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Leading African Mining Events and Publisher Evolves into the Vuka Group

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 admin

The African arm of international events organisation, Clarion Events, is delighted to announce a full rebrand representing their shift to a more future aligned approach to their market offering. The organisation, now branded as Vuka Group, which means awaken and rise, will be focusing their strategic direction and decision making to include a more African-centric vision of bringing people and organisations together to connect with information and each other, across curated digital and in-person environments. “The past 18 months have been extremely challenging for the events industry, and for our… Read More Here

Equipment & Technology Mining Companies

Engineered Flow Aids resolve bulk material handling issues

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 admin

In order to achieve controlled and consistent flow on conveyors handling large volumes of bulk material, transfer chutes and vessels must be designed not just to accommodate — but to actually facilitate — the flow of the cargo they will be handling. Unfortunately, because so many conditions can hamper effective cargo flow, engineering a conveyor and chutework that would handle every material situation is virtually impossible. Even modest changes in moisture content can cause adhesion to chute or vessel walls or agglomeration at low temperatures, especially if the belt is… Read More Here

Diamond New Mining Projects

Botswana Diamonds looks at potential for open cast mining

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 admin

Botswana Diamonds has successfully completed its nine hole drilling programme on the Thorny River property in South Africa.The objective was to see if two kimberlite blows (the River and River Extension blows were one contiguous orebody, thus increasing the overall resource and improving the commercial prospects of the project. Nine percussion holes totalling 483 metres, were drilled. One hole intersected 19.1 metres of kimberlite zone, which is encouragingly the biggest thickness found in all three drilling programmes to date. Another hole intersected a thickness of 13.5m of kimberlite zone. These… Read More Here

Cobalt Copper Mining in DRC

DRC-Mines: LAMIKAL, the young Chinese-owned mining company, amounts to 685,000 USD

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 admin

The LAMIKAL mining company (La Minière de Kalukundi SA) is located about 70 km east of the town of Kolwezi in Lualaba, DRC, and its site covers an area of 27.2 square kilometers. It achieves an annual average production of copper around 45,000 tonnes and 5,000 tonnes of cobalt, in the event of stability of the electric current. Its shareholding is made up of 75% from the Chinese side, 20% from Moroccans, and 5% from the Congolese state. LAMIKAL is counted among the benjamines of the cupro-cobalt production of Lualaba. It was from 2017… Read More Here

Battery Metals Energy

THE POWER OF ELECTROLYTIC MANGANESE IN BATTERIES

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 admin

Across the globe, electrolytic manganese plays a critical role in electrochemistry. Its use in modern alkaline, lithium, and sodium batteries offers immense cost and environmental benefits. However, some mining and industrial processing is required to ensure the electrolytic manganese is purified and suited for use in batteries. Across the globe, electrolytic manganese plays a critical role in electrochemistry. Its use in modern alkaline, lithium, and sodium batteries offers immense cost and environmental benefits. However, some mining and industrial processing is required to ensure the electrolytic manganese is purified and… Read More Here

Copper International

Copper price at 1-month low on global sell-off as Evergrande crisis intensifies

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 admin

Copper prices fell to one-month lows on Monday as traders tracked the risk of contagion from the debt crisis at developer Evergrande, which is fueling new fears about China’s growth path. Copper for delivery in December fell 3% from Friday’s settlement price, touching $4.116 per pound ($9,166 per tonne) midday Monday on the Comex market in New York. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange earlier touched $9,052.50 a tonne, the lowest since Aug. 20. The property giant has started to repay investors in its wealth management business with property this… Read More Here

Gold International

Gold price edges higher as havens rally on growing Evergrande fears

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 admin

Gold advanced Monday as fears of a spillover from debt woes of Asian real estate developer China Evergrande Group stoked demand for havens, outweighing concerns that the Federal Reserve’s reduction in stimulus could come soon. U.S. equities fell more than 2% as investor angst deepened over China’s real-estate sector and the Fed tapering. The dollar advanced to the highest level in nearly a month while Treasury yields slipped, boosting demand for non-interest bearing bullion. “Gold is actually acting as gold. It’s getting flight-to-safety buying due to concerns how bad we’re actually getting with news… Read More Here

Mining Careers Mining in Zambia

SPECIALIST,TECHANICAL | MINING CAREER AT FQM, KALUMBILA, SOLWEZI, ZAMBIA

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 admin

Requisition Number: JR3550| Country: Zambia | Contract Type: Fixed Term| Location: Solwezi | Category: Engineering Apply now Purpose Will be responsible for Process Plant Reliability, Maintenance and Continuous Improvement Activities at HPL (High Pressure Leach), Oxygen plant and Acid plant (4) Scope, plan and implement improvement projects that are identified in the Section. Key Responsibilities This position will be required to adhere to all relevant requirements, policies, procedures and legal regulations pertaining to health, safety, environment and quality, as well as finance, human resources, and any other regulations as required by the company and relevant to the level… Read More Here

Energy

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote keen to launch construction of Lekki refinery valued at USD 19 billion

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 admin

The powerful African businessman, the Nigerian Aliko Dangote, is keen to start the construction of his mega refinery Lekki at a total cost of 19 billion US dollars. According to Reuters information, Africa’s first richest man, Aliko Dangote, has started talks with some of the world’s largest oil traders to raise a loan to finance the construction of her. mega oil refinery located in Lekki. The same source indicates that the Dangote Group, which is carrying the project, needs a significant injection of liquidity due to the economic impacts of… Read More Here

Mining in DRC Cobalt Copper Energy

Electric instability and invasions of illegal diggers are the major problems in production for “TFM” in DRC

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 admin

Chinese-owned Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) is one of the largest copper producers in the DRC and the largest cobalt producer in the world. TFM achieves an average annual copper production of around 180,000 tonnes and its average annual cobalt production varies between 16,500 to 18,000 tonnes. But it faces a serious problem of energy deficit due to the poor quality and untimely cuts of the electric current supplied by the National Electricity Company (SNEL). TFM is also stuck with security issues . ACTUALITE.CD and DESKECO.COM have observed on the ground these difficulties… Read More Here