A renewed focus on enhancing safety, promoting sustainability, and providing tangible value to customers through responsible and innovative mining practices came under the spotlight at the long-awaited return of BME’s Technical Summit in October 2025. This year’s...
By Sitsaba Bekwa and Lindokuhle Ntumba (Aon South Africa’s Mining Team) Mining has powered South Africa’s economy since diamonds were discovered near Kimberley in 1867, sparking a wave of foreign investment and infrastructure growth. Today, the sector contributes 6%...
Marcin Wertz, Partner and principal mining engineer at SRK Consulting (South Africa) By SRK Consulting There was a renewed sense of a positivity for the future of South African mining at the Joburg Indaba this year, despite ongoing impediments to more rapid growth...
By Tas Mohamed (CEO, Railveyor Technologies Inc.) Traditional methods of moving material from pit to plant are being re-evaluated, as mines look for technologies that deliver high performance with greater flexibility – while reducing costs and carbon footprint....
By Esther van der Vyver South Africa’s biggest open pits already move world-scale volumes: iron ore at Sishen/Kolomela, coal at Grootgeluk, and PGMs at Mogalakwena. Kumba Iron Ore, for example, produced 35.7 Mt in 2023. In coal, Grootegeluk remains one of the world’s...
Ore containing copper, cobalt and nickel. Image by Paul-Alain Hunt for Unsplash Following decades of challenges in the mining sector caused by colloidal silica in copper and cobalt leaching, BME Metallurgy has succeeded in developing and applying an innovative...
