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With its head office situated in Woodmead, in Johannesburg, United Mining Services (UMS) Group incorporates internationally recognised UMS METS and UMS SHAFT SINKERS brands and is a leader in the mining and minerals processing sectors.
Mining luminary of South Africa’s shaft-sinking boom period at the beginning of the millennium Nigel Townshend is back in action as the newly appointed nonexecutive chairperson of United Mining Services (UMS) Limited. Since the start of this month, Townshend has been at the top table of UMS, an underground mining and metallurgical processing solutions company.
While it is clear that women in mining are a minority, and that long-term thinking is needed to increase accessibility and development of women in the mining sector, companies such as United Mining Services (UMS) are leading the drive towards inclusivity. Digby Glover, CEO of the UMS Group, says ...
Gravitricity has successfully commissioned its 250kW energy storage demonstrator, proving the novel technology’s capability. The demonstrator has been built above ground whilst future commercial projects will be built underground, potentially using decommissioned mine shafts. It works by raising one or more heavy weights in the shaft and releasing them when energy demand is up. A series of tests have now been carried out on the grid-connected demonstrator that has been built in the Port of Leigh in Edinburgh. The Scottish company successfully raised and lowered two 25-tonne weights, genera...