interview with Mining Weekly. Said to be the highest-quality gold discovery in Africa... →
African gold exploration
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Despite political upheaval and social and economic instability in many African countries, international companies are still willing to take the risk to explore mining opportunities on the continent. Following the establishment of a regional office in South Africa in 1997, UK exploration company... →
Conveyors for Africa
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Two contracts, worth over R3-million for low-pressure air-supported belt conveyors or aeroconveyors to De Beers’ Orapa and Jwaneng mines in Botswana are being commissioned by Gauteng supplier Aeroconveyors, reports manager Lee Thain. The company is responsible for the design, manufacture,... →
Cobalt extraction aided
By: System Author 5th March 1999 A contract worth millions of rands for the supply and installation of a Plantscape control system by Honeywell South Africa to Kasese Cobalt in Western Uganda is reaching completion with the final phases of commissioning taking place last month, reveals sales tendering and support manager Zane... →
Zambian reclamation plan
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Gauteng mineral process plant design engineer Dowding Reynard and Associates (DRA) has, for the first time, extended its activities into cobalt reclamation in a multimillion-rand partnership venture with Kvaerner Metals. The company is completing a study which will proffer a strategy for Avmin to... →
New bauxite sampler
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Gauteng supplier Multotec Process Equipment has secured an order worth more than R3,5-million against strict competition for the supply of a new multistage sampling station for Compagnie des Bauxite de Guinea (CBG) in West Africa, Mining Weekly can today report. The Guinean bauxite producer is... →
Dual-purpose pressure hose
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Africa has traditionally used imported pulp and slurry hoses with clamp-on flanges but now industrial and mining rubber supplier Transvaal Rubber is producing dual-purpose pulp and slurry pressure hoses for use with these flanges that compete effectively in terms of quality, price and delivery... →
Outsourcing increases
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Mining houses in Africa are turning to outsourcing for professional, specialised skills and this will increase dramatically in the near future to include ‘bread-and-butter’ work, such as stoping and development, reveals Cementation Mining MD Alastair Douglas. “Outsourcing is the... →
$110m cobalt project
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Despite delays due to the unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, B&W Electrical is on schedule to complete its electrical contract for the process plant portion of the US$110-million Kasese cobalt project in Uganda, reports director John Barrow. To overcome delays the programme was... →
Surge in mine contracts
By: System Author 5th March 1999 South African expertise in the design and manufacture of electrical distribution and control equipment continues to make its mark in mining development projects in sub-Saharan Africa, with Reyrolle completing contracts worth more than R9-million in Ghana, Tanzania and Botswana. These contracts... →
Small-scale gold recovery plants offered
By: System Author 5th March 1999 Expansion of Bateman Process Equipment’s capital sales activities into central and northern Africa has highlighted the need for an uncomplicated, cost-effective method of gold recovery from alluvial claims for small-scale operators, reveals sales manager Simon Tuma-Waku. Realising that its... →
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