2019 – Issue 12
Battery metals
Triton Minerals: Showcasing Mozambique’s graphite potential
Triton Minerals may become one of the hottest graphite investments in Africa. Construction at its graphite project is scheduled to start in April 2020.
Gold
Far West Gold Recoveries solidifies sustainability for DRDGOLD
DRDGOLD has built a robust business model and has a sound understanding of how to mitigate current and anticipated challenges.
Base Metals
AfriTin: resurrecting Uis in Namibia
AfriTin has made remarkable progress, with 2019 being highly eventful following first production of tin concentrate in August 2019.
Health and safety
Embracing Industrie 4.0 and the ongoing need to digitise
Fact: The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industrie 4.0) is not coming to mining in Africa – it’s already here – and in 2019...
Battery metals
Commodity prices: Gold shone brightest in 2019
For the first time in more than a decade, palladium is rivalling gold in value, but gold, in itself, has also performed particularly well in 2019.
Energy
Positive moves towards legislative certainty in South Africa
2019 was the year in which some certainty returned to the South African mining industry with significant progress made by the DMRE.
Investment
Three topics for discussion at Mining Indaba 2020
Millennials and the mining industry, the impending scarcity of battery metals and the impending scarcity of battery metals - Mining Indaba 2020.
Magazine Articles
Epiroc: Setting the standard in loader automation
Scooptram Automation Total available from Epiroc offers one of the highest levels of loader automation bringing new standards of productivity.
Gold
DetNet boosts Wit’s research and teaching on blasting
A smart blasting system was officially handed over to the Wits Mining Institute (WMI) in November 2019 by electronic blast initiation specialists, DetNet.
Health and safety
South African PPE innovator develops spine protection gear
Current protective gear includes helmets, safety boots, overalls, and goggles, but none of these offer support to the spine, shoulders, ribs, or kidneys.
