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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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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... 


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Kanmantoo underground project – Stage 1, Australia – update
12th January 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

The first stope blast at Kanmantoo has been completed. 


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Bakubung Platinum Mine project, South Africa – update
25th August 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

The mine has successfully reopened and resumed activities.  


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Bakubung Platinum Mine project, South Africa – update
9th June 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

Wesizwe announced on June 2 that, owing to faults in the ring gear of the ball mill and the feeding mixing tanks of the tailing filter press, the hot commissioning process at Bakubung could not... 


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Bakubung Platinum Mine project, South Africa – update
2nd June 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

Wesizwe Platinum has started the commissioning of the mine's processing plant. 


Master Drilling posts record revenue, focuses on new technology development
28th March 2023 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Drilling solutions company Master Drilling has posted record revenue of $226-million for the year ended December 31, 2022 – a 31.7% year-on-year increase. CEO Danie Pretorius attributes the strong... 


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Vares silver project, Bosnia and Herzegovina – update
14th January 2022 By: Sheila Barradas

Adriatic Metals has completed a debt financing package with Orion Resource Partners as part of its funding solution to develop the Vares silver project. 


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Vares silver project, Bosnia and Herzegovina
8th October 2021 By: Sheila Barradas

A definitive feasibility study has shown the exceptional potential of the project. 


Gwalia issues affect St Barbara's bottom line
Gwalia issues affect St Barbara's bottom line
21st October 2020 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Gold miner St Barbara has seen gold production fall in the September quarter as the Gwalia project, in Western Australia, dealt with a seismic event and shift in the mine plan. Gold production... 


Bakubung Platinum Mine project, South Africa – update
Bakubung Platinum Mine project, South Africa – update
9th October 2020 By: Sheila Barradas

Wesizwe Platinum’s Bakubung platinum mine development has been delayed. 


Venetia underground project, South Africa – update
Venetia underground project, South Africa – update
9th October 2020 By: Sheila Barradas

The openpit is expected to cease production in the first half of 2022. 


Curves on the hard rock 9 ° inclination of the declining cutting face at Eland mine.
Master Drilling aligning with opencast mines going underground in changing world
11th September 2020 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa-based drilling company Master Drilling, which is active in 23 countries, is aligning itself with the transitioning global requirement of opencast mines going underground. “As the world... 


Curves on the hard rock 9 ° inclination of the declining cutting face at Eland mine.
Master Drilling aligning with opencast mines going underground in changing world
26th August 2020 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa-based drilling company Master Drilling, which is active in 23 countries, is aligning itself with the transitioning global requirement of opencast mines going underground. “As the world... 


Marmato underground gold expansion project, Colombia
Marmato underground gold expansion project, Colombia
10th July 2020 By: Sheila Barradas

A prefeasibility study has affirmed the economic viability of the underground expansion of the project. 


Capstone says it can weather price slump without delaying 2021 growth targets
Capstone says it can weather price slump without delaying 2021 growth targets
30th April 2020 By: Mariaan Webb

The "quick mitigation measures" that TSX-listed Capstone Mining implemented have positioned the copper miner to weather the current low price environment, without delaying its 2021 growth targets,... 


Venetia underground project, South Africa
Venetia underground project, South Africa
20th March 2020 By: Sheila Barradas

De Beers Group Managed Operations is building a new underground mining operation beneath the current operating openpit.  


Venetia underground project, South Africa
Venetia underground project, South Africa
20th December 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

High-performance crushing and materials handling equipment is set to be delivered to the Venetia mine. 


Venetia underground project, South Africa
Venetia underground project, South Africa
18th October 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

De Beers Consolidated Mines has reported that the production shaft at Venetia reached 1 023 m on September 4. 


Venetia Underground on track to start production in 2021
Venetia Underground on track to start production in 2021
11th October 2019 By: Nadine James

The $2-billion Venetia Diamond Mine Underground project remains on track and within budget to achieve first production in 2021. At steady-state production, 5.9-million tonnes of ore will be treated... 


Venetia Underground on track to start production in 2021
Venetia Underground on track to start production in 2021
11th October 2019 By: Nadine James

The $2-billion Venetia Diamond Mine Underground project remains on track and within budget to achieve first production in 2021. At steady-state production, 5.9-million tonnes of ore will be treated... 


Mimosa mine, Zimbabwe
Mimosa mine, Zimbabwe
20th September 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

A platinum group metals mine in the Wedza subchamber of the Great Dyke, in Zimbabwe. 


Stillwater and East Boulder mines, US
Stillwater and East Boulder mines, US
6th September 2019 By: Sheila Barradas

The Stillwater and East Boulder mines are located near the towns of Nye and McLeod in Montana, in the US. 


Master Drilling CEO Danie Pretorius
Master Drilling’s full year performance underpinned by Americas, Europe success
26th March 2019 By: Marleny Arnoldi

JSE-listed Master Drilling expanded its operations to Canada, Turkey, Ghana and Italy and saw growth in Brazil and Mexico during the financial year ended December 31, 2018. This helped to offset... 


Master Drilling CEO Danie Pretorius
South Africa’s Master Drilling expands into India, Australia
1st November 2017 By: Martin Creamer

Raise bore drilling company Master Drilling on Wednesday announced its expansion into India, where it will support a zinc mine, and Australia, where it will support a gold project. The Johannesburg... 


DRILLING WORK Redpath Mining's Redbore 90EX is being to raisebore the shafts at energy and chemicals company Sasol’s Impumelelo coal mine
Largest-diameter hole reamed in Africa – contractor
14th July 2017

The reaming phase of a 7.3-m-diameter hole at South African integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol’s Impumelelo coal mine, in Mpumulanga, has been completed, setting an African record for... 


HORIZONTAL RAISE BORING Horizontal raise boring is a developing technology with potentially faster production advances and is consistently more stable than traditional drill and blast
Horizontal raiseboring at Cullinan mine outperforms traditional methods
21st October 2016 By: Ilan Solomons

Raise boring and drilling services group Master Drilling is nearing completion of a 220 m hole with a diameter of 4.5 m horizontal raise bore (HRB) trial project at Southern Africa-focused miner... 


Earthmoving and excavation method used for ventilation
18th October 2013

Engineering contracting and construction services company Murray & Roberts Cementation has taken an unconventional approach to a project that will see the establishment of two ventilation shafts at... 


Master Drilling to expand into vertical shaft boring
7th January 2013 By: Idéle Esterhuizen

Global drilling services provider Master Drilling was planning to expand into the vertical shaft boring business, MD Danie Pretorius has indicated. He told Mining Weekly Online that the company was... 


Master Drilling considering three acquisitions
7th January 2013 By: Idéle Esterhuizen

Global drilling services provider Master Drilling Group, which listed on the JSE in December, was currently considering three acquisitions, one of which was likely to materialise over the next... 


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