https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Receive our free daily newsletter:

Chantelle Kotze

Chantelle Kotze

Chantelle Kotze is a former Staff Writer for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

Tel: +2711 622 3744

Email: newsdesk@engineeringnews.co.za

By Chantelle Kotze

LOOKING FORWARD
Developing cutting edge mining technology and relevant skills is important in ensuring productive future mines

Importance of developing cutting-edge mining technology stressed

24th October 2014

The future of mining through the eyes of the next generation places importance on working towards ensuring a sustainable future, by means of developing cutting edge mining technology and finely... 


Fraser Alexander interim CEO Velile Nhlapo

Fraser Alexander appoints interim CEO

20th October 2014

Jaap Nel has stepped down as CEO and as a member of the board of directors of mining solutions company Fraser Alexander, which is a subsidiary of Royal Bafokeng Holdings. His resignation is... 


RECOVERY PROCESS
Submerged Industrial’s cyanide recovery process produces an instantaneous reaction in the reactor, with zero emissions, owing to its closed-circuit recovery process

Firm develops new process to recover cyanide

17th October 2014

Separation technology provider Submerged Industrial has developed a unique process to recover cyanide, a substance most commonly used as a reagent in the gold recovery process and, in some cases,... 


Mantashe presses mining industry to forge beneficial partnerships

17th October 2014

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has highlighted the importance of forming partnerships within the mining industry to ensure a... 


Chamber of Mines president Mike Teke

CEOs walk the tightrope that is the SA mining industry

10th October 2014

The role of the South African mining industry CEO is changing as they are being tasked on an ongoing basis with the high-pressure job of maintaining and creating value in an industry plagued with... 


Monitoring, assessing of land reclamation methods gaining momentum in SA

Monitoring, assessing of land reclamation methods gaining momentum in SA

10th October 2014

The mining industry contributes significantly to South Africa’s economic development and job creation. It also remains an infinite source of growth for the country, which means that postmining... 


NHL TR100 DUMP TRUCK
The dump truck has a 91 t payload capacity

Truck dealer expands vehicle, equipment offering to mining sector

10th October 2014

Ever Star Industries, which has been trading as PowerStar South Africa, the local distributor of Chinese trucks manufactured by PowerStar Group, officially announced its restructuring at a press... 


GARYN RAPSON
The National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Act aims to give rise to the “One Environmental System” for South Africa’s mining industry

Law for ‘one environmental system’ relating to mining, related activities comes into force

10th October 2014

The National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Act (Nemla 3) came into force last month on September 3. Nemla 3 forms part of a suite of new laws that will give rise to the “One Environmental... 


Monitoring, assessing of land reclamation methods gaining momentum in SA

Monitoring, assessing of land reclamation methods gaining momentum in SA

10th October 2014

The mining industry contributes significantly to South Africa’s economic development and job creation. It also remains an infinite source of growth for the country, which means that post-mining... 


KHANYISILE KWEYAMA The Municipal Capacity Development Programme would directly improve the conditions of local communities in South Africa by improving service delivery and shaping social development

Anglo puts up R120m for municipal capacity development

10th October 2014

Programme implementation is already under way for diversified miner Anglo American’s R120-million, three year Municipal Capacity Development Programme (MCDP), which it is undertaking in partnership... 


Gwede Mantashe

Mantashe presses mining industry to forge beneficial partnerships

9th October 2014

African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has highlighted the importance of forming partnerships within the mining industry to ensure a successful future. "Partnerships need... 


NGOAKO RAMATLHODI
Mining exhibitions such as Electra Mining Africa are important for the mining sector in terms of exposing local technology to the world and to expose the country to technologies from elsewhere

Announcement on MPRDA Amendment Bill imminent – Minister

3rd October 2014

Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi said last month, during a visit to the Electra Mining Africa Exhibition, that he had met with President Jacob Zuma concerning the Mineral and Petroleum... 


MANITOU MHT-X 14350 TELEHANDLER
The telehandler was launched at the Electra Mining Africa exhibition last month and is currently the world’s largest telehandler available on the market

Manitou unveils ‘the world’s largest telehandler’

3rd October 2014

Rough-terrain machinery and material handling equipment supplier Manitou Southern Africa launched the world’s largest telehandler, the MHT-X 14350, as well as three new flameproof mining machines,... 


SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Pictured at the project handover ceremony is Quinton Naidoo, Thabazimbi Local Municipality Mayor Cllr. Patricia Mosito, Cornelia Holtzhausen, Limpopo Agriculture MEC Joy Matshoga and Food and Trees for Africa director Shaun Clarke

Thabazimbi mine donates R16m vegetable garden project

26th September 2014

As part of its approach to sustainable development, Anglo American company Kumba Iron Ore’s Thabazimbi mine handed over a R16 million bio-energy and organic vegetable project to the community of... 


