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:
130 000 ex-mineworkers claim their unpaid benefits.
Glencore’s R8-billion Tweefontein project is on time and under budget.
And, Wesizwe reaches an underground milestone.
Former mineworkers and their beneficiaries are continuing to come forward in their droves to claim unpaid pension, provident fund and service-award benefits.
Teba CEO Dr Graham Herbert
Diversified miner Glencore’s Tweefontein Optimisation Project was on course to reach steady-state plant production of 12.4-million tons a year by August 2015, the company told Mining Weekly during a site visit.
Tweefontein GM Allen Butcher
Chinese-backed emerging platinum producer Wesizwe Platinum has reached another milestone at its flagship Bakubung platinum mine project, which is already two-and-a-half years ahead of schedule.
Bakubung mine manager Eddie Mohlabi
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