Mining major BHP has awarded contracts for Australia’s first wind fences, designed to reduce dust emissions as part of BHP’s A$300-million air quality commitment. The fences will be built in Port... 

Global warming made the heavy rains behind South Africa's devastating floods last month twice as likely as they would have been if greenhouse gas emissions had never heated the planet, scientists... 

There is a growing need to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the minerals processing sector, with metallurgical engineering graduates quickly realising their lack of practical... 

Zimbabwean security guard Edwin Dapi was already struggling to provide for his wife and four children before a conflict 11 000 km away in Ukraine sent global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel... 

Growing up in Kwazulu-Natal, I would regularly travel with my father to  far-flung parts of the province as he embarked on community infrastructure projects. On these trips, he would point out the... 

The Phase 2 expansion of the Jacobina mine, in Brazil, is progressing ahead of schedule and is now expected to achieve its throughput objective one-year ahead of schedule, Canada-based Yamana Gold... 

About 36% of the natural disasters that have occurred in Africa in the past four decades were in Southern Africa and they carried an estimated cumulative economic loss of R640-billion. Alize le... 

Business intelligence firm Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research is revising its 2022 iron-ore price forecast upwards, from $90/t to $120/t, and its 2023 forecast, from $75/t to... 

London-listed gold producer Caracal Gold has raised about £2-million through the placement of an additional 177-million ordinary shares. The additional shares were acquired by a major shareholder... 

Aim-listed Caracal Gold is accelerating implementation of the final phase of its initial three-phase operational plan to further increase gold production and improve efficiencies at its flagship... 

When the Cavex® hydrocyclone was introduced to the industry over 20 years ago it set the benchmark for the rest of the market. The recently launched Cavex® 2 took this product range a step further... 

A prefeasibility study has delivered robust economics for the CK gold project. 

TSX-V-listed silver, gold and copper explorer and developer Silver Bullet Mines (SBMI) is progressing with the construction of a 125 t/d modular pilot plant in Arizona, in the US, and is on track... 

A coal mine in the Crowsnest Pass, in Canada. 

In an underground mining environment, there is a dire need for an integrated approach to effective dust control for improve underground health conditions. Mine ventilation and cooling company BBE... 

In this opinion article, Standard Bank head of sustainable finance, wholesale clients Greg Fyfe and head of power, wholesale clients Rentia van Tonder write that Africa has no choice but to join... 

Decades of product evolution have given multinational engineering company FLSmidth a range of solutions – including its LoadIQ smart sensor technology – to supply and optimise all technology in the... 

We Africans are an unhappy lot. I am not joking – scientifically derived statistics are available to back this up, and it appears the advent of Covid-19 has exacerbated our collective melancholy.... 

A project to convert the Driefontein 2 plant at the Far West Gold Recoveries surface retreatment operation to closed-circuit milling is nearing completion. 

NYSE- and JSE-listed DRDGold says a project to convert the Driefontein 2 Plant (DP2) at the Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) surface retreatment operation, in Gauteng, to closed-circuit milling, is... 

Instrument technicians at remote sites can now install the CyLas on-line instrument for measuring a hydrocyclone’s underflow flare discharge angle with only telephone or email assistance where... 

A leading South African climate scientist believes a ‘Gauteng day-zero drought’ represents the biggest near-term climate change risk faced by the country, which is poised to become hotter and drier... 

LSE-listed multi-commodity miner Premier African Minerals has completed a new underground conceptual mine plan for its RHA tungsten project, in Zimbabwe. The objective of the new conceptual mine... 

A preliminary economic assessment has indicated the potential viability of a Swedish operation producing battery-grade graphite anode material using an existing graphite mine and concentrator. 

Year of Formation and Background to Founding: A great story of development and growth started from humble beginnings with two people, Keith Halley and Mike Mellowes starting the engineering... 

Environmental phenomena such as climate change and its manifestations, including extreme weather events, are featuring more prominently on the risk radar of investors, banks and commercial farmers,... 

Environmental phenomena such as climate change and its manifestations, including extreme weather events, are featuring more prominently on the risk radar of investors, banks and commercial farmers,... 

Multotec South America’s well entrenched operations continue to grow despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on all industries worldwide. Amid the mass closures and restrictions that defined... 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the African continent to speak with one clear voice to "express unwavering support" for the implementation of the United Nations Climate Change Convention... 

The impact of the recent Cyclone Eloise has shown that mines in Mozambique face extreme challenges related to water, which can only be addressed through early planning and continuous management,... 

Minerals processing equipment manufacturer Multotec aims to continue investing in modernising its local manufacturing capabilities. “In the long term, we would like to invest in Fourth Industrial... 

This should have been a promising year for Africa. Instead, a lack of access to vaccines threatens to make things worse. After decades of progress in the continent’s fight against poverty, Covid-19... 

Since establishing a presence in Botswana in 2011, mineral processing equipment manufacturer Multotec’s regional office has become an innovative equipment supplier, having started commissioning of... 

Weir Minerals’ Cavex® classification hydrocyclones have added value to two more African mines; one is a gold mining operation and the other mines fluorspar.  Following the retrofitting of two... 

Madagascar’s farmers stand to build stronger climate resilience, increase productivity and more easily access financial services owing to an agricultural insurance programme announced on May 5 by... 

Canadian miner Yamana Gold produced 231 988 gold-equivalent ounces (GEO) in the first quarter, including gold production of 201 117 oz and silver production of 2.1-million ounces, both in line with... 

Mozambique's economy faces multiple challenges, including a growing insurgency against the government and recurring extreme weather events, ratings agency S&P Global said in a research report. S&P... 

Diversified giant Rio Tinto has reported a solid quarter of production for the three months to March, with the miner maintaining its production guidance across its portfolio. Iron-ore production... 

A new generation hydrocyclone is said to offer significant improvements in separation performance and reduced turbulence, compared to current versions. Weir Minerals has launched its Cavex 2... 

In his book, Feline Philosophy, which is about what cats can teach humans, John Gray points us to a few lessons. One of these is pertinent to what I discuss in this article: beware of anyone who... 

Weir Minerals has launched its Cavex® 2 hydrocyclone, which is an exciting improvement on the successful Cavex® hydrocyclone launched in the 1990s. The design of the new generation model ensures a... 

The Secretary of State is “calling-in” the planning decision for the project.