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ARTICLES COVER 6 New Volvo excavator punches well above its weight COMMODITIES OUTLOOK 10 The trouble with Cobalt DIAMONDS 12 De Beers achieves success with Small Beneficiators Customer project 14 Venetia’s open pits bow out in style 16 BBE completes refrigeration and air-cooling system for VUP JUNIOR MINING 20 Ndalamo Resources on exponential growth trajectory CRUSHING, SCREENING & MILLING 24 FLSmidth builds most complete comminution range 26 Optimising plants with Sandvik screening solutions 28 Weir: Leveraging quality to build crushing, screening plants

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CONSULTING ENGINEERS 32 Bara Consulting targets growth through diversification TECHNOLOGY 36 Glycine Leaching Technology: The future of mining REGULARS MINING NEWS 4 West African Resources increases reserves to 6.4 m ounces gold Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines awarded Kite Mark for ethics Giyani appoints Danny Keating as CEO 5 Anglo American partners with H2 Green Steel Brendan Harris is Sandfire’s new CEO COLUMN : ROSS HARVEY 40 Corruption is a cancerous curse SUPPLY CHAIN NEWS 43 Bell delivers solid performance driven by demand for ADTs Security first at VEGA 44 BME steps up pace of growth with JV in Indonesia SBTi approves SKF’s near and long-term emissions reduction targets Orica expands BLASTIQ TM to quarries

ON THE COVER Babcock’s Construction Equipment business has introduced the Volvo EC550E crawler excavator to the local market. See story on pg 6.

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