Eskom and BHP Billiton today announced that they have reached agreement on an amended power supply contract for the Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique. Discussions relating to the contracts for the supply of electricity to the Hillside and Bayside smelters in South Africa will continue over the coming months with the intention of concluding binding [...]

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Ferronews.com readers are able to receive a  5% discounted rate to attend a labour seminar by leading legal practitioner Ivan Israelstam for his seminar on 23 July 2010 in Johannesburg.
Details of the seminar are as below. Cost for the day is R1767 incl. VAT excluding any discounts.

Rio Tinto is expanding its Mine of the Future™ programme to develop new equipment and systems for deep underground mines and has selected three partners to work on the project. Aker Wirth and Atlas Copco will individually work with Rio Tinto to develop two new tunneling concepts and Herrenknecht will work with the Group on [...]

An exciting new competition for small business owners has been launched under the title of “Punk Your SME!”. The competition will invite South African small  business owners to motivate why their business deserves to be “punked” and receive a shot in the arm to raise their profile.

African Eagle Resources plc has signed a Letter of Intent for an option and joint venture with SAFINA a.s. of the Czech Republic and its subsidiary Tanzania Precious Metals Refinery Limited (TPMRL), over the Ngasamo licence, adjacent to the Dutwa nickel laterite project in Tanzania.
Under the agreement, African Eagle can earn an interest of up to [...]

Jubilee and Mintek are pleased to announce the successful completion of the development programme for the ConRoast Smelting Process. In March 2010 the  demonstration DC-arc furnace passed the significant milestone of smelting 50 000 tons of material containing platinum group metals (“PGM”) as part of thedevelopment of ConRoast.

Braemore Resources plc confirms the occurrence of an operational incident at a furnace at Mintek’s ConRoast smelting facility in Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday, 27 March. A full enquiry will be completed; however preliminary investigations suggest superficial damage to the plant and minimal impact on production. Safety procedures were strictly adhered to and no personnel [...]

The idea of moving into China has much appeal for South African firms. However getting your head around the market is tough and many local firms would do well to learn from some of the experiences from the team over at Cadac who have successfully implemented China into their supply chain.
Cadac, an iconic South African brand will be [...]

Local steel producers, to a large extent, held their own in 2009 despite of a number of them reporting down¬sizing and other survival measures. The severe downturn in the global economy was cushioned by the special circumstances regarding the construction of power stations and government’s low-cost housing and infrastructure spending.

Local Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution provider, UMT Project and Portfolio Management Services South Africa (UMT Consulting SA), has announced that there is an early adoption of a risk management framework on mining project life cycles. The company developed integrated risk management methodologies (IRM) to implement risk management in these specific industries.