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Groundbreaking technique used to remove raisebore head
1st May 2025

An innovative method used to remove a raisebore was successfully applied by specialist shaft sinking and mining contractor Murray & Roberts Cementation. At the end of the raiseboring, or reaming,... 


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Calls for SABS investigation to be concluded sooner as another whistleblower report emerges
25th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Yet another whistleblower report regarding corruption and mismanagement at the South African Bureau of Standards has come to light, providing detailed accounts of long-standing governance failures,... 


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Lower Maguduza hydropower project, Eswatini
25th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The African Clean Energy Developments with the IDEAS Fund and the Eswatini Public Service Pensions Fund as shareholders plan to build a hydropower plant to achieve the country's ambitions of energy... 


Mining equipment excavating at the Kasiya rutile/graphite project
Kasiya rutile/graphite project, Malawi – update
25th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Several geotechnical programme are under way. 


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Kookaburra graphite project, Australia – update
25th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The project has been featured in the updated Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus for 2025, published by Austrade. 


Yaouré site map
Yaouré gold mine – CMA underground project, Côte d'Ivoire
25th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The CMA underground project will become Côte d’Ivoire’s first mechanised underground mine. 


Big 5 South Africa Impact Awards announce 51 finalists highlighting construction industry expertise, leadership and progression
24th April 2025

Amid great anticipation, the 51 finalists for the 3rd edition of Big 5 South Africa Impact Awards have officially been revealed.  Celebrating excellence across the built environment, Big 5 South... 


Seriti cuts the ribbon on its new Naudesbank Colliery
Seriti cuts the ribbon on its new Naudesbank Colliery
23rd April 2025

Coal producer Seriti officially declared its new Naudesbank Colliery, near Carolina, in Mpumalanga, open on March 14. Darren Parker was there. 


Lotus advances Kayelekera towards third-quarter production
Lotus advances Kayelekera towards third-quarter production
23rd April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Refurbishment and restart works at ASX-listed Lotus Resources’s Kayelekera uranium project, in Malawi, continue to progress as planned, with first uranium production on track for the third quarter... 


Murray & Roberts Cementation
Murray & Roberts Cementation
18th April 2025

Murray & Roberts Cementation, part of the Murray & Roberts group, is a top-tier underground mining contractor headquartered in Johannesburg, serving Africa. The company pioneered contract... 


Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation
Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation
18th April 2025

Leading provider of trade credit insurance in South Africa Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation (CGIC) was established in 1956. Since then, CGIC has built a reputation for excellence in risk... 


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Karo platinum project, Zimbabwe – update
18th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Platinum miner Tharisa has reported that infrastructure work at the project is ongoing. 


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Pallas research reactor, Netherlands – update
18th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The pouring of concrete, to form the foundation for the reactor building of the research reactor, has started. 


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Salares Norte mine, Chile
18th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

A gold/silver mine in the Atacama region of northern Chile. 


Ascot to restart Premier mill in August
Ascot to restart Premier mill in August
15th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Vancouver-based Ascot Resources plans to restart operations at its Premier gold mill in British Columbia in early August, following a delay caused by labour shortages that slowed underground... 


Safety meeting at Khumani mine.
Huge ten-year zero-fatality achievement by 10 000-employee, six-operation Assmang
15th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa's sizeable manganese ore, manganese alloy, and iron-ore producer Assmang has achieved a major mining safety landmark by being totally fatality free for ten years. Jointly owned by... 


Databuild Project Lead Generation empowers construction companies with critical data
Databuild Project Lead Generation empowers construction companies with critical data
14th April 2025

With the construction industry’s reliance on timely and accurate project information, Databuild’s Project Lead Generation service is an indispensable solution. This flagship offering provides a... 


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Technology integral to transformation, logistics improvements, summit hears in sector overview
14th April 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

South Africa’s transport and logistics systems are under strain, owing to factors including years of underinvestment, institutional inefficiency and policy misalignment; however, there are... 


Diesel Electric Services
Diesel Electric Services
11th April 2025

Kevin Donaldson purchased the generator sales division of the old Meissner company in 1993 with the specific agreement that for two years, the only focus will be service, maintenance and repairs to... 


Akkuyu feedwater reserve tank
Akkuyu nuclear power plant project, Türkiye – update
11th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The rigging operation for supplying the first large-sized equipment inside the building has been completed in the turbine hall of Akkuyu nuclear power plant Unit 3. 


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Devon Pit gold project, Australia – update
11th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The Devon Joint Venture has signed a binding mining services agreement with Blue Cap Mining for the development of the Devon Pit gold mine. 


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Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex, Democratic Republic of Congo – update
11th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Ivanhoe Mines has secured a significant boost in hydroelectric power for the complex. 


Drill samples from the Kiniero project
Kiniero gold project, Guinea – update
11th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Canadian mining company Robex Resources is on track to deliver first gold in the fourth quarter of this calendar year. 


