Modern Mining May 2015

MODERN M I N I N G

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MINING NEWS 4 Metallon’s quarterly gold production below budget 5 Pickstone-Peerless heads for production 6 Paragon to acquire Mothae diamond project 8 SRK’s Cape Town office makes inroads in Suriname 9 Commissioning of New Liberty gold mine underway 10 First Quantum’s Zambian projects now ramping up 12 Strong performance by Zambian emerald producer 14 Perseus lays first stone at Sissingué gold mine 15 One-year old Kibali gold mine already looks to its future 17 New method for detecting trace gold in drill samples 18 Tongon gold mine on track to meet 2015 guidance 19 Weatherly gets to grips with Tschudi start-up problems PRODUCT NEWS 64 Cat 745C articulated truck sets a new benchmark 65 New TwisterTrac impact crusher enters production 66 FLSmidth completes early engineering for Platreef winders 67 EnI Electrical awarded major contract for Maseve 69 Pallet-free bulk bag system ideal for minerals 70 Palabora chiller installation is a ‘first’in Africa 71 Intercom system for use in stopes developed FEATURE – CRUSHING, SCREENING AND MILLING 46 Aury Africa takes aim at the capital equipment market 50 Bell receives first dual power crushing and screening ‘train’ 52 Multotec aims to be top in screening media solutions 57 Careful screen media selection can reduce ‘cost per tonne’ 60 Massive scalping screen engineered for tonnage 62 Mill gear unit powers chrome mine output REGULARS COVER 22 Customised solution to power up and move Husab rope shovels COMPANIES 24 Master Drilling adds ‘flagship’machine to its fleet 28 MCC pushes the reset button 34 Sedgman streamlines in Africa 38 Scaw Metals holds its own in a challenging market EVENTS 42 Preview – twelfth Botswana Resource Sector Conference

Editor Arthur Tassell

Advertising Manager Bennie Venter e-mail: benniev@crown.co.za

Design & Layout Darryl James Circulation Karen Pearson Publisher Karen Grant Printed by: Shumani Printers

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COVER Barloworld Power designed and

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assembled two Cat C175 diesel engine motivators to power up the Cat 7495 electric rope shovels as well as Cat MD6290 and MD6640 rotary blasthole drills at the Husab mine in Namibia and move these giant machines between pits. Here one of the motivators walks an electric rope shovel to the pit. See page 22 for further details.

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