Concor Opencast Mining has been involved in several major contracts in recent months which have consistently demonstrated to the market that it has the necessary experience, capacity and resources to ...

Opencast mining operations in South Africa remain one of the industry’s main contributors to short- and long-term environmental damage, as they have a direct and cumulative impact on the air, water, ...

Concor Opencast Mining has announced that the company recently secured two new contracts as well as an extension to an existing project. Concor Opencast Mining is part of Concor Construction which was ...

GRINDING INVESTMENTMintails expects to spend around R85-million on mine closure costs by the time it ceases its planned 20 years of operation CALLING A HALT Mintails is closing and securing ...

SCOTLAND could become a ''soft touch'' for opencast coal developers after the introduction yesterday of tough new controls on the industry in England, environmental campaigners warned. The Government ...

Solid Energy is trying to change its mining permit to investigate ways to make money out of the defunct Pike River coalmine, including opencast mining. A spokesman said today that the Ministry of ...

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Opencast mines in the UK are expected to produce 10m tonnes of coal this year Applications for opencast mining on greenfield sites are likely to increase to meet the UK's demand for energy, the ...

Climate activists have set up camp alongside the UK's largest opencast mine in Merthyr Tydfil. Campaign group Reclaim the Power say they will attempt to halt operations at the Ffos-y-Fran site on ...

These walkways at Blesbokspruit are at risk when an opencast coal- and clay mine will open on a farm next to the Blesbokspruit Ramsar-site. Springs residents have, for the third time, said no to the ...

Newcastle City Council has rejected Banks Mining’s application to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal from a site at Dewley Hill near Throckley. This decision will hopefully bring down the curtain on ...