Hoisting of a raisebore machine at Platreef
Murray & Roberts Cementation gets creative with reeve block system at Platreef
10th April 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Specialist shaft sinking and mining contractor Murray & Roberts Cementation has successfully completed a reeve block system project at Ivanplats’ Platreef project, in Limpopo. Ivanplats needed an... 


Macmahon wins A$900m contract extension at Byerwen
Macmahon wins A$900m contract extension at Byerwen
10th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Mining and civil infrastructure contractor Macmahon on Thursday announced that it had been awarded a three-year extension at the Byerwen coking coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen basin. Macmahon has... 


Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane
George building collapse revealed to be a result of ‘systematic failures across multiple levels of oversight’
9th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

An independent forensic investigation into the building that collapsed in George, in the Western Cape, last year, has found that systematic failures across multiple levels of oversight,... 


Angola's Sonangol seeks $4.8bn to bridge Lobito refinery funding gap
9th April 2025 By: Reuters

Angola's Sonangol is in talks with Chinese and European banks to overcome a $4.8-billion funding shortfall for its planned 200,000 barrel per day Lobito refinery, an executive with the State-owned... 


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Kefi continues to progress Ethiopia project
8th April 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Aim-listed Kefi Gold and Copper has reported recent across-the-board progress at its Tulu Kapi gold project, in Ethiopia. Preparations for full launch of the Tulu Kapi project are advancing across... 


Investing in the best jetting equipment for the job
Investing in the best jetting equipment for the job
7th April 2025

( Virtual showroom ) Makabongwe Nomatye, Director at Sojaji Pty Ltd., says his business is booming and growing faster than ever before now that he’s invested in the right equipment for his needs –... 


96% of pit toilets eradicated: Amnesty International SA disappointed with DBE
96% of pit toilets eradicated: Amnesty International SA disappointed with DBE
4th April 2025 By: Thabi Shomolekae

Amnesty International South Africa executive director Shenilla Mohamed on Friday expressed disappointment with the Department of Basic Education’s missed deadline to eradicate 100% of pit toilets... 


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SABS investigation continues amid unsettling allegations of mismanagement
4th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Ever since allegations of corruption and mismanagement against State-owned entity the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) started to surface late last year, the organisation has been under... 


Image of mining at the Kasiya project
Kasiya rutile-graphite project, Malawi
4th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The project has been reconfirmed as a leading global future supplier of strategic critical minerals outside of China. 


Finniss lithium restart project, Australia – update
Finniss lithium restart project, Australia – update
4th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Core Lithium is advancing its restart study for the operation. 


Mining under way at the Kasiya rutile/graphite project
Kasiya rutile/graphite project, Malawi – update
4th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Developer of mineral resource projects in Malawi Sovereign Metals has received firm commitments for a placement of 47.06-million new fully paid ordinary shares to raise gross proceeds of... 


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SABS investigation continues amid unsettling allegations of mismanagement
4th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Ever since allegations of corruption and mismanagement against State-owned entity the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) started to surface late last year, the organisation has been under... 


Image of Moma titanium operation
Moma titanium mine – WCP A upgrade and transition project, Mozambique – update
4th April 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The project contractor is advancing the fabrication of the two new dredges. 


Kiniero overview showing completed mill foundations and CIL tanks
Robex progresses Kiniero toward first gold pour in the fourth quarter
3rd April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

West African gold producer and developer Robex Resources says it is on track to deliver first gold at its Kiniero gold project, in Guinea, in the fourth quarter of this calendar year. TSX-V-listed... 


The Longonjo project site
Longonjo ore reserve grade increases as project development progresses
2nd April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

London-listed Pensana has reported that the updated Joint Ore Reserve Committee- (Jorc-) compliant ore reserve grade for its Longonjo rare earth project, in Angola, has increased to 3.04% total... 


Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane
DA to lay criminal charges against Thembi Simelane
31st March 2025

The Democratic Alliance will now lay criminal charges against Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane after she was named in a News24 investigation involving Eskom and contractor Vitrovian,... 


An artist’s impression of the ExoMars lander touching down on Mars
Airbus to build lander to carry European Space Agency’s rover to the Martian surface
31st March 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

Airbus Defence and Space has been chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) and mission prime industrial contractor Thales Alenia Space (TAS – a JV between Thales and Leonardo) to design and build... 


Refined potash in hand
Kore targets construction at Kola on January 1 next year
31st March 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

With large projects in the mining industry often facing challenges in terms of cost and time overruns, UK-headquartered Kore Potash chairperson David Hathorn confirms that the company’s contracting... 


Matsa signs mining services deal for Devon Pit gold mine
Matsa signs mining services deal for Devon Pit gold mine
28th March 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Matsa Resources has executed a binding mining services agreement with Blue Cap Mining (BCM) for the development of the Devon Pit gold mine, in Matsa’s Lake Carey gold project in Western... 


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