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Glencore exposes UK students to South Africa’s hard-rock mining environment

UK students at Glencore's South African mine.

UK students at Glencore's South African mine.

2nd June 2014

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – London-, Hong Kong- and now also Johannesburg-listed Glencore has hosted a group of university students from the UK at the Thorncliffe chrome mine in Mpumalanga as part of their programme to understand hard-rock mining.

The diversified miner, which is also big in coal in South Africa, said in a media release that the 23 students from Imperial College London, led by Professor Dennis Buchanan, undertook the underground mine visit as a first for some of the students in the delegation.

Students were given an insight into the technical side of Thorncliffe’s mechanised underground mining operations that exemplify the journey of South Africa’s strike-hit mining industry away from labour intensity in the extraction of narrow-reef hard-rock mines.

Buchanan, who arranges an excursion to South Africa yearly for the group of MSc Metals and Energy Finance students and recent graduates with general science, engineering and finance degrees to enhance their employability in the minerals, coal and petroleum industries and the related finance divisions of investment banks, sees the programme as also providing complementary training for professionals with previous industrial experience.

With the phase two construction preventing a direct visit to Glencore’s Lion ferrochrome operation, the Thorncliffe visit gave students sight of the mine that supplies chrome to the Lion complex that uses unique low-electricity Premus technology.

Glencore Alloys GM eastern chrome mines Johan Combrink sees the visit as not only providing an opportunity to expose the students to hard-rock mining, but also a strengthening of the ties that the company has with Imperial College.

 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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