Modern Mining January 2016

MINING News

South Africa to host Geological Congress

will depart from Cape Town and will arrive at Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) seven days later. En route there will be geological and general interest day excursions to a variety of sites in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Further details are available from web- site www.35IGC.org . 

South Africa will be hosting the 35th‘World Cup of Geosciences’ in 2016, the presti- gious International Geological Congress (IGC), which is generally regarded as the most important activity of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The South African event – which is expected to attract several thousand delegates – will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 27 August to 4 September 2016. The Council for Geoscience, together with the Geological Society of South Africa and other collaborators from academia and industry, is currently spearheading the preparations for the 35th IGC in South Africa. The objectives of the IGC are as follows:  Contribute, in collaboration with and under the sponsorship of the IUGS, to the advancement of fundamental and applied research in the geological sciences.  Provide a general assembly of geo-

scientists, spanning a wide range of geoscience disciplines, where ideas and information can be freely exchanged.  Emphasise the geological specialities or challenges of the host country or region.  Provide the opportunity, by way of geological excursions, to examine geo- logical problems and features in the field. Only two of these prestigious confer- ences have been held in Africa before. The first was hosted by South Africa in Pretoria in 1929 and was instrumental in advanc- ing the study of geology and the earth sciences in South Africa and on the conti- nent. The other was held in Algeria in 1952. Delegates will have the opportunity to participate in a number of pre-congress and post-congress field trips, many of them into Africa. One of the ‘flagship’ field trips will be ‘The Great Southern African Train Geo-Safari’. Directly after the con- gress, the luxury Shongololo Express train

Bauba halts operations at Moeijelijk chrome mine Bauba Platinum says the last quarter of 2015 saw the market price of chrome ore experi- ence severe pressure with the price dropping from US$175 to US$120 per tonne. The adverse changes in the chrome ore market, specifically those pertaining to price, have resulted in the company’s chrome proj- ect becoming financially unviable at present. As a result, the board of directors of Bauba has decided to cease current operations and place the Moeijelijk mine under care-and-mainte- nance with effect from 11 January 2016. The mine is located on the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Complex. 

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