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COMPANIES & INTERESTS
UMS SHAFT SINKERS
Established 60 years ago to service the Shaft Sinking, Underground Construction and development needs of the underground mining industry, and now part of the UNITED MINING SERVICES GROUP, the Shaft Sinkers brand has been associated with the successful delivery of many of the worlds’ leading underground mining projects. This track record is built up across 250 mining and shaft projects undertaken globally. Our expertise lies in helping our clients extract value from the world’s most challenging ore bodies. In doing so we draw on a practical mix of proven design and innovation based on significant engineering expertise and proven construction experience.
Our library of technical knowledge and experience spanning six decades enables us to undertake virtually any mining and underground construction challenges. Their. Full range of services are: Shaft Sinking, lateral and decline development, tunnelling, Underground temporary and permanent infrastructure (including shaft towers), all surface infrastructure, large excavations, commissioning of shaft infrastructure and specialist technical audits of shaft infrastructure.
TAGEX AFRICA
TAGEX Africa – 30% owned by Rootz 031 (PTY) LTD, is a pioneering company committed to mitigating the risks associated with greenfield exploration and facilitating the seamless transition from entry-level prospecting rights to fully-fledged mining rights and permits.
Founded as a strategic partnership among industry leaders with extensive experience, TAGEX Investment offers a comprehensive range of services to support the successful development of mining projects with unwavering dedication to sustainability and responsible resource extraction. The core of the services TAGEX offers are Geological, Exploration Drilling and Contract Mining Services.
MANMOL INVESTMENTS
Manmol Investments is a 100% black owned South African investment company with its primary focus being partnerships and collaborations across the Mining Value Chain within the African Continent. Manmol is a holder of a number of Mineral Prospecting Licenses within interesting geological areas in South Africa.
Manmol’s market research indicates that Africa is endowed with minerals required by the world, and that the extent of exploration activities serve as a precursor for future economic activities.
LOGICAL FIRST
Logical First is the middle ground the mining industry needs, providing cost-effective, high-grade work that can be trusted and safe. All work carried out by Logical First is designed to SANS standards and ISO guidelines. Having been part of the mining and design sector for an extended amount of time, Logical First offers the most elite mining industry professionals in their respective areas of focus, who provide the mining industry with the highest quality work possible.
Logical First’s main intention is to provide the mining industry with the support and partnership that they can rely on and trust, guaranteeing their clients with good quality, high-grade design work that alleviates the need for large, overpriced design houses that provide standard work in an inflated timeframe. Further relieving clients from using cheaper, substandard and risky sub-contractors that don’t follow standard regulations and take unnecessary safety risks.
Specific services offered by Logical First include; Pre-Feasibility, Feasibility and Bankable Feasibility Studies; Design and Safety Risk Assessments; Permanent and Sinking Shaft Design; Structural Steel Design; Structural and Electrical Engineering Design; Material