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Opencast Quarries News
When to use refurbished or new machinery
By: Mariaan Webb 13th May 2005 New machinery and refurbished machinery are being used in opencast mining, but whether the one is better than the other is debatable. →
Company to expand track-mounted offering
13th May 2005 Having made mining-industry history with the launch of South Africa’s first locally-manufactured primary jaw crusher track unit, bulk-materials handling and minerals processing specialist Osborn is now manufacturing its first secondary gyrasphere crusher track mounted unit. →
Cost-reduction programme makes equipment maintenance easy
By: Mariaan Webb 13th May 2005 Tacfin, a subsidiary of the openpit mine engineering and project management company Tacmin, is an asset finance and support company that comprises former senior executives from manufacturing, engineering, geology, mining, construction, and banking houses. →
Opencast mining ends after nine years
By: Mariaan Webb 13th May 2005 Rustenburg Platinum Mines’ Amandelbult Section, with its core business of underground mining, using conventional and trackless mining methods, is the flagship of Anglo Platinum. →
Explosives company gears up for growth in coal sector
13th May 2005 With the increased demand for coal anticipated for both the South African domestic and export markets, African Explosives Limited (AEL) is at an advanced stage of upgrading its facilities in the Witbank area in the heart of the South African coalfields. →
Polymers assist in transporting hot and heavy-duty materials
13th May 2005 Industrial polymer bed liners have proved their efficiency and durability when it comes to transporting heavy-duty, abrasive materials, such as Asphalt, coal, gravel, sand, limestone and even quarry materials. →
Processing technology supports opencast mining industry
13th May 2005 Minerals and materials processing specialist IMS Engineering has introduced several industry-leading crushing and sorting solutions into the Southern African opencast mining environment, including primary impact crushers, primary gyratory crushers, jaw crushers and sorting technology. →
Excavators hard at work at open pit platinum-mine
13th May 2005 Four Liebherr R984C Litronic-crawler excavators move 400 000 m3 of the overburden, selected material and ore body from Zimplat’s Ngezi platinum-mine in south-western Zimbabwe, every month, working 20 hours a day, seven days a week. →
New loaders hit SA market
13th May 2005 The new generation Galeo-series range of Komatsu small and medium wheel loaders, comprising a total of eight models, has recently been introduced into the local market by Komatsu Southern Africa. →
New horizons for Wonderstone
By: andrew lanham 3rd December 2004 Ottosdal is a small town in the North West province that Mining Weekly passes through on the way to places such as Black Mountain or Beeshoek, or the mines of Namibia. →
Overall industry outlook is positive . . .
By: Liezel Hill 24th September 2004 After more than four years of dismal sector commentary from the Aggregate and Sand Producers Association of South Africa (Aspasa), director Nico Pienaar tells Mining Weekly that the industry is finally experiencing an upturn. →
. . . but borrow-pits remain a problem
By: Liezel Hill 24th September 2004 The stone-crushing industry has experienced a remarkably buoyant 2004, reports Institute of Quarrying Southern Africa (IQSA) director Frans Van Wyk, as, with the exception of the northern Kwazulu-Natal market, an upswing has been experienced throughout the country. →
Quarry orders R1m worth of equipment
By: Liezel Hill 24th September 2004 Johannesburg-based equipment suppliers IMS Engineering recently supplied some R1-million worth of crushing and screening equipment to Scirocco Enterprises, operating at a quarry in Zambia. →
Botswana, Zambia deals complete
By: Liezel Hill 24th September 2004 International supplier of process plants, mining and mineral processing equipment and turnkey mining projects, Manhattan Corporation is also supplying crushing equipment to the South and Southern African quarrying industries. →
Blast data management system developed
By: Liezel Hill 24th September 2004 Explosives company Bulk Mining Explosives reports that it has added a further technological supplement to complement its successful BlastMap blast planning and management software. →
BEE quarry deal finalised
24th September 2004 Prima Quarries (Pty) Ltd and Mega Oils have signed a unique black economic empowerment (BEE) deal that is a breakthrough for the quarrying industry in the Western Cape, and places the Prima Quarries group well ahead of the requirements of the Mining Charter. →
Polymers assist in transporting hot and heavy-duty materials
24th September 2004 Industrial polymer bed liners have proven their efficiency and durability when it comes to transporting heavy-duty, abrasive materials, such as asphalt, coal, gravel, sand, limestone and even quarry materials. →
