Smart technologies supporting safe underground mining
Maptek sensing hardware combines with powerful modelling software to deliver a safe, accurate solution for geological mapping and geotechnical analysis. Photo by Maptek Edited by Leon Louw Underground mines rely on smart technologies [...]
Enhancing Water Sustainability
Supplied by AECI WATER The growing focus on the identification and use of alternative water sources to bridge South Africa’s forecasted 17% gap in drinking water supply by 2030, has driven water treatment specialist AECI [...]
Blasting progress accelerated by digital technology
Omnia Holdings - BME Operations Kalalushi Mine Zambia With over four decades of successful innovation fuelling its growth, South Africa-based blasting, and explosives company BME continues to leverage digital technology in advancing its [...]
MTE meets the challenge
MTE Exhibitions got their 2021 campaign underway in the Emalahleni Coalfields of Mpumalanga on Wednesday 21 April 2021. This was the first time the MTE team had ventured outside their office building since December last [...]
Where are the SA juniors?
A junior miner in Mpumalanga. Covid-19, regulatory constraints and a lack of funding has resulted in several mining operations being mothballed in South Africa. Photo by ©Leon Louw For a world-renowned mining country, [...]
Rigs step into the future
Edited by Leon Louw African Mining recently visited equipment manufacturer Rosond’s head office in Midrand to have a look at the drilling rigs on the way to Anglo American’s Kumba Iron Ore mines in the [...]