Mining and electric vehicles: what can be done to reduce the carbon footprint?
Indonesia has taken another step towards its quest to become a leading electric vehicle (EV) player, with the world’s two largest producers of EV batteries...
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PFERD: Comprehensive Solutions for the Metalworking Industry
The trusted name for quality, high-performance abrasives, offers the metalworking industry integrated solutions for surface preparation, material cutting as well as finishing. By drawing on...
Nigeria’s Economic Status And The Mining Sector
It’s indisputable that Nigeria’s mining sector is presently in a moribund state, despite the government’s diversification mantra. Mining is usually referred to as the extraction...
Africa’s top bauxite exporter Guinea posts 4% rise in shipments
Africa’s top bauxite exporter Guinea shipped 85.6 million tons of the ore last year, 4% more than in 2020, according to its mining ministry. Despite...
Why South Africa’s miners are missing out on the commodity boom
South Africa is missing out on some of the riches on offer from the commodities boom as a rail network beset by problems affects its...
Mercedes electric car battery recycling plant plan revealed
Electric cars use precious rare-earth metals such as cobalt in the construction of their batteries and Mercedes is now constructing a plant to help recover some of these...
OMAX Unveils OptiMAX, its Most Advanced Waterjet Ever
Hypertherm’s OMAX Corporation today introduced its most advanced waterjet ever, the OptiMAX, a new generation of waterjet designed to quickly turn prints into parts while...
WearCheck Cape Town moves to Brackenfell
Condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, recently relocated their Cape Town transformer laboratory, their sales office to Brackenfell in CT. The company’s sister operation – Set Point...
Energy Capital & Power signs Long-term Partnership Agreement with Senegal’s Petrosen
Senegal’s national oil and gas company has signed a development and cooperation agreement with Africa’s leading investment platform for the energy sector ECP is responsible...
South Africa: GIFA Identifies Nine Mining Sites for Solar Power Deployment
Infrastructural development organization, the Gauteng Infrastructure Financing Agency (GIFA), has identified nine mining-sites in the West Rand area of the Gauteng Province, South Africa –...