Air conditioning units improve operator efficiency
24th September 2004 The new health and safety regulations are having a positive effect on opencast mining and earthmoving productivity. →
Loader range is set to grow
24th September 2004 Due to global customer demand, Bell Equipment Company will grow its wheeled loader range during the course of the next two years. →
Wire producer continues to supply quarrying hubs
By: Liezel Hill 24th September 2004 Leader in diamond cutting technology Wendt Longyear is wholly owned by Boart Longyear, part of Anglo American. →
Boom 6 months for equipment supplier
By: Liezel Hill 24th September 2004 The current boom in the South African quarrying industry is welcomed by mobile crushing, screening and washing solutions business Pilot Crushtec, which has sold more sand-washing plants in the last six months that the previous three years, having supplied eight complete turnkey plants to quarries... →
Cape quarry firm in BEE move
27th August 2004 Western Cape quarry firm Prima Quarries has concluded a black economic empowerment (BEE) deal with and Mega Oils, positioning Prima to comply with the requirements of the Mining Charter. →
Mupane preparation starts
By: andrea marais 14th May 2004 Consulting firm Basil Read Botswana has been awarded the openpit mining contract for the Mupane gold project, east of Francistown, in Botswana, by Australian-listed Gallery Gold. →
Giant crusher relocation completed at Jwaneng
14th May 2004 A 480 t Kawasaki primary gyratory crusher installed at Debswana Diamond Company’s Jwaneng mine in Botswana has been success- fully removed and reinstalled following refurbishment by IMS Engineering. →
Health and safety report findings explained
By: andrea marais 14th May 2004 One of Aspasa’s committees, →
New software will go live by July
By: andrea marais 14th May 2004 The latest openpit planning software is being used at the Konkola Copper Mines’ Nchanga mine, in Zambia. →
End of an era at PPC Loerie
14th May 2004 While PPC awaits the closure certificate from the Department of Minerals and Energy for the closure of its Loerie quarry in the Eastern Cape, a landmark and historic establishment will be lost to the Port Elizabeth community forever. →
ADTs gain ground in local opencast market
14th May 2004 Accelerated purchasing of the Komatsu articulated dump trucks (ADT’s) is proof of the local market’s acceptance. →
Software released for opencast mining
By: andrea marais 14th May 2004 Software solution Mine2-4D has been adapted and released for opencast mining. →
Diamond-miner praises manufacturer
14th May 2004 The R984C Litronic hydraulic excavator from Liebherr has been found to be the most economical machine for stripping overburden at the Van Zyl Broers diamond mine near Barkly West in the Nothern Cape. →
Alliances remain important
By: andrea marais 14th May 2004 There is a strong move among the global mining groups to establish alliances, partnerships and working relationships with their suppliers, says the mining managing director for Barloworld Equipment, the Southern African Caterpillar dealer, Chris Gibb. “This is driven by a desire to leverage... →
Modelling software promoted for opencast mines
By: andrea marais 14th May 2004 n order to assist in risk assessment, audit company KPMG embraces a mining business model, which is a method used to audit mining clients. →
Colliery will become underground operation
By: andrea marais 14th May 2004 Underground operations at New Clydesdale colliery (NCC), in Mpumalanga, started in the Vaalkranz South reserve area in November last year. →
Firm launches mobile crusher innovation
By: nkolola halwindi 28th November 2003 Leading designer and manufacturer of bulk materials handling and minerals processing plant and equipment Osborn Engineered Products has launched what is reportedly South Africa’s first locally-manufactured primary jaw-crusher track unit. →
Crunch time
By: zeena isaacs 31st October 2003 The quarry industry is a tough industry to be involved in, says Aggregate and Sand Producers Association of South Africa director Nico Pienaar. →
Demand for aggregate stagnant since 1994 – Institute
By: zeena isaacs 31st October 2003 According to statistics, the volumes of aggregate required locally have remained the same since 1994, with the number being 23-million tons to 24-million tons a year, which is below the average per capita tons required in developed countries, chairperson of the Institute of Quarrying Johan... →
From waste to profit – turning rock into sand
By: zeena isaacs 31st October 2003 South African crushing and screening equipment supplier IMS Engineering highlights the importance for quarries to produce sand from aggregate sizes of which there is an overabundance, since natural sand is declared a nonrenewable resource. →
MW Profile Aug 15 - Lyttelton Dolomite, South Africa
15th August 2003 Name: Lyttelton dolomite-mine. →
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