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Condition monitoring specialist company, WearCheck, has brought their sister company, Set Point Water Laboratories into the fold, adding a new division to WearCheck’s scientific testing structure. The water analysis company is now integrated fully into WearCheck, and forms yet another area of expertise along with WearCheck’s other services, which include …

THE Economic and Social Justice Trust (ESJT) claim that any disturbance of the seabed by marine phosphate mining will present a severe threat to the fragile Benguela marine ecosystem. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the trust has called on the government to put an end to all proposed marine …

Initial assay results from a lithium and tantalum drilling program at AfriTin Mining’s Uis mine in Namibia have exceeded the company’s expectations, according to CEO Anthony Viljoen. He goes on to say that the drilling results confirm the company’s belief that the Uis mine is home to one of the …

The Ministry of Mines and Energy has stated that the price of petrol would increase by N$2.50 per litre, while the price of diesel will increase by N$1.50 per litre, effective June 1. This means that across the country, the new fuel price will be N$20.40 per litre and N$21.43 …

Last week, when world leaders convened in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Namibian government reported on progress with Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, Namibia’s first large-scale vertically integrated green hydrogen project (Hyphen). The Namibian Government conceived the Tsau /Khaeb National Park Southern Corridor Development Initiative (SCDI) Hydrogen Project …

Namibia’s finance minister said uranium miners are waiting for prices to recover before restarting projects in the continent’s largest producer of the ore, which is needed for nuclear power in a world moving away from fossil fuels. According to Finance Minister Ipumbu Shiimi, the semi-arid southwest African nation is investing …

The Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) and Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) have confirmed a loan of about N$2.6 billion for TransNamib. According to DBN, the loan will be used for remanufacturing of rolling stock, acquisition of new rolling stock, modernisation of the TransNamib Workshop, upgrading of signalling equipment, …

The Hexagon’s Mining division has strengthened its leadership in production material monitoring and measurement by introducing HxGN MineMeasure Detect, a 3D camera hardware, software and data solution. MineMeasure Detect enables real-time optimization for plant production with automated digital-image analysis offering continuous, accurate and rapid measurement of oversize, volume, rock fragmentation …

Electra Mining Africa, the continent’s biggest exhibition, is back after a two year hiatus due to restrictions. As exhibitions and events are now re-opening globally, Electra Mining Africa will be going ahead as a live in-person event this year. This comes on the backdrop of several other exhibitions, having taken …

Instrotech is now offering OPTRIS PI 1M IR camera, especially suited to measuring the temperature of metals, as these exhibit a distinctly higher emissivity at the short measurement wavelength of 1μm than at measurements in the previously conventional wavelength range of 8 – 14 μm. According to the manufacturer, the …