Modern Mining March 2025

MODERN MINING ANNIVERSARY

Modern Mining celebrates

March marks a major milestone in Modern Mining’s diary – twenty years in business – an accolade in the business-to-business print media segment.

M arch marks a major milestone in Modern Mining’s diary – twenty years in business – an accolade in the business-to-business print media segment. Launched in March 2005 by Crown Publications founder, Jenny Warwick, Modern Mining , initially headed by former editor Arthur Tassell and former sales manager, Bennie Venter, has become integral to the Crown Publications stable. Interestingly, Crown Publications, which began operating in 1986 – 39 years ago – is, itself, on the cusp of celebrating a milestone – 40 years in 2026. In addition to Modern Mining , the media

house has a line-up of eight publications, these being Construction World, MechChem Africa, Electricity + Control, Sparks Electrical News, Capital Equipment News, Modern Quarrying and African Fusion . Modern Mining was launched at a time when the mining sector was booming and competition among the various mining publications stiff. Since then, the industry has faced-off on the 2008 financial crisis and eleven years later, the Covid 19 pandemic, which, together with the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), has done much to obliterate the importance of print publications.

Modern Mining’s former editor, Arthur Tassell.

Bennie Venter, former sales manager of Modern Mining.

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