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NEWS
Agenda / East Weir Minerals technology serves Kwale Mineral Sands Project Weir Minerals Africa is supplying its cyclones to Base Resources’ flagship project, the Kwale Mineral Sands Project in Kenya. Not only is this one of the company’s biggest orders to date in Africa for the supply of Cavex cyclones, but it is also the first time that it will supply Linatex rubber liners in the Cavex technology. Both Cavex clusters include the supply of Isogate valves with Linatex rubber linings. The company has also won a contract from the Kwale Mineral Sands Project for the supply of 55 pumps - including tailings pumps,
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An illustration of a cluster of 10 Cavex CVX 650 cyclones
An illustration of a cluster of 14 Cavex CVX 500 cyclones
cyclone feed pumps, plant and sump pumps. This is one of the largest orders across the product range that Weir Minerals Africa has received out of East Africa. The Kwale Project is located 10km inland from the Kenyan coast and 50km south of Mombasa. Ore mining and production are scheduled to commence in August 2013 with a 13-year mine life, producing ilmenite, rutile and zircon.
Inchcape moves into Mauritius Maritime services provider Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has expanded its operations into Mauritius, with the acquisition of Belship Co Ltd. Renamed ISS Belship, this opening marks ISS’ first venture in the country and is based in the capital, Port-Louis, offering marine and offshore agency services, logistics and freight forwarding, within a wider portfolio of global services. The ISS Belship team in Port Louis is headed by General Manager Arnaud Teycheney, who was a former shareholder of Belship and is loyally supported by his team of experienced staff. Allan Vermaak, Vice President – Special Projects said: “We are very pleased to open ISS Belship in Mauritius not only to further our expansion in the region but to support our clients with our extensive range of integrated maritime, cargo and vessel supply chain solutions, developed to maximise efficiencies within their operations and improve business performance and profitability.”
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Mopani Copper invests in environmental project
African Review of Business and Technology - September 2012
opani Copper Mines (MCM) has invested over ZMK1.1 trillion (US$202mn) in the first two phases of the smelter upgrade project aimed at raising sulphur dioxide capture from zero to 51 per cent. MCM chief executive officer Danny Callow said the mining firm was currently working on Phase Three of the smelter upgrade project which would raise the capture of sulphur dioxide from 51 per cent to 97 per cent. He was speaking when the company handed over acid mist monitoring equipment to Mufulira Municipal Council recently. The project is expected to be completed in 2013. “This is further demonstration of Mopani’s commitment to address the problem of sulphur dioxide which affected the community in Kankoyo, Mufulira, for over 80 years since the first smelter was commissioned in the early 1930s,’” he explained. The donation of the equipment to enable the council and other stakeholders to undertake independent monitoring of the Mufulira West Heap Leach Project, was testimony of MCM’s commitment to the welfare of the community and to operating in a transparent manner. “You may recall that following concerns from the community in Butondo township regarding operations of Mufulira West Heap Leach Project early this year, Mopani started engaging the community through a multi-stakeholders’ forum that was initiated by two civil society organisations, the Citizens for Better Environment and the Southern Africa Resource Watch. Other stakeholders included the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) and the community of Butondo and we have been committed to the process since then,’” he said. Nawa Mutumweno