CoAL Q3 output down on flooding, Matola derailment

Run-of-mine (RoM) coal production for Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) decreased from 1.15-million tonnes in the second quarter of the 2013 financial year to 911 563 t in the third quarter, as a result of the depletion of the Vuna Colliery resource,...

THE CAKES THAT MINING BAKED

During the past six years, the Sishen Iron Ore Company Community Development Trust has uplifted the lives of near-mine communities in the Northern Cape and Limpopo provinces. The benefits of one of its 128 development initiatives is this...

Giyani Gold eyes JSE and TSX-V dual listing

TSX-V-listed Giyani Gold on Friday said it had appointed a South African advisory firm to act as transactional sponsor for Giyani to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Giyani executive chairperson Duane Parnham said listing on the JSE...

05/04/2013 (On-The-Air)

The US’s new clean-energy centre in Johannesburg is a shot in the arm for renewable energy in Africa; The production lines for South Africa’s joint missile project with Brazil are beginning to take shape; and The confirmation of coking coal at...

Coking coal bonanza, gold miner buys coal, coal funding quest

Makhado has hard coking coal, gold miner Village has bought into thermal coal company Continental and Resgen is mulling alternative funding for its Boikarabelo coal project.

Hard coking coal bonanza at Makhado - CoAL

The coal that is to be produced at South Africa-focused Coal of Africa’s (CoAL’s) Makhado project in South Africa’s Limpopo province has the potential to be a world-class hard coking coal product, independent coal consultant Wood Mackenzie...

22/02/2013 (On-The-Air)

South Africa needs to keep on encouraging large companies like De Beers, which is prepared to invest R20-billion in the country during trying times; The African Union’s ambitious $360-billion cross-border infrastructure plan is lacking project...

Clean coal a must, cutters want diamonds, mine using solar power

Carbon capture and storage is a must if global temperature is to be limited to a 2 °C-only rise by 2020; more diamonds should be made available for local cutting; and a chrome mine in South Africa’s Limpopo province is using solar power.

R20bn Venetia diamond project given thumbs up

A new underground mine is to be built beneath De Beers’ currently operating openpit Venetia mine, South Africa’s largest diamond mine located in South Africa’s northerly Limpopo province. The Anglo American-controlled De Beers announced...

African diamond mine adds sparkle to company’s future prospects

The vision of TSX-V-listed Diamcor Mining to become a key supplier of high-quality diamonds to industry leaders is moving closer to reality with the imminent completion of final work at its Krone-Endora at Venetia project in South Africa’s...

Limpopo mine drawing power from 1 MW solar plant

A 1 MW off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) facility has officially been integrated into the electricity supply system at Cronimet’s chrome mine, in South Africa’s Limpopo province. The mine, which forms part of a larger international enterprise...

Ivanplats to mine platinum, manufacture in Bushveld

Beneficiation would be the key driver of Ivanplats' proposed new platinum mine in South Africa where platinum-product manufacturing would take place together with mining, Ivanhoe chairperson Robert Friedland said on Wednesday. Ivanplats, which...