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The manufacturer of heavy duty mining equipment GHH has launched a remarkable LHD. It comes with the biggest bucket and the best power rating, for highest operating slope angles, in the seven tonnes payload class. All that combined in a super low emission, super compact package. The GHH team are …

Tata International Africa has become the first company in Africa to introduce a best-in-class standard warranty of five years on its entire Medium, Heavy and Extra Heavy Commercial Vehicle range. This first-of-its-kind Pan African five-year warranty applies to the full range of Tata Trucks and Buses as well as Daewoo …

Omnia Group company BME says South Africa needs to do more to benefit from the looming demand peak in ‘green minerals. Ralf Hennecke, General Manager, Technology and Marketing at Omnia Group company BME said mines have been very successful in containing COVID-19 infections, allowing most operations to return to almost …

AfriTin has announced signing an inaugural offtake agreement with AfriMet Resources AG (“AfriMet”) for its future tantalum production, as well as an extension of its tin concentrate offtake agreement with an existing trading partner, Thailand Smelting and Refining Corporation (“Thaisarco”). AfriTin has concluded an offtake agreement with AfriMet, a strategic African commodity trading company. …

The De Beers Company is on its way towards becoming a carbon-neutral diamond miner and marketer. By 2030, carbon neutrality at its mines in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa, as well as in its other activities around the diamond pipeline around the world, is expected to be reached by …

The World Bank (WB) estimates, for instance, that production of minerals like graphite, lithium and cobalt could grow by 500 percent in the next three decades to meet demand for clean energy technologies. This comes on the backdrop that mining remains a vital part of a low-carbon future, a fact …

Chamber of Mines of Namibia is urging phosphate mining to begin as they believe that the potential socio-economic benefits that could be unlocked by the marine phosphate industry far outweigh the risk of causing significant environmental damage, which has delayed the development of phosphate projects in Namibia. “The COVID-19 pandemic …

Oslo-listed seismic company SeaBird Exploration is set to expand into seabed mining on the Norwegian continental shelf. The company aims to spin off and separately list its marine minerals business, Green Minerals, during the first quarter of 2021. “Strategically and operationally it makes sense to develop the marine minerals business …

Advanced field services, transformer chemistry testing, reliability solutions – these are some of the extra services offered by condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, in addition to traditional used oil analysis following recent expansion. The company’s advanced field services (AFS) division incorporates specialist monitoring techniques such as rope testing, technical compliance and …

Authorities at the Ministry of Mines and Energy has opted not to adjust fuel prices, despite the under-recoveries recorded over the past months However, its monthly fuel price review has concluded the need for an upward adjustment in local fuel pump prices due to the unfavorable exchange rate, for the …