With the demand for quality, hand-crafted jewellery increasing worldwide, Mintek's Kgabane Jewellery Programme is hoping to fill a niche gap, combining recycled glass with gold and silver to produce a unique African jewellery range.

The skill of bringing together seemingly disparate and disconnected elements to provide a valuable solution to a new challenge is the key to making innovation relevant and meaningful.

Emerging South African mining companies should heed the call to expand northwards into Africa. This will offset low earnings in certain commodity markets by diversifying, in terms of commodities, markets and geography, international consultancy, Frost & Sullivan, said in a statement on Monday.

We’ve got another jam-packed edition of Mining Prospectus coming your way next month, as we tackle the green debate within South African mining: Are we really creating a sustainable mining environment and identifying ways to curb the harmful bi-products of Mining?

Gilbarco Veeder-Root has signed a definitive purchase agreement with Automated Fuel Systems Group (Proprietary) Limited (AFS Group), based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The purchase agreement, which has been approved by the South African competition commission, is subject to customary closing conditions which are expected to be fulfilled by the middle of May 2013.