Africa

Air compressors used in industry are, for the most part, well-proven, reliable pieces of equipment, able to operate for years with relatively little maintenance. However, their very reliability can lead to problems when the quality of their intake air is neglected. “Many industrial air compressors work in very dusty conditions, …

Local women continue to champion in the mining industry and Metallurgist Emmarencia Shanglee is lucid evidence of the progress, in the male dominated industry. Shanglee who has worked for Namdeb for nine years, has gradually moved up the ranks and currently is a Assistant Plant Superintendent. In her educational background …

Debmarine’s much anticipated new diamond mining vessel, the SS Nujoma was inaugurated last week Thursday in Walvis Bay before departing for the seas offshore the southern Namib, after succesfully completing five months of sea trials. The ship has spent the better part of a year in and around the Cape …

Innovative international manufacturer of flow, pressure, level, and temperature measuring, Kobold has launched a plastic flow meter and a monitor – KSK and KSM models. According to Kobold the plastic flow meter works on the ‘suspended float’ measuring principle, where the float glides up and down in a conical measuring …

British miner has discovered a high quality 104.73 carat diamond and a 151.52 carat yellow diamond. The discovery from the company’s Letšeng mine in Lesotho follows recent recoveries announced in May of an exceptional 80.58 carat D-colour Type IIa diamond and a 98.42 carat D-colour Type IIa diamond, as well as …

Redpath Mining South Africa has recently completed reaming of a 7.3 m diameter hole at Sasol’s Impumelelo Mine, the largest diameter hole reamed to date in Africa Johan Davel, Redpath Mining General Manager of Raiseboring said the reaming performance of the Redbore 90EX surpassed the company’s expectations “Achieving optimal accuracy …

De Beers Group’s Forevermark diamond brand has inscribed its two millionth diamond. According to the group, the diamond is a 3.48 carat round brilliant and bears the unique inscription of ‘2,000,000’. “The diamond was mined, cut and polished in Namibia and inscribed at the Forevermark Diamond Institute in Surat, India. …

Partnership Africa Canada’s (PAC) first responsible and conflict free artisanal gold supply chain is now operational in Eastern Congo’s Just Gold project. The global leader in developing innovative approaches to strengthen natural resource governance said Just Gold project is the first to successfully trace conflict-free and legal artisanal gold from …

Otjikoto operation is fulfilling its purpose as B2Gold’s African dream asset after delivering record production volumes in 2016 – with similar expectations on the cards. Triple-listed international gold miner B2Gold Corp. (B2Gold) is celebrating record production volumes (and process plant recoveries) at its Namibia-based open cast Otjikoto operation – well …

Weatherly’s Ongopolo Mining Limited has rescheduled repayments for the various trenches of debt finances, extended to the company by Orion Mine Finance. The companies have agreed to defer repayment of Ongopolo’s Facility B loans to 30 June 2017 while the final maturity date remains unchanged at 29 February 2020, though …