Modern Mining July 2019

MODERN M I N I N G

CONTENTS

JULY 2019

ARTICLES

COVER 18 Sandvik’s interoperability gives miners the ‘big picture’ GOLD 22 Endeavour’s new-look Ity gold mine performing strongly COPPER/ZINC 26 Positive BFS supports the revival of Prieska COUNTRY FOCUS: BOTSWANA 30 Cupric’s Zone 5 mine in the Kalahari enters construction 34 First natural flake graphite discovery in Botswana 38 Tsodilo to extract second bulk sample from BK16

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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Deputy Publisher Wilhelm du Plessis Printed by: Shumani Mills Communications

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REGULARS MINING NEWS 4

BlueRock reports record production at Kareevlei

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Nedbank CIB pioneers dual-currency mining deal

Publisher of the Year 2018 (Trade Publications)

Maiden JORC resource estimate for Namibian tantalite mine

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Syama achieves commercial rates of ore production

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Gem sells its Ghaghoo mine for US$5,4 million

8 Partnership seeks to boost pipeline of female engineers 10 Hylea Metals to acquire Kayelekera uraniummine 11 Strategic loan to manganese producer 12 Drilling confirms continuity of Longonjo mineralisation 13 Predictive expands its landholding in Guinea 15 North Mara achieves record monthly production 16 CPR prepared on Gakara rare earths project PRODUCT NEWS 40 Reliability leads to a repeat order for Condra 40 Osborn exports double toggle jaw crusher to Turkey 41 Fast-track solution for tailings recovery project 42 Understanding design choices for vibrating screens 42 Hydraulically driven pumps added to rental fleet 43 FLSmidth to test panels at African sites 44 Booyco’s VDS intervenes to improve safety 44 WearCheck acquires reliability testing company

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Cover Technology developed by Sandvik facilitates the sharing of data across different information systems to allow fully integrated mine manage- ment. See page 18 for further details.

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