SACEEC talks local excellence in exports
By Sharyn Macnamara When it comes to exporting capital equipment and machinery and equipment or capital projects in mining, the South African Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC) should be a first port of call for [...]
Mining in SA – the good, the bad and the ugly Part 1: is the grass greener on the other side?
South Africa is still a mining friendly enough jurisdiction where one can generate returns. Image credit: ©Andrew Macnamara, Mining and Technical Exhibitions (MTE) By Sharyn Macnamara The 2022 Joburg Indaba held early October [...]
Electra Mining Africa 2022 re-ignites mining in southern Africa
Compiled by Sharyn Macnamara The pulse of mining minds, technology, innovation and business drive was almost tangible when southern Africa’s biggest mining, electrical, automation, manufacturing, power and transport trade exhibition hit Johannesburg from 5 September [...]
Corrosive crime, a broken society and human tragedy
Image credit: Markus Spiske | Unsplash Supplied by an independent source The horrific gang rape of eight women near Krugersdorp at the end of July has pushed illegal mining and associated crime to [...]
Digitalisation in Mining: PART 2 – The Digital Twin
By Sharyn Macnamara In the second article of African Mining’s series on Digitalisation in Mining, Sharyn Macnamara interviews Willem Daling, executive director of operations at 4Sight Asset Simulation – 4Sight Holdings being a multi-national technology [...]
Junior Mining: What will it take to develop at a faster pace in Africa
Junior Miners in Africa are unique. This mining sector is faced with extraordinary Afrocentric challenges and frustrations such as political instability, policy uncertainty, lack of funding and massive infrastructure shortfalls, to name but a few. [...]