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Tasneem Bulbulia is a Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor Online for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
Transportation focus shifting to people-centred approach
There is an increased focus on the role of transportation in society and how it can be used to improve peoples’ quality of life, rather than focusing only on building and maintaining systems. This...
Marula subsidiary acquires interest in high-grade historic cobalt mine in South Africa
Africa-focused mining and development company Marula Mining, through its wholly owned South African subsidiary Muchai Mining South Africa, has signed a binding term sheet with South African mining...
Tharisa’s third-quarter production in line with expectations
Johannesburg- and London-listed Tharisa’s operational performance for the third quarter of its 2024 financial year was aligned to expectations, CEO Phoevos Pouroulis says, with improved mining and...
DigiMine head graduates with PhD in engineering from Wits
Dr Muhammad Ahsan Mahboob, head of the Digital Mining Laboratory (DigiMine) at Wits University, was awarded his PhD in engineering from the School of Mining Engineering, Wits University, in a...
Atlantic reports Ewoyaa fatality
Aim- and ASX-listed Atlantic Lithium reports that a member of the workforce at its Ewoyaa lithium project, in Ghana, was fatally injured on Tuesday. Site activities have been suspended. The...
Transport conference outlines challenges, opportunities in necessary reskilling/upskilling
South Africa’s transport industry is a significant contributor to the country’s gross domestic product; however, it is being impacted on by several factors, which necessitates the reskilling and...
Latest Cesa survey highlights pressing need for joint public, private effort on infrastructure
Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) on Tuesday released its Bi-Annual Economic and Capacity Survey (BECS) findings, revealing a stark 22% decline from July to December of 23, marking the...
SAB profiles impact of responsible consumption platform
At an event held at the group’s premises in Bryanston, Johannesburg, on July 2, beverage manufacturing group South African Breweries (SAB) showcased progress achieved by its responsible consumption...
Business welcomes finalisation of Cabinet, highlights focus areas for economic growth
Business organisations have responded to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of a final agreement for a Government of National Unity (GNU) and the new Cabinet, with consensus that an...
Panel explores relevance of listed market for mining capital
The world is infinitely more complex now, with the energy transition, longer lead times and geopolitical fracturing, than in previous years and this presents challenges and questions around mining...
London Indaba speakers highlight opportunities to bolster Africa’s critical minerals involvement
During the first day of the London Indaba, on June 25, held under the theme “Investing in Resources and Mining in Africa”, panel discussions unpacked what the continent’s mining jurisdictions could...
Orion’s shares halted ahead of capital raising announcement
JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals’ shares will be placed in a trading halt, pending the release of an announcement regarding a capital raising. Orion expects to make an announcement to the market...
Marula signs export logistics agreement for Kenyan mine
Africa-focused mining and development company Marula Mining has entered into an export logistics agreement with Scan Global Logistics (SGL) Group’s Kenya-based subsidiary, SGL Kenya, for the...
Southern Palladium completes drilling campaign for South African project
JSE-listed Southern Palladium has completed an initial resource drilling campaign as part of a prefeasibility study (PFS) for the Bengwenyama platinum group metal (PGM) project, located on the...
Nestlé’s South African dairy farm, factory exemplifiers of group’s sustainability goals
As Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate Nestlé’s seeks to reach its ambitious global target of waste-free operations and net-zero emissions by 2050, two of the group’s South...
Linda Lourie appointed HyProMag USA advisory board director
TSX-V-listed CoTec Holdings and Aim- and TSX-V-listed Mkango Resources have appointed Linda Lourie as an advisory board director for their joint venture (JV), HyProMag USA, effective June 24....
Galileo to undertake Phase 3 drill programme at Zambian project
Aim-listed Galileo Resources has decided to undertake a Phase 3 drill programme to validate its current view that near-surface copper/gold mineralisation occurs along the Shinganda fault splay over...
Drilling programme at Orion’s Okiep project confirms high-grade potential
JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals has reported further “outstanding” assay results from the confirmation diamond drilling programme in the Flat Mines area at its Okiep copper project (OCP), in the...
MC Mining names interim MD, CEO
Coal miner MC Mining has appointed nonexecutive director Christine He interim MD and CEO, with effect from July 1. This follows the earlier announcement that Godfrey Gomwe has resigned as MD and...
Gemfields earns $68.7m in revenue from June ruby auction
London-listed Gemfields Group recorded total auction revenues of $68.7-million from the June auction of mixed-quality rough rubies recovered from the Montepuez ruby mine, in Mozambique. The group...
