Resources Watch

5th March 2015 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Resources Watch

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:
Implats moves to power its platinum refinery with platinum fuel cells.
A property sale provides profitability impetus for AECI.
And, AngloGold Ashanti is in mass meetings with workers ahead of wage talks.

Platinum major Impala Platinum is studying the feasibility of taking its entire platinum refinery off the national electricity grid and powering it with platinum fuel cells.

Implats CEO Terence Goodlace

The completion of the bulk surplus property sale of a 2 300 ha Heartland property in Modderfontein to Chinese investors, as well as a “record performance” from the speciality chemicals cluster, were key to the growth of AECI’s profitability.

AECI CEO Mark Dytor

Gold major AngloGold Ashanti outlines how it conducted eight days of mass meetings with unlimited question-and-answer sessions with all of its mineworkers, ahead of the crucial gold industry wage talks.

AngloGold Ashanti CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan

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