Royal Bafokeng Platinum has outlined a plan that could result in it hitting the ground running with a surfeit of mining flexibility in an improved platinum market. 

As at the end of June 2015, the project had reached an overall completion of 58%. 

Construction of the Venetia underground mine is 18% completed. 

The Shondoni mine is currently about 63% complete. 

The project is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2015. 

Gold Fields has reported that the South Deep mine was pushed to “its low point” in 2014. 

The development at the Mupfuti mine is on schedule to reach design production in early 2015. 

Royal Bafokeng Platinum’s ongoing Styldrift I expansion project is more than two months behind schedule. 

A landmark project currently being undertaken by mining equipment manufacturer Sandvik Mining Systems is the overland conveyor for Sasol Mining at its Shondoni shaft in Secunda. When completed it... 

Gold Fields has managed to improve the performance of South Deep – its only remaining South African mine. 

DiamondCorp subsidiary Lace Diamond Mines has signed a diamond beneficiation joint venture agreement with Johannesburg cutting and polishing factory Distinctive Choice. 

Eskom has reported that the concrete lining in the tailrace tunnel is 93% complete, cavity grouting is 19% complete and consolidation grouting is 19% complete. 

JSE-listed DiamondCorp subsidiary Lace Diamond Mines (LDM) has signed a diamond beneficiation joint venture (JV) agreement with Johannesburg cutting and polishing factory Distinctive Choice. Under... 

Stainless steel, specialist alloys and valve supplier Energy Engineered Products (EEP) says that, since establishing the new Energy Bolts fastener division at its head office in Kyalami,... 

Safer production in mining can be achieved by integrating into one’s business and “living” one’s environmental, health and safety (EHS) management policy, says mining equipment and service provider... 

A modern computer numerically controlled (CNC) turning machine must be productive, flexible and easy to operate, says local machine tools distributor Retecon MD Hans-Peter Neth. He tells... 

Tooling, materials technology, mining and construction engineering group Sandvik Construction, a division of Sandvik Group, for the first time in Africa launched its Sandvik CH550 cone crusher,... 

Crushing and screening equipment supplier Pilot Crushtec launched a fleet of seven new products that are new to South Africa at the inaugural bauma Africa trade fair, which was held from September... 

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has confrimed that it has procured a R140-million general bulk ship-loader for the Port of Richards Bay. Engineering company Sandvik managed the procurement of the...