Latest Cesa survey highlights urgency of joint public, private effort on infrastructure
Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) on Tuesday released its Bi-Annual Economic and Capacity Survey (BECS) findings, revealing a stark 22% decline from July to December of 23, marking the...
Diederichs becomes Predictive COO as firm bolsters management to support Guinea project progress
ASX-listed Predictive Discovery has made several key appointments to further strengthen its board and management team, to support progress with the 5.38-million-ounce Bankan gold project in Guinea....
Galantas’ Omagh trial stoping proves viability of mining method
TSX-V-listed Galantas Gold has completed its trial stoping programme at the Cavanacaw gold mine at the Omagh project in county Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This programme has enhanced the company’s...
Global Atomic’s Niger project nearing financing from US development bank
TSX-listed Global Atomic is on the verge of securing financing for the development of the Dasa uranium project in Niger. Among the approaches is a proposed $295-million debt financing led by a US...
Cornish to dispose of Canada’s Nickel King property
Aim- and TSX-V-listed Cornish Metals has announced the sale of its 100% interest in the Nickel King and Opescal Lake properties, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, to Northera Resources for up to...
Lindian implements leadership changes to progress Malawi project
ASX-listed Lindian Resources has announced a cohort of board and leadership changes, effective immediately. Jack Fazio has resigned as nonexecutive director to assume a full-time role as project...
Arc starts drilling at Botswana project
London-listed Arc announces the start of an exploration drilling programme over the company’s PL135/2017 and PL162/2017 licences at its Virgo project within the highly prospective central...
candi solar secures $38m funding for clean energy expansion in South Africa, India
Clean energy company candi solar has successfully closed its Series C funding round, securing $38-million in equity investment. The round was led by Norfund, Kyuden International, and STOA Infra...
Nitrous oxide emissions grew by 40% from 1980 to 2020, study finds
Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas (GHG) said to be more potent than CO2 or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than ten-million metric tons were...
Volt expands team to facilitate growth to field operations
Lithium development and technology company Volt Lithium has appointed Dave Kimery as COO, Derek McFarlane as production engineer and field operations, and Greg Foofat as investor relations VP....
Plain language voluntary standard published
The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) in March adopted and published the South African National Standard (SANS) 24495 – Plain Language. South Africa has been implementing the principles of...
Ivanhoe completes Phase 3 concentrator construction at DRC copper complex
TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines announced that, on May 26, first ore was fed into the Phase 3 concentrator at the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). First ore marks the...
Sustainability reports highlights Osino’s investment in jobs, Namibia’s economy
TSX-listed Osino Resources’ Twin Hills gold project, located near Karibib in Namibia, is on track to create about 1 000 new jobs in the region, the company’s third annual sustainability report...
Gold Fields lowers full-year output guidance as Chile mine hit by severe weather
JSE- and NYSE-listed Gold Fields has revised its group-wide full-year production guidance downward, from between 2.33-million and 2.43-million ounces, to between 2.20-million and 2.30-million...
Hardin Ratshisusu appointed acting commissioner of the National Consumer Commission
Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has designated Hardin Ratshisusu as acting deputy commissioner and acting commissioner of the National Consumer Commission effective May 1. He...
Bezant marks progress at Namibia project
Aim-listed Bezant Resources has completed the chain of contractor services that will make up the Hope and Gorob mining operation, chairperson Colid Bird outlines in an update on the copper/gold...
South32’s Samancor Manganese to sell Metalloys smelter to South African company
South32 subsidiary Samancor Manganese has entered into a binding agreement for the sale of the Metalloys manganese alloy smelter, in Gauteng, to Khwelamet, an entity jointly owned by Menar and...
Eskom replaces over 400 transformers damaged by overloading
State-owned utility Eskom says that, to date, it has replaced 400 transformers damaged by network overloading since January. The entity points out that, as demand for electricity rises while...
Pilot phase at Sovereign’s Malawi project on track
ASX- and Aim-listed Sovereign Metals says pilot site construction for the ongoing pilot mining and land rehabilitation programme (pilot phase) at the Kasiya rutile/graphite project, in Malawi, is...
URA appoints Bonas Group as sales partner, qualifies as DelGatto client
London-listed URA Holdings has appointed Bonas Group as its sales partner and to market and sell rough emeralds recovered from the company’s Gravelotte emerald mine (GEM) in South Africa. This...
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