Mining news: South Africa

Larox to Supply Filters to Southern Africa

Larox has received three orders to supply filters to PGM and copper mines in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia. Total value of the deals is approximately 6.0 million euros. Deliveries will take place at the end of 2008 and early 2009.
The delivery to Zimbabwe consists of a large size Larox PF vertical pressure filter to [...]

Kloof Gold Mine achieves a million fatality-free shifts

In a stark reminder of the dangerous nature of deep level gold mining in South Africa. Gold Fields is rightly proud of its Kloof gold mine, near Westonaria on the West Rand, which today achieved one million fatality-free shifts. However, put in context, that is just 50 days without a fatality. Many mines in other parts [...]

Roy Slack - Cementation president knows people make companies great

By IAN ROSS
Roy Slack is has built the kind of company he always wanted to work for.
The president of one of Canada’s largest mine builders has developed a stellar company reputation for safety and a great place to work.
Cementation Canada’s core values will always be people-based. “As you go through your [...]

Gauteng remains committed to growth target despite power woes

The Gauteng province - South Africa’s economic hub - has reaffirmed its commitment to reach an economic growth target of 8% by 2018, despite the country’s prevailing national electricity emergency. Speaking at the opening of the Gauteng energy efficiency

South Africa: RBM to Build Tailings Plant

RICHARDS Bay Minerals , the minerals sands company owned jointly by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, had approved a R1bn project to build a tailings treatment plant that would extend the life of its KwaZulu-Natal …more at topix

Aluminum Supply To Drop As Costs Rise Over Next Five Years

Industry experts raised concern of a possible drop inf aluminum supplies in the next five years following record high increases in the price of oil and problems facing producers in China and South Africa.

Xstrata gains global recognition for HIV/AIDS community program in South Africa

Xstrata Coal South Africa has won a prestigious Business Excellence Award from the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC). The GBC Award for Business Excellence in HIV/AIDS Expanded Community Initiatives recognises Xstrata Coal’s innovative public-private partnership which has strengthened local health services and extended HIV/AIDS and TB testing, counselling and treatment in two health districts [...]

Rail-Veyor to be demonstrated in Sudbury

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN
What if a mine could transport ore underground quickly and inexpensively and, at the same time, reduce diesel emissions?
Starting in September 2008, Sudbury-based Rail-Veyor Technologies Inc. will demonstrate a novel conveyance system for Vale Inco on a piece of land it is leasing at the company’s Frood-Stobie Complex in [...]

Sasol donates R1m to victims of anti-foreigner violence

The money would go towards supporting those affected in both South Africa and Mozambique. The group had also established collection points at its offices from where donations of clothing, blankets and food were being coordinated, it said in an emailed

R195m to boost SA’s engineering, science and technology skills base

In today’s podcast: The IMF expects a GDP growth rate of 6,5% for sub Saharan Africa for 2008, Sasol votes through its R26-billion BEE deal,… The International Monetary Fund (IMF) set an expected gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 6,5% for sub

Women in Mining takes root in De Beers

De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) in the Northern Cape celebrated and shared its ‘Women in Mining’ projects at a function this week with the Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica, and with leaders from the mining sector, provincial government and women in technical positions from both Kimberley Mines and Finsch mine. Women make up [...]

NewMarket Technology, Inc. Reports Strong Latin America Sales Growth, Announcing Contract With $10 Billion Anglo American to Implement Oracle Hyperion Planning

NewMarket Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: NMKT) today announced the Company has experienced strong Latin America sales growth year-to-date, including UniOne’s recent contract with $10 billion Anglo American. Anglo American (www.angloamerican.co.uk), an existing client of NewMarket’s subsidiary UniOne, has chosen the consulting company to implement a multinational, multi-continent, Oracle Hyperion Planning project for Anglo American’s Base Metals [...]