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The World Bank is set to release the first tranche of its $120-million contribution to the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in Southern Africa’s mining sector during the first quarter of this year. The funds will initially be directed to assist current and former mineworkers in Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi and South …

Zambia asked South Africa on Thursday for up to 300 MW of emergency power to ease an electricity crunch that has hit mining companies already grappling with a slide in global copper prices, its embassy said. Energy minister Dora Siliya made the request in a meeting with South African President …

Democratic Republic of Congo has again delayed a ban on exports of copper and cobalt concentrate because it lacks enough electricity to process the minerals domestically, the mines ministry and chamber of mines said on Tuesday. Congo, which leads Africa in copper output and the world in cobalt production, first …

Integrated Pump Technology of South Africa has supplied 20 Bravo 900 submersible slurry pumps and 20 M20 control panels to Kamoto Copper Company (a subsidiary of Katanga Mining) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). These heavy duty electrical submersible slurry pumps are the largest of their kind in …

In order to respond to the mining industry’s efficiency challenge Metso has introduced the world’s largest cone crusher, MP2500. As ore grades decline, more and more ore needs to be processed to obtain the same amount of the valuable mineral and to meet production targets. This equation often results in …