Modern Mining February 2015

EVENTS

goods and services (as opposed to mining and exploration companies) were much in evidence with some delegates complaining to Modern Mining that the character of the trade show was inexorably changing year by year, and not nec- essarily for the better. Overall, however, most delegates and exhibitors seemed reasonably happy with the event and its status as Africa’s leading mining show and a mandatory meet- ing place for Africa’s mining industry is clearly under no immediate threat. Photos (unless otherwise acknowledged) courtesy of Mining Indaba™

characterised this as “a much more difficult nut to crack” but told delegates that Amplats had a number of projects underway at its operations. “A number of these are collaboration proj- ects between Amplats, Impala and Joy Global for activated disk cutting in stoping, and Amplats and Atlas Copco for a reef borer, and Amplats and Sandvik for compression cutting in stoping,” he elaborated. “These projects are all underground and on trial. Also with Atlas Copco we are developing a machine that uses disk cutting for high rate access tunnels. This trial machine will be available for testing at Twickenham mine in the latter party of 2015.” Summing up One could write pages on the pluses and minuses of this year’s Mining Indaba but suffice it to say that the content (in terms of presen- tations) was of a very high quality and fully comparable with previous years. The organ- isation was excellent (and probably superior to previous events) but attendance – a figure of around 6 750 was given to Modern Mining by the organisers – showed no year-on-year growth. In the exhibition area, suppliers of Using genuine Cat ® parts could have kept me open for business I know I can trust Cat machines to deliver on time, all the time. Using genuine Cat parts is definitely the only way to go. No matter what challenges lie ahead, Caterpillar and Barloworld Equipment are committed to bringing you machines, solutions and support to help my business keep pushing forward. Making your business more profitable and efficient. We’re built to make that happen.

Vedanta assembles team for Gamsberg project Ivanhoe’s Kipushi project is not the only major zinc develop- ment planned in Southern Africa. Another is the Gamsberg project of Vedanta Resources, which will see the development of an open- pit zinc mine near Aggeneys in the Northern Cape. Construction of phase one will start this year and deliver a 4,4 Mt/a ROM project but Vedanta is eventually targeting a ‘mega pit’with a capacity of 10 Mt/a ROM. The project was described by Vedanta’s CEO, Tom Albanese, who said the current focus was on put- ting together a world-class project team to drive delivery. As he said, “Given the excess capacity in the market, we see an opportunity to recruit the best skills.” 

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