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South African Coal Mining Holdings Increas Coal Mine Production


South African Coal Mining Holdings will increase capacities result of produce of coal-mine in mine region Ermelo, Mpuma-langa.
Improvement of capacities produce of this coal-mine expected able to increase goverment earnings of South African at mining sector, especially in coal mining sector
SACMH executive director Melanie Steyn states that the com- pany will be spending R400-mil-lion over [...]

Nigeria Expand and Develop Mineral Mine Exploration Make Regulation for Mining Exploration


Federal Government has identified seven minerals for national development, inister of Mines and Steel Development, Chief Sarafa Isola, said in Abuja yesterday.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the minerals were Gold, Lead/Zinc, Barite, Bitumen, Limestone, Coal and Iron Ore. Isola said that Nigeria was well-endowed with myriad of solid minerals, but that [...]

South Africa: Govt Identifies Uranium As ‘Strategic Mineral’ to Secure Nuclear Energy Supply


Government has identified uranium as a “strategic mineral” in securing nuclear energy supply in South Africa.
Addressing the media today on government’s programme of action as part of the economic cluster, Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said nuclear energy will continue to form a central plank of government’s energy strategy.

ata wants to mine South Africa’s chrome, manganese, coal and iron-ore


A new Indian force is about to enter the South African mining industry.
Indian diversified industrial giant Tata has announced that its sub-sidiary, Tata Steel, is investigatingopportunities to mine chrome, manganese, coal and iron-ore in South Africa.
The announcement was made at the official inauguration of theconstruction of Tata Steel’s R670-million high-carbon ferrochrome plant in the port [...]

$50m diamond technology park to be built in Botswana


South African Diamond Corpo-ration (Safdico) would espouse the hitech model and spurn the ‘sweat-shop’ approach in the oper-ation of its $50-million diamond technology park in Botswana, where construction is scheduled to begin in August.
Safdico CEO Brian Gutkin, who conceptualised the diamond technology park, told Mining Weekly in an exclusive interview that the park was being [...]