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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 …

The world’s largest and most advanced diamond exploration and sampling vessel, the mv SS Nujoma, is ready to start operating for Debmarine Namibia. The US$157 million vessel will enable Debmarine Namibia, a 50/50 joint venture between the Government of the Republic of Namibia and De Beers Group, to explore diamond …

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 …

WearCheck has launched an interactive customer application to improve customers’ benefits. According to the oil condition monitoring company the app allows customers to make virtually instantaneous maintenance decisions. Neil Robinson WearCheck, Managing Director says the ground-breaking, highly innovative and revolutionary app has reliable data available while patrolling the factory floor …

PwC Africa’s 14th edition of PwC’s industry series analysing financial performance and global trends – PwC’s Mine 2017 report has painted a positive outlook for the mining industry. This comes at the backdrop of bolstered balance sheets and a return to profitability in 2016, giving mining companies much-needed space to …

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 …