News Archive

February 2017
08 Feb 2017
Recovery of 67.87 carat gem quality diamond at Gahcho Kué mine
Gahcho Kué mine has recovered a 67.87 ct gem quality octahedron diamond during production ramp-up....
08 Feb 2017
Zwane’s speech at Mining Indaba conciliatory towards the mining industry, says Deloitte
South Africa’s Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane’s opening address at the Mining Indaba in...
08 Feb 2017
Advisian’s optimisation tools aim to help the success of mining projects
In today’s world of constrained capital, clients in the mining sector are seeking ways to...
07 Feb 2017
CoalTech completes its first economically viable industrial plant using coal pelletising technology
CoalTech, an engineering company focussing on environmental solutions for the mining industry, and having initially...
07 Feb 2017
Redpath Mining South Africa and Stefanutti announce alliance
Redpath Mining (South Africa) and multidisciplinary construction group Stefanutti Stocks have entered into an alliance agreement....
07 Feb 2017
In African countries with less developed mining sectors, there remains huge potential
This is the opinion of Roskill, which reports that “in Mozambique, for example, the extractive...
07 Feb 2017
Pakistan Government chooses Fugro for extensive minerals exploration in Punjab
Fugro has been awarded a multi-million Euro contract for the exploration of minerals in Pakistan....
07 Feb 2017
Metal accounting is of growing importance
Derick de Wit, Associate Director, and Garth Marshall, Manager, Venmyn Deloitte note that “metal accounting...
06 Feb 2017
Madagascar ‘Mining Business Centre’ to be built in Antananarivo
The Bureau du Cadastre Minier de Madagascar, also known as BCMM, will be in Cape...
06 Feb 2017
US minerals import reliance reaches record level in 2017, underscoring the need for permitting reform, improved land access
With the prospect growing of a major infrastructure build out and renewed emphasis on domestic...
06 Feb 2017
Value creation and local development – linkages, investment and diversification in mining
The Africa Mining Vision is the guiding continental compass working towards structural reforms that are...
06 Feb 2017
Peace River Arch lithium project and an introduction to lithium brines
Alan Brent Hemingway, an exploration/consulting geologist writes: “the current global transportation situation is similar in...