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 [...]

The Innovation Fund, through its Technology Advancement Programme (TAP), invites all South Africans (inventors, techno-entrepreneurs, engineers and researchers), who are engaged in the research and development of novel and inventive technologies, to submit their proposals.
The investment sought must be for research and development, resulting in a working prototype or similar, which is ready for commercialisation. [...]

When you look at the Health and Safety statistics of any organisation, you will probably find that contractors are responsible for the majority of incidents recorded in a year.
The problem in general is that the emerging contractor knows very little about Health and Safety. This lack of knowledge leads to incidents because the proper steps [...]

Johannesburg, March 03, 2009 — Moody’s Investors Service has today downgraded The New Reclamation Group (Pty) Ltd’s (“Reclam”) Corporate Family Rating (CFR) and Probability of Default Rating to Caa1 from B3.
Moody’s also lowered the rating on the EUR 253m Senior Secured Notes due 2013 to Caa1 from B3. The outlook on all ratings remains negative.
The [...]

Australian iron ore company Cape Lambert has reached an agreement with Marampa Iron Ore Limited, a subsidiary of African Minerals, to increase its investment in Marampa, the holder of the Marampa Iron Ore Project in Sierra Leone to approximately 35%.
The consideration payable by Cape Lambert for its increased investment in Marampa is the issue of 17 million fully paid [...]

 
Rio Tinto’s subsidiary, Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, has begun production of ilmenite at its QMM mineral sands operation at Fort Dauphin in Madagascar.
The development (owned 80 per cent by Rio Tinto and 20 per cent by the Madagascar government) began as an exploration project in the 1980s and is the second largest investment on the island. Ilmenite from [...]

Chromex Mining, the AIM listed dedicated chrome company, announced today that it has finalised plans to construct a new processing facility at its Stellite chrome mine (‘Stellite’) on the Western limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa.   The plant, which is expected to be commissioned at the end of April 2009 for a cost of approximately ZAR 22 million (GBP 1.5 million), has been designed to process circa 40,000 tonnes per month run of mine ore.  When operational, it will [...]

Atlas Iron Limited is pleased to announce a new direct shipping iron ore (DSO) discovery in the first drill holes completed at Wodgina (Atlas 100% Fe rights) located 100 kilometres south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Recently received intersections include:
50 metres at 58.6% Fe 0.12 % P, 4.98% SiO2 and 1.58% Al2O3 from [...]

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