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:
Technology initially developed for the oil and gas industry enables the visualisation of the subsurface of an entire mining area.
The Central African Republic is the new ‘blood diamond’ hub.
And, technology slashes power use at Glencore's huge South African chrome smelter.
Using only traditional exploration techniques, such as drilling boreholes, doesn’t enable an accurate perspective of the structural complexity of the earth’s subsurface at depth. However, using new three-dimensional seismic reflection interpretation technology can enable 3D visualisation of the subsurface of an entire mining area.
Wits University geophysics lecturer Dr Musa Manzi
The dysfunctional Central African Republic has taken over as the country where “blood diamond” activity is again rife.
International Crisis Group project director Thierry Vircoulon
The Lion ferrochrome smelter owned and operated by the Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture, uses 37% less electricity than conventional ferrochrome processes to produce the equivalent volume of ferrochrome.
Lion general works manager Dr Andre van Zyl
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