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A solar power generating facility recently developed by a South African gold mine has made use of Zest WEG’s locally manufactured transformers to serve this specialised application. Factors like harmonics or ‘noise’ in the current flow mean that solar photovoltaic (PV) applications require specialised transformers, explains Rynard Potgieter, Sales Manager for transformers at Zest WEG. At this site, where 40 MW of renewable energy is being generated, the company supplied 10 of its custom-designed transformers of 5 MVA capacity each. The units for this PV project were manufactu...

The careful alignment of screens and crushers in processing makes for optimal throughput and efficiency, by ensuring that all settings and parameters are ideally matched. “The Kwatani product can now give their vibrating screen customers added benefits in this regard, being part of the global Sandvik group – which is well known for its crushing solutions,” says Kenny Mayhew-Ridgers, Regional Business Director at Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions South Africa. “The advantage is that the Kwatani screens can be specified and optimised with Sandvik’s range of crushers...

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Although Gauteng dwellers have tended to dismiss wind as a renewable energy provider from this region, some are now being blown away by the gusts that puff across our far-stretching gold reef. “I thought the wind didn’t blow up here,” interim Gold Fields CEO Martin Preece confessed this week during question time at the Johannesburg- and New York-listed company's environmental social and governance (ESG) presentation.

Beginning in the early 1970s, the Canadian government said guys, we're losing ground in exploration investment. We don't seem to be attracting any of that cash. Let's introduce something that attracts money to the sector and they sat around the table and some really clever tax guys came up with the flow-through shares concept. A flow-through share is a type of common share that permits the initial purchaser to claim a tax deduction equal to the amount invested. The flow-through share regime allows public companies to transfer to investors certain exploration expenditures co...