Platinum to fire up, or cool down?
January 14 - 20, 2008
POWER and safety concerns continue to emerge as major structural issues for a platinum industry enjoying record price levels, while the big clouds on the horizon for existing mine operators and developers remain the automobile industry’s push to reduce demand in the face of such high prices, as well as the possibility that projections on future supply buck previous form.
AFR disputes Grigor counter
January 14 - 20, 2008
FRAZER Tabeart can understand why the numbers at African Energy Resources’ (AFR) Chirundu uranium project in Zambia might not “stack up” in the calculations of sometime uranium analyst Warwick Grigor. But that’s not to say Tabeart, who was recently appointed managing director of AFR, is anything other than confident that Chirundu could prove a very profitable development indeed.
Lights, camera, action
January 14 - 20, 2008
IT may not be the way forward for all mine sites, but the introduction of teleremote-controlled equipment and a new operating method at the high-profile Beaconsfield gold mine in Tasmania appears to be meeting management’s – and government - safety requirements.