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This week:
Solar to provide most of gold plants’ daytime power
Mponeng integration presenting ‘wonderful opportunities’
And, Egoli likely to be S Africa’s least complicated underground gold mine
The 10 MW solar electricity plant that Pan African Resources will construct on site at its Elikhulu gold-from-tailings plant next year at a cost of R150-million will take care of most of Elikhulu’s daytime power requirements.
Pan African Resources CEO Cobus Loots:
The integration of Mponeng underground gold mine and Mine Waste Solutions surface gold recovery operation into Harmony Gold was presenting “wonderful opportunities” in the West Wits area.
Harmony CEO Peter Steenkamp:
What is expected to be South Africa’s least complicated underground gold mine is on the way at Evander, Mpumalanga, in the form of the Egoli gold project.
Pan African Resources CEO Cobus Loots:
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