Modern Mining January 2019

MODERN M I N I N G

CONTENTS

JANUARY 2019

ARTICLES

COVER 20 WorleyParsons puts the power of data to work EVENTS 25 Mining Indaba turns 25 FEATURE  AFRICA’S TOP MINING PROJECTS 29 Introduction 30 New Cullinan plant starts to deliver major savings 44 VUP on course to start delivering ore in 2021 48 Gamsberg in production and poised for expansion 56 Green for go at Nokeng fluorspar 60 Asanko’s Project 5 Million meets its target and more REGULARS MINING NEWS 6 Shaft 1 of Platreef project reaches another milestone 7 Rainbow announces maiden resource for Gakara 8 Roxgold completes Bagassi South project 9 Wassa Underground drilling delivers positive results 10 Scoping study confirms“robust”first phase for Prieska 11 Oklo deploys four rigs at Malian gold projects 12 Balama achieves commercial production 13 Paladin examines optimisation of Langer Heinrich 14 Sublevel cave ore production starts at Syama 15 Galane Gold places orders for Galaxy upgrade 17 Lycopodium awarded Yaouré contract 18 Balama Central FS indicates“outstanding returns” 18 New Mothae plant recovers 78-carat white diamond 19 Sampling programme by Orca identifies large anomaly PRODUCT NEWS 66 Innovative sand washing plant from CDE 67 Chromium carbide plate provides“ideal”wear solution 68 Thin-skin liner stabilises Tweefontein highwall 68 Black Mountain Mining selects OptiMine® 69 SANY excavator acquired for strip-mining contract 70 Weba technology combats dust 70 JCH Platforms raises the bar in access rental

Editor Arthur Tassell Advertising Manager Bennie Venter e-mail: benniev@crown.co.za Design & Layout

Darryl James Circulation Brenda Grossmann Publisher Karen Grant

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Cover A processing plant designed by engineering and project delivery groupWorleyParsons for a customer in the platinum mining sector. The digital capabilities of WorleyParsons are explained in our cover story on page 20 of this issue.

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71 Topless tower crane for Great Noligwa 72 DustScrape suppresses conveyor dust

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