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Logistics play a vital role in mining profitability. A unique bulk haulage fleet is supplying reliable, cost-effective materials-handling solutions to the Zambian and DRC copper industry, using trailers that enable return loads – even if they are bulk liquids. Road haulage is the backbone of supply chain logistics in African mining. While …

Emerald miner Gemfields Plc said it sold a little over half a million carats of rough stones at its first high-quality emerald auction in Lusaka, Zambia, raking in $31.5 million. Gemfields, owner of the Fabergé luxury jewellery brand, said it realised an average price of $54 per carat, its highest …

FIRST Quantum Minerals Limited is expected to ramp up its copper production to 700,000 metric tonnes per annum by 2015 with the completion of Sentinel Mine and increase output arising from the expansions at Kansanshi mine. And First Quantum Mineral head of public relations Godfrey Msiska said once Kalumbila Mine …

JOHANNESBURG  – Given Botswana’s vast coal reserves, which were estimated at 200-billion tons, the country’s coal mining industry should seek to encourage investment and drive expansion in power generation, rather than ramping up its thermal coal exports over the next few years, research firm Frost & Sullivan mining, manufacturing and …

In a continued effort to stay abreast of new technology in geotechnical investigations and exploration drilling, Geomechanics recently took delivery of its new R7million, track mounted Sonic 450-24 drill rig.   Sonic Drilling offers many advantages over conventional rotary core and percussion drilling techniques in overburden ground conditions: It delivers …