The introduction of underground Wi-Fi has improved productivity and working conditions for hundreds of miners at Anglo American’s coal mining operations in Mpumalanga by enabling two-way communications between miners working underground and staff on the surface. Goedehoop Colliery recently became the coal division’s second operation to introduce intrinsically safe wireless communication
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The push to start mining in space could pose a major threat to the future of life on Earth, scientists have warned. Over the past few years, fledgling space mining companies have set their sights on precious metals, minerals and other valuable materials locked up in asteroids and nearby rocky planets. These
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THE Miners Association of Nigeria, MAN, have decried the importation of 5 million metric tonnes of bitumen into the country. National President, MAN, Kabir Kankara, said the latest importation was the highest on the importation chart as at April 2019. Kankara, who lamented the huge loss of foreign exchange by the
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Federal Govt To Process Mining Licences Within 15 Days. The Federal Government has announced that it is decentralising the Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office for ease of operations, adding that this will cut down the time for processing licences from 45 to 15 days. The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development,
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CSOs Push For Safe, Equal Opportunities Regional Mining Terms Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in West African countries have said they want the harmonised model mining law enunciated by the region’s economic platform – the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS), to reflect more on safe mining of minerals, equal opportunities
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High Quality Platinum Mineral Discover In Suleja, Niger State The Federal Government say it has discovered high quality of platinum group elements in a village in Niger. Abubakar Bwari, the Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, announced this on Monday at the groundbreaking ceremony of AG Vision Mining Site in Suleja
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Employees of the Nigerian Institute of Mining and Geosciences are currently undergoing training on the latest mining techniques that would help improve their efficiency and grow the country’s revenue from the sector. Speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing seven-day training on human capital development for NIMG staff in conjunction with
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Mining waste could provide a reliable supply of rare earth elements, including neodymium and dysprosium, from a type of mining waste called phosphogypsum – a product of making phosphoric acid from phosphate rock for fertilisers – according to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). More than a billion tons if such waste
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Years after mining activities started in the country, stakeholders yesterday, in Abuja, offered explanations on the slow pace of Nigeria’s solid mineral and mining sector, and continuous decline of the sector’s contribution to Gross Domestic Products (GDP). The stakeholders, who included heads of government agencies from related federal ministries, vice chancellors
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Space stations of the future may be built inside distant asteroids, scientists claim. One team of researchers found it would be possible to bore into the middle of a distant space rock, erect a space station and mine valuable minerals from within. They proved it would be mathematically possible, with the right asteroid,
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