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FAM Minerals & Mining South Africa team
FAM Minerals & Mining launches in South Africa
30th January 2026 By: Darren Parker

Industrial engineering company FAM Minerals & Mining, which is part of engineering and logistics equipment manufacturer Beumer Group, has expanded into South Africa with the launch of FAM Minerals... 


A generic image of an iron ore conveyor
Evolving transfer points at the heart of modern mining efficiency
30th January 2026

With this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba placing partnerships at the centre of the industry’s growth narrative, the evolution of material transfer points illustrates how collaborative... 


Booyco employees illustrating how equipments works
Partnerships will define proximity detection future
30th January 2026

With partnerships at the heart of this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba’s theme, mine safety equipment manufacturer Booyco Electronics highlights why sustained industry-wide collaboration... 


A segmented girth gear working in tandem with an industrial gear unit to drive high-performance, large-diameter rotating equipment
SEW-EURODRIVE awarded largest African projects, partnerships grow
30th January 2026

As the spotlight falls on Africa’s mining progress at this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba, global drive technology specialist SEW-EURODRIVE reports a milestone performance for the past... 


Mining equipment sold by Sandvik
Sandvik gets a boost from safe-haven gold boom
27th January 2026 By: Reuters

Swedish mining equipment and metal-cutting tool maker Sandvik reported slightly larger-than-expected fourth-quarter core profit on Tuesday and proposed a higher dividend, after mining activity and... 


Donaldson Filtration webinar to explore benefits of a single filtration partner
Donaldson Filtration webinar to explore benefits of a single filtration partner
20th January 2026

Your mine operates as one interconnected system – your filtration strategy should do the same. Join the Donaldson Filtration webinar on February 4 at 10:00 (register here) to gain insight for a... 


coal mining
Liberty Coal transfers 540 workers as Optimum Colliery prepares 500 new jobs
16th January 2026 By: Darren Parker

Coal company Liberty Coal has confirmed that about 540 employees have been transferred to Liberty Mine Services (LMS), following its appointment as the principal independent mining contractor at... 


Boston Consulting Group’s Tycho Möncks (left) and Mikhail Nikomarov.
2025 to 2035 decisive for Africa’s new mineral wealth opportunity, say Boston execs
16th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Africa’s mineral wealth has become a focal point for the clean energy transition and advanced manufacturing and coordinated action by Africa can convert the continent’s mineral wealth into GDP... 


New borehole occluding device to tackle mining theft, improve safety and uptime
New borehole occluding device to tackle mining theft, improve safety and uptime
9th December 2025

Creamer Media publishing editor Martin Creamer talks to South African civil construction and mining solutions company Jonker Kontrakteurs CEO Nicolaas Johannes Jonker and mining/product specialist... 


A  R 9350 300 t excavator designed by Liebherr on site in Zambia at sunset
Two excavators delivered to Zambian contract miner
5th December 2025

Heavy equipment manufacturer Liebherr Zambia has successfully delivered two R 9350 300 t excavators to mining contractor Kascco, with the most recent handover taking place in late-August. The R... 


Three BMG service vehicles parked in front of a mining operation
Diagnostic technology used to prevent failures
5th December 2025 By: Halima Frost

Having the necessary technologies, parts and expertise on hand has enabled industrial equipment supplier BMG to cement its long-standing partnership with a leading platinum group metals mining... 


Diagnostic technologies for failure prevention becoming the norm
5th December 2025 By: Halima Frost

Remote diagnostics and on-site interventions have become the standard for South African earthmoving equipment manufacturer and supplier Bell Equipment, as these technologies are used to predict... 


Andru Mining's new centenary-grey Caterpillar D8 dozer
Andru Mining receives new centenary D8 Caterpillar dozer from Barloworld Equipment
1st December 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Mining services company Andru Mining received a new grey-coloured D8 dozer, made by construction and mining equipment company Caterpillar, from industrial equipment company Barloworld Equipment on... 


Gold from South Africa's world-renowned Rand Refinery.
Gold’s probably hit 2025 high but don’t rule out Christmas rally, say gold strategists
25th November 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Even though there is consensus that gold has probably already hit its 2025 high point and is unlikely to go beyond the all-time-record it set in October when it breached the $4 300/oz mark, a Santa... 


An image of Lindie Fourie
Certain works qualify as civil engineering – council
21st November 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

As South Africa’s mining sector accelerates its shift towards contractor-led models for noncore functions, a growing number of service providers are unknowingly falling foul of legal... 


A generic image of a modular cleanroom
Zambian demand surges
21st November 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

The demand for modular infrastructure in Zambia’s mining sector is currently growing rapidly as the industry expands to meet global copper demand. With copper prices remaining high, nearly all... 


