Modern Quarrying Q2 2023

ON THE COVER

INSTITUTE OF QUARRYING SOUTHERN AFRICA AECI’s Maida Ntuli.

Dr. Mark Rawlings from Energy and Combustion Services.

ASPASA’s Anthony Bowden.

ASPASA’S health and compliance officer, Marius van Deventer.

ELB’s Paul Lilley.

AfriSam’s Kirath Isiripershad.

The Institute of Quarry Southern Africa’s annual conference was held in April at the Premier Hotel in Umhlanga and was themed ‘Our changing world’. The theme was especially apt as ASPASA and the IQSA collaborated closely for the first time in the quest to benefit the quarrying industry – albeit on, respectively, a company and individual basis. The conference also had many exhibitors as it was the ideal way for manufacturers and service providers to reach those that will use their products and services. THE CHANGING WORLD

A SPASA’s annual health and safety awards were presented during the conference and Letisha van den Berg, ASPASA’s new chairman informed conference goers of ASPASA’S way forward. Modern Quarrying attended the conference.

ASPASA – the way forward Letisha van den Berg recently took over as Director at ASPASA after Nico Pienaar’s retirement. At the conference she presented a sum mary of how ASAPASA sees the road ahead. The aim of ASPASA is to promote a healthy and sustain able small surface mining industry in South Africa and to be the voice

of the industry by representing the interest of small opencast mining in South Africa. This it achieves by acting as a forum for its members and by establishing ASPASA mem bers as small open cast surface mine suppliers of choice, based on compliance and leading practices. She explained that ASPASA liaises with various industry bodies

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MODERN QUARRYING QUARTER 2 | 2023