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MINING EQUIPMENT
Companies combine forces in surface mining equipment data initiative
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Business intelligence supplier IntierraRMG and mining market research organisation The Parker Bay Company have aligned to provide Parker Bay’s Mobile Mining Equipment Database with information on surface mining equipment. The database contains...
By: Leandi Kolver
26th April 2013
Education & Training
Ergo Business Development Academy to cease trading under Ergo Mining banner
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As of July 1, the Ergo Business Development Academy (EBDA), founded by South African gold mining company DRDGold subsidiary Ergo in 2009 as a social and labour plan project, will trade as a separate entity, says EBDA manager Piet Pistorius. While...
By: Leandi Kolver
26th April 2013
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
Fracking proponents, opponents agree on need for exploration to determine size of Karoo shale resource
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Gas industry stakeholders promoting and discouraging the exploiting of shale gas reserves in the Karoo basin reached a consensus at Gas Week 2013 – exploration needs to go ahead to conclusively determine whether the 485 tcf of technically...
By: Samantha Moolman
26th April 2013
FLUID TRANSMISSION
Incledon reports continued sales growth despite mining-sector volatility
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Despite the recent volatility in the local mining sector, fluid conveyance and solutions provider Incledon has consistently gained measurable market share in mining operations across South Africa through increased sales volumes.
26th April 2013
JUNIOR MINERS
Lack of funding, overregulation among factors stymying junior miners
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Funding and government overregulation of the mining industry are two of the most significant factors that are currently playing a role in the hampering of the junior mining sector’s project growth and development in South Africa, says Sephaku...
26th April 2013
HEALTH & SAFETY
Prevalence of silicosis among SA black miners ‘hidden’ for over a century
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South Africa’s gold mines became renowned for mine safety in the 1900s while the mounting rate of silicosis among black mineworkers lay hidden. In his book ‘South Africa’s Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis’ Professor Jock McCulloch...
By: Leandi Kolver
26th April 2013
MINING & THE ENVIRONMENT
Return of macroinvertebrates in West Rand stream a sign impact of AMD has lessened
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Macro-invertebrates in the Tweelopiespruit, in the West Rand area, which was previously a sterile aquatic environment because of the severe impact of raw and untreated acid mine drainage (AMD), have returned for the first time in nearly three...
By: Anine Vermeulen
26th April 2013
HEALTH & SAFETY
Revised Wits course to equip leaders to better influence workers’ safety behaviour
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In the quest to achieve zero harm, the University of the Witwatersrand’s (Wits’s) Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry (CSMI) offers a course that will enable leaders across industries to better affect the behaviour of everyone in...
By: Leandi Kolver
26th April 2013
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Platinum price could soar beyond predicted $1... 
Harmony to use hard-fought R333m tax bonanza... 
Mine nationalisation absurd – union boss 
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