PAR's Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) plant, on the West Rand of Johannesburg,
Reminer lifts efficiencies, capitalises off scale
21st November 2025 By: Halima Frost

Through continuous investment in infrastructure and technologies, midtier gold producer Pan African Resources (PAR) ensures improved performance at its tailings storage facility (TSF) remining... 


The above image depicts one of Komatsu's PC5500
N Cape mine gets new shovels
14th November 2025 By: Donna Slater

In mid-October, heavy equipment manufacturer Komatsu South Africa delivered and commissioned a PC5500-11 hydraulic face shovel for iron-ore and manganese miner Assmang’s Khumani iron-ore mine, in... 


STOPGUN V2.0
SVI’s most popular solution for mining clients – the Stopgun V2.0 package, seen here on a Totoya Hilux, offers cost-effective and comprehensive vehicle armouring
Uptake of life-saving armoured solutions increases
7th November 2025 By: Donna Slater

With rising threats facing mines in South Africa, Gauteng-based armoured vehicle systems company SVI Engineering is targeting its product research and development at offering mining clients... 


Booyco Electronics PDS system
Collision avoidance standard need not be disruptive
7th November 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Mine safety systems original-equipment manufacturer (OEM) Booyco Electronics says the implementation of Level 9 vehicle interventions for collision avoidance at mines remains uneven across the... 


SOLAR-POWERED FLASHABILITY
The newly launched solar-powered LED flashing cones come in six reflective colours with the LED lighting widgets configured to flash the same colour
Solar-powered cones up night shift safety
7th November 2025 By: Donna Slater

Newly developed solar-powered light-up safety cones have been released to the South African mining market by quarry, mining and industrial products supplier ERG Industrial. The 1.8-m-tall safety... 


 Engineering inspection of concrete test cubes.
As Joburg's gold begins to re-show, Pilgrim’s Rest gold plant project accelerates
4th November 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Johannesburg and Pilgrim’s Rest, two locations steeped in South African gold mining history, are both making it clear that their gold resources are far from done. Mining Weekly chalked up reads... 


Implats refinery.
Implats delivers higher sales into much improved platinum group metals pricing
31st October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Platinum group metals (PGM) mining and marketing company Implats delivered higher refined and saleable production and sales volumes into improved PGM pricing in the three months to September 30.... 


Pilot Crushtec sales manager for South Africa Charl Marais
Pilot Crushtec demonstrates innovation, sustainability in crushing solutions at Coal Africa 2025
31st October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Mining equipment supplier Pilot Crushtec showcased its robust range of mobile and modular crushing solutions designed for the demanding conditions of coal mining at the ICPC Coal Africa 2025... 


The above image depicts Bell Equipment's proximity detection systems
Shared safety tech improves systems integration, use
31st October 2025 By: Lynne Davies

To ease the management and improve the usability of its graders and articulated dump trucks (ADTs), heavy equipment manufacturer Bell Equipment’s use of shared technology – such as proximity... 


 	Ntsiki Adonisi, Rachel Dagadu, Zinzi Lawrence, Amarachukwu Odo, and Chimwemwe Tembo-Shula.
South Africa’s thin-incentive critical minerals strategy noted in G20Lens analysis
30th October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s critical minerals strategy is not embedded in a modernised mining policy aligned with an industrial policy. Investment incentives are thin: there are no tax holidays, royalty relief... 


head and shoulder shot of Dushendra
Renewed strategy targets zero harm
24th October 2025 By: Devina Haripersad

The renewed Khumbul’ekhaya 2.0 safety and health strategy has been rolled out for the South African mining sector to eliminate fatalities, reduce life-changing injuries and embed a proactive safety... 


An image of Ralf Hennecke
Hydrogen peroxide emulsions rolled out to SADC markets
24th October 2025 By: Donna Slater

Explosives and blasting company BME and Sweden-based explosives company Hypex Bio Explosives Technology (Hypex Bio) have advanced their partnership beyond Canada by initiating an infrastructure and... 


An image of the A50 ADT
New gen ADTs eyed by opencast miners
24th October 2025 By: Donna Slater

Following African equipment supplier Babcock Africa’s mid-year launch of new generation Volvo articulated dump trucks (ADTs) and excavators, opencast contract mining services company JCI Mining has... 


TGME gold project in Mpumalanga.
Mpumalanga gold plant build accelerates, contractors mobilised, ground broken
23rd October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The pace of the gold plant build of the TGME gold mine project in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province is stepping up, with contractors mobilised and construction underway at the carbon-in-leach... 


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