Gone are the days when mines in Africa could afford to ‘go it alone’ by building their own infrastructure, according to global […]

05 February 2016 – Johannesburg: SRK Consulting (SA) has announced a number of new appointments within the firm, including a new chairman, […]

5 February 2016 – Johannesburg: The last years of the commodity boom were littered with mining projects doomed to failure by their […]

As the next Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town looms in February, miners have been urged to look beyond the gloom of the current commodities slump and to start planning their next projects without delay.

How, as a mining company, do you form development partnerships with communities?

Graham Howell, Partner and Principal Structural and Geotechnical Consultant at SRK Consulting (SA), has been elected as a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering (SAAE).

“The metaphor of jumping into the deep end is therefore a fitting theme for the book’s cover and narrative.”

SRK Consulting (SA), the Africa arm of the global consulting engineering firm, has appointed principal scientist Vis Reddy as managing director, based in the Johannesburg office.

Thumbs up for practical junior miners guide

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.

Its depth of in-house expertise in both environmental and mining disciplines allows SRK Consulting (SA) to deliver optimal value when auditing mining clients’ compliance with their Environmental Management Programme Reports (EMPRs) and Environmental Authorisations.

Monitoring of tailings storage facilities could provide better levels of confidence that the facility is performing as was intended if regular monitoring data measurements were compared to expected values rather than just being checked for changes, according to two young engineers at SRK Consulting (SA).