ANDY CLAY If mining companies do not heed the warning to innovate, there will continue to be a downturn in the industry going forward

Mining industry needs to innovate to stay relevant – Clay

26th September 2014

The mining industry, which is facing tumultuous times in terms of funding, collapsed project pipelines and the ever present issue of resource nationalism, needs to develop an innovative strategy to... 


RONNY WEBBER-YOUNGMAN 
Educating mining engineering students using virtual reality tools may promote analytical and creative thinking, communication and teamwork, practical ingenuity and the ability to generate alternative workable technologies

Academic calls for use of virtual reality technology to ensure safe, productive mines

26th September 2014

University of Pretoria (UP) Department of Mining Engineering (DME) head Dr Ronny Webber-Youngman believes mining engineering students need to become “imagineers” and work on developing safer and... 


SYBIL RHOMBERG
The only way to develop an industry quickly is through clustering, as it creates a platform to interface and link synergies

Mineral processing equipment cluster gaining momentum

26th September 2014

The South African Mineral Processing Equipment Cluster (Sampec), which was launched earlier this year, has gotten off to a flying start, says South African Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC)... 


Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi

MPRDA Amendment Bill announcement imminent - Ramatlhodi

19th September 2014

Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi said on Friday, during a visit to the Electra Mining Africa Exhibition, that he had met with President Jacob Zuma concerning the Mineral and Petroleum... 


MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY Reliable Transformers designs and manufactures dry-type and oil-filled power and distribution transformers up to 3.5 MVA

Transformer manufacturer sets sights on ISO 9001:2008 accreditation

19th September 2014

While Ekurhuleni-based transformer manufacturer Reliable Transformers currently designs, manufactures and tests its products according to the SANS 780 specifications for distribution transformers... 


GRAHAM HERBERT 
In the past, we saw our mission as serving mines and mineworkers; now, it is more about unlocking human potential wherever we find it

Rebranding Teba says its mission now is ‘more about human potential wherever we find it’

19th September 2014

The long-standing Teba Limited business, which recruits and manages local and foreign labour for South Africa’s mining industry, has changed its approach from being an inward-looking company to one... 


AFTER-EFFECTS Mineworkers may now find themselves in a more detrimental financial position than before the five-month strike in the platinum sector

Mineworker indebtedness a major worry post five-month strike

19th September 2014

While mineworkers have resumed work on the platinum belt in the Rustenburg area generally pleased with the outcome of the wage agreements reached subsequent to the five-month-long protracted... 


DECLAN VOGT
South Africa needs to urgently build a new cohort of mining researchers to further the country’s mechanised mining vision

Academic urges mining sector to mechanise operations

19th September 2014

The South African mining industry must mechanise its operations and research has a crucial role to play in helping industry to get there, says Centre for Mechanised Mining Systems (CMMS) director... 


Mining industry needs to innovate to stay relevant

Mining industry needs to innovate to stay relevant

17th September 2014

The mining industry, which is facing tumultuous times in terms of funding, collapsed project pipelines and the ever present issue of resource nationalism, needs to develop an innovative strategy to... 


Minerals processing equipment cluster gains momentum

Minerals processing equipment cluster gains momentum

17th September 2014

The South African Mineral Processing Equipment Cluster (Sampec), which was launched earlier this year, has gotten off to a flying start, says South African Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC)... 


Dr Ronny Webber-Youngman

Students need to become ‘imagineers’, academic urges

16th September 2014

University of Pretoria (UP) Department of Mining Engineering (DME) head Dr Ronny Webber-Youngman believes mining engineering students need to become “imagineers” and work on developing safer and... 


Gold price reform to focus on improved transparency, governance controls

Gold price reform to focus on improved transparency, governance controls

12th September 2014

Instead of scrapping the century-old London Gold Fix altogether, gold industry role-players are calling for the modernisation of the method used to determine global gold price benchmarks, which is... 


DENNIS BUCHANAN The TechFin course, which is limited to 25 delegates, has been running up to twice a year for almost a decade and is consistently over-subscribed

Wits business school to hold course on technical, financial evaluation of mineral projects

12th September 2014

A five-day ‘Technical and Financial Evaluation of Mineral Projects’ (TechFin) course aimed at professionals involved in mining finance and the evaluation of mining projects will be held between 15... 


Gold price reform to focus on improved transparency,  governance controls

Gold price reform to focus on improved transparency, governance controls

12th September 2014

Instead of scrapping the century-old London Gold Fix altogether, gold industry role-players are calling for the modernisation of the method used to determine global gold price benchmarks, which is... 


PATRICE MOTSEPE
African Rainbow Minerals’ results highlights the benefit of being a company with such a diverse asset portfolio

Platinum, iron-ore, manganese boost ARM’s earnings

12th September 2014

The headline earnings of black-controlled JSE-listed African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) increased 10% to R4.11-billion for the year ended June 30, the diversified mining company reported last week. 


