Bearing and seal manufacturing company, SKF has extended the passenger train wheelset maintenance intervals with the launch of its new SKF Passenger bearing 1.7 Mkm Cylindrical Roller bearing Unit (CRU). Launched at this year’s InnoTrans 2018...
More than half of South Africa’s core coal plants are running low on fuel, with at least four holding less than 10 days of supply, and the country’s power utility plans on trucking and railing emergency stocks as far as 400 kilometers....
Day two of Electra Mining Africa focused on the launch of new technology and innovations at the show. More than 60 products were reviewed across three categories. Kal Tire’s Gravity Assist System (GAS) received top honours in the category of...
Labour groups representing more than 60 percent of workers at AngloGold Ashanti, a major South African gold producer, signed a three-year wage deal with the company. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, UASA and Solidarity unions...
Experts from the National Environment Management Council (NEMC) and Government Chief Chemist are analysing samples collected from water bodies, farms, wild plants and sand suspected to be contaminated by effluents from Acacia North Mara mine. The...
Leveraging digital technology could be key to participating in the next wave of economic growth. This is according to Zest WEG Group who believe that at the very least, using it will allow mines, process plants and other industrial operations to...
Government launched the Mandela Mining Precinct on Friday to support local innovation to provide technological solutions to the challenges faced by the mining industry in South Africa. Named after South Africa’s first democratically-elected...
Platinum prices are languishing near the lowest in a decade, but the biggest miners are barely cutting production. Although about half of South African output is estimated to be unprofitable, few companies are reducing production by a meaningful...
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest commodities miners, has written to Angola’s government requesting permission to explore three areas for base metals, the country’s mineral resources ministry said on Friday. London-listed Anglo, which...
