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Leadership must foster a culture of innovation across all levels of the workforce and clearly communicate the strategic rationale for the successful adoption of modern mining technologies, enabling...
Martin Creamer talks about manganese for battery electric vehicles, a new gold recovery operation and a new vanadium project.
South Africa mines less than 2% of global manganese and the mineral is abundant, but processed and beneficiated manganese products are critical and in demand, especially as most of the world's...
South Africa is far behind in its work to transition to a carbon-neutral energy system by 2050, and the significant proposed electricity tariff increases being sought by State-owned Eskom could...
JSE- and TSX-listed Eastern Platinum (Eastplats) has commissioned a platinum group metals (PGM) processing facility at its flagship Crocodile River mine (CRM) located within the Bushveld Complex in...
JSE-listed Northam Platinum has finalised a power purchase agreement (PPA) with an independent power producer (IPP) for an 80 MW solar power plant to service its Zondereinde operation, near the...
Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal and US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo signed an agreement on Thursday to cooperate on strengthening supply chains in the two countries for lithium, cobalt and...
Proxy firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis have each recommended that shareholders of Osisko vote for the transaction with Gold Fields. The South Africa-headquartered...
Anglo American will not be an "inevitable" takeover target after its unbundles its diamond, platinum, nickel and coal assets, CEO Duncan Wanblad said on Thursday. The mining giant is restructuring...
Svendborg Brakes have been installed as original equipment in South Africa, and throughout the world, on a wide range of applications. The key to their success is extensive application knowledge,...
It is no coincidence that the majority of the world’s mobile crushing equipment is fitted with PT Tech hydraulic power take off (HPTO) clutch units as they were essentially designed to meet the...
At this year’s Electra Mining Africa event, conveyor specialists Tru-Trac Rollers unveiled a suite of advanced conveyor technologies designed to enhance materials handling and optimise the...
Local mobile and semi-mobile crushing and screening equipment provider Pilot Crushtec has introduced to the African market the Metso HRC 8 high-pressure grinding roll crusher that addresses...
The reception to screening solutions provider Sandvik Rock Processing’s entry into the screening media market in Africa has been positive, says Africa regional manager for screening media and wear...
Through many years of development and refinement, France-based conveyor component solutions developer MLT GROUP South Africa showcased its new range of Super-Screw conveyor belt splicing products...
While the recent Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations stipulating that 30% of recycled material should be used in the production of packaging is being worked toward, there needs to be...
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is considered to be the most versatile thermoplastic, having established itself as an essential material in the packaging industry. Its unique properties offer a variety of...
This week we profile Raisibe Morathi, CFO and executive director of telecoms and fintech group Vodacom
With a focus on improving the performance, and increasing the reliability, of operations, Tru-Trac Rollers, a conveyor belt solutions manufacturer and supplier of the Tru-Trac conveyor belt scales,...
Future security of supply is of major concern to pipeline operator Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Investments Company’s (Rompco’s) as gas supply from the Pande and Temane gasfields, operated by...
Despite consensus among South African businesses, including integrated energy and chemical company Sasol, on the necessity of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, the debate regarding the pace of...
With the aim of driving sustainable value and supporting strategic transformation for the future, integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol appointed Walt Bruns as CFO and an executive director...
Integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol and crude oil refinery National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa (Natref) employees in Sasolburg marked Nelson Mandela International Day, on July 18...
Integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol’s premier solar car event, the Sasol Solar Challenge (SSC), returned for the sixteenth year, with a focus on the blend of innovation, competition and...
South Africa's energy market was liberalising and evolving, with State efforts to establish a stable and effective framework and moving at pace on energy transition matters, along with...
In June 2024, VR8 announced that it had chosen to modify the back end of the SRL processing plant. This modification has been made in response to higher-than-expected demand for higher-purity forms...
A scoping study has shown the project to have very attractive economics, with results justifying a prefeasibility study already under way.
Welcome to the newest addition to the OLI family of products, the mechanical exciter. The MVM series of unidirectional mechanical oscillators has been designed for large-scale vibrating...
Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions plays a pivotal role in Africa’s mining and quarrying sectors by delivering advanced, high performance crushing and screening equipment. Catering to the...
The Coca-Cola Company in Africa and its bottling partners – Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC) and Coca-Cola HBC – plan to invest nearly $25-million to...
The Afrimat Construction Index (ACI) has managed to bounce back in the second quarter of this year. The ACI is a composite index of the level of activity within the building and construction...
It’s time for South Africa to interrogate its policy of pursuing a so-called ‘energy mix’, which may sound reasonable, but which has become little more than a convenient fig leaf for policy...
The biggest takeaway from the hugely profitable Mogale tailings retreatment (MTR) operation, which was commissioned west of Johannesburg by Pan African Resources on Thursday, is that one can make a...
Diversified metals producer with operations in South Africa and Zambia Jubilee Metals Group achieved significant growth across its copper and chrome operations for the financial year ended June 30....
While environmental, social and governance (ESG) has risen in prominence globally, the concept has become too broad, opening it up to uncertainty and criticism, Genesis Analytics partner Ryan Short...
Anticorruption nonprofit organisation Corruption Watch (CW) has launched the Best Practice Guideline on Community Consultation in the South African Extractives Industry 2024 (BPG), as part of the...
( Virtual Showroom ) Achieving the best return on their plant investment is a primary goal for mines, and partnering with OEMs like Weir is a strategic way to enhance equipment performance while...
Zimbabwe has softened its requirements for lithium miners to process the mineral locally, a government official said on Thursday, as the industry battles to survive a price slump over the past...
Technology can play a significant role in empowering South Africa’s water utilities to get ahead of the curve and arrest the accessibility and quality decline brought about by increasingly ageing...
Chen Jinghe was not long out of university when a government official handed him the assignment that would change his life. Go to Zijin mountain, he was told, and find gold. It was 1982, and the...
The modest size of Zimbabwe’s mining sector has not prevented Sandvik’s operation in the country from rolling out world class partnerships – including the pioneering deployment of autonomous trucks...
An exhibition viewed by industry as one of the most important events on the calendar, Electra Mining Africa pulled out all the stops this year and delivered its biggest ever show in its 52 year...
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