Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.
This week:
Bushveld Minerals moves fast to enter the buzzing vanadium market.
The new model of holiday-working labour puts RBPlat on a productivity high.
And, Sibanye Gold begins an intensive search for appropriate mining technology.
The vanadium market is set to expand rapidly, says London-Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals, which is moving quickly to bring its low-cost high-margin integrated vanadium mining and processing plant into production on the northern limb of South Africa’s mineral-rich Bushveld Complex, in Limpopo.
Bushveld Minerals executive director Anthony Viljoen
The labour force at black-owned and black-controlled Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat), which was a model of stability during the wave of worker unrest that swept through Rustenburg’s troubled platinum belt, put productivity on a new high in the six months to June 30 despite the worst strike in South African history taking place on its doorstep.
RBPlat CEO Steve Phiri
RBPlat COO Nico Muller
Gold-mining company Sibanye Gold has begun an intensive search for appropriate technology to make the work of mining safer, easier and more productive.
Sibanye Gold CEO Neal Froneman
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