ALLAN WIDLAKE
The newly developed 350 t shaft boring enlarger basically works like a modern hard rock tunnel boring machine, but vertically

Machine reduces shaft-sinking time by 20% to 30%

5th September 2014

Mining contracting company Murray & Roberts Cementation, in partnership with tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht and Germany-based Thyssen Schachtbau have develop the latest generation... 


ALUMINUIM FRAUD
Multiple loans have been secured against a single cargo of aluminium metal at China’s Qingdao port

Standard Bank estimates exposure to Chinese aluminium fraud at R854m

5th September 2014

In its results for the six months ended June 30, banking group Standard Bank reported that the impact of its exposure to fraudulent activities in respect of physical aluminium, held in bonded... 


UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Regulatory challenges face shale gas development as a result of uncertainty surrounding how the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act Amendment Bill will relate to the unconventional gas developments

Next three years seen as crucial to determining shale gas sector’s trajectory

5th September 2014

While the development of a shale gas industry in South Africa and its neighbouring countries has commonly been described as an economic ‘game-changer’, legal services firm Webber Wentzel director... 


NECESSARY REHAB South Africa has several good examples of what can be achieved to leave a sustainable legacy based on good rehabilitation planning and implementation

Land rehab experts to share experiences at four-day conference

5th September 2014

Nonprofit organisation the Land Rehabilitation Society of Southern Africa (LaRSSA) will host its second yearly conference in September. 


ARM executive chairperson Patrice Motsepe

Platinum, iron-ore, manganese boost ARM’s FY earnings

4th September 2014

The headline earnings of black-controlled JSE-listed African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) increased 10% to R4.11-billion for the year ended June 30, the diversified mining company reported on Thursday.... 


Teba MD Graham Herbert

Teba moves to change its position in the marketplace

4th September 2014

The long-standing Teba Limited business, which recruits and manages local and foreign labour for South Africa’s mining industry, has changed its approach from being an inward-looking company to one... 


GRAHAM BRIGGS
Hamony Gold believes Golpu will add value to its asset portfolio and be a really sustainable mine going forward

Harmony to focus on growing value of PNG assets between 2015 and 2020

29th August 2014

Part of gold miner Harmony Gold’s strategy between 2015 and 2020 is to grow the value per share of its Papua New Guinea assets by completing studies at its Golpu project and by building the Golpu... 


R47-million bioenergy project under development by Harmony

29th August 2014

Gold miner Harmony Gold is implementing a R47-million bio-energy pilot scale project involving the procreation of bio crops, namely giant king grass and sugarbeet, on mine-impacted land and... 


GRAHAM BRIGGS
Harmony Gold is satisfied with the year despite fairly abundant operational challenges experienced

Harmony ups gold production, but profit slides as price drops, costs rise

22nd August 2014

Gold miner Harmony Gold recorded a 3% year-on-year rise in gold production to 36 453 kg, or 1.17-million ounces, for the 2014 financial year. 


FIRST EVER
The world’s first platinum-using fuel cell minigrid prototype was developed for use in an off-grid residential application, where the cost of electrification through grid expansion might be too expensive or technically prohibitive

Amplats, partner launch trailblazing platinum-using fuel cell mini-grid

15th August 2014

JSE-listed platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and Canada-based Ballard Power Systems on Tuesday launched the world’s first platinum-using fuel cell mini-grid electrification field... 


Harmony Gold CEO Graham Briggs

Harmony increases gold production and grades, despite low gold price

14th August 2014

Gold miner Harmony Gold recorded a 3% year-on-year rise in gold production to 36 453 kg, or 1.17-million ounces, for the 2014 financial year. 


JSE resource listings plunge 50% in last 20 years, total market cap at R2.82tr

JSE resource listings plunge 50% in last 20 years, total market cap at R2.82tr

8th August 2014

Although the resource listings on the JSE have declined significantly over the last 20 years, from 130 listed mining companies in 1994 to only 66 basic resource companies (in the mining and... 


1
2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Research Reports

Projects

Latest Multimedia

Magazine video image
Magazine round up | 29 March 2024
Updated 3 hours ago

Latest News

Showroom

Environmental Assurance (Pty) Ltd.
Environmental Assurance (Pty) Ltd.

ENVASS is a customer and solutions-driven environmental consultancy with established divisions, serviced by highly qualified and experienced...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Schauenburg SmartMine IoT
Schauenburg SmartMine IoT

SmartMine IoT has been developed with the mining industry in mind, to provides our customers with powerful business intelligence and data modelling...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Rentech
Rentech

Rentech provides renewable energy products and services to the local and selected African markets. Supplying inverters, lithium and lead-acid...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Goodwin Submersible Pumps Africa (Pty) Ltd
Goodwin Submersible Pumps Africa (Pty) Ltd

Goodwin Submersible Pumps Africa is sole distributors for Goodwin electrically driven, submersible, abrasion resistance slurry pumps.

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







0.357s - 69pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now