Resources Watch

17th October 2013 By: Creamer Media Reporter

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:
South Africa’s port and rail coal mismatch needs to be improved to gain India’s imports.
A local black mining equipment manufacturer is hitting the export high-spots.
And, Sunbird's Ibhubesi licence transfer is approved.

The participants of South Africa’s coal value chain need to put an end to the misalignment of the ports over-capacity and rails under-capacity, says Webber Wentzel mining partner Manus Booysen.

Webber Wentzel partner Manus Booysen

South Africa’s 56% black-controlled Aard Mining Equipment is attracting attention internationally as an exporter of locally designed and manufactured South African equipment into the global underground mining market.

Aard Mining Equipment CEO Anton Wheeler

The South African government has approved the transfer of an offshore licence, which includes the Ibhubesi gas project, to ASX-listed Sunbird Energy.

Sunbird Energy MD Will Barker

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