Media Release BME is the leading supplier of explosives to the South African open pit mining and quarrying industry and it has been in business since 1984. BME operates throughout Africa with a strong presence in southern and West Africa. For almost a decade, BME’s Losberg plant near Fochville in North West province has not …
Media Release As part of its modernisation strategy, Anglo American Platinum’s Tumela Mine has partnered with blasting firm BME in a pioneering initiative to introduce emulsion explosives underground at its mine near Thabazimbi in Limpopo province. On 04 March, BME and Anglo American Platinum’s Tumela mine announced the trial rollout of 54 Portable Charging Units …
Media Release 30 April 2015 – Johannesburg: A range of short courses in health, safety, risk management, sustainability, community relations and socio-economic development are coming up soon, and form part of the regular offering by the Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry (CSMI) at Wits University. Known for their practical applicability and insights, the …
Media Release 12 June 2015 – Johannesburg: At a celebratory function on 11 June, the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Mining Engineering paid tribute to the enormous contribution made by its former Head of School, Professor Fred Cawood, during his five year tenure from 2010 to 2014. Professor Cawood remains in the School as …
Media Release 28 April 2015 – Johannesburg: Grappling with uncertainties in decision-making is at the heart of managing mines’ operations, and students at the Wits School of Mining Engineering are employing a high-tech program to do just this. Partnering with decision analysis software company Palisade, the School now has licensed access to the powerful @RISK …
Exclusive Opinion Piece for SA Mining Brindaveni Naidoo reports Improving and establishing collaboration, partnerships and relationships with students, employees at the school, other universities, professional organisations and the mining industry remains a strategic imperative for the new head of the University of the Witwatersrand’s (Wits’) School of Mining Engineering – Professor Cuthbert Musingwini. Having lectured …
Exclusive Opinion Piece for Mining Review Africa The baton of leadership has changed hands at South Africa’s oldest and largest mining school, as Professor Cuthbert Musingwini steps up to take the School of Mining Engineering at Wits University forward. After a decade of teaching at Wits, Professor Musingwini is no stranger to the campus or …
Media Release 9 March 2015 – Johannesburg: Professor Cuthbert Musingwini has been appointed head of the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Mining Engineering. Having lectured at Wits since 2004, Professor Musingwini has over 20 years of experience in the mining sector – including mine production management and planning, consulting and academia. He began his …
Media Release 09 March 2015 – Johannesburg: A life-size mining stope panel was handed over by New Concept Mining (NCM) to the Wits School of Mining Engineering on 6 March 2015, to help students learn about stoping activities through a better visualisation of how a real mine looks. The stope panel– sponsored to the tune …
News Snippet 28 May 2015 – Johannesburg: Daniel Avutia, a geotechnical engineer with SRK Consulting in Johannesburg, has won the National Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM³) Young Persons’ Lecture Competition for his lecture entitled: Analytical study of sinkhole propagation in South Africa. He will represent South Africa (Africa) at the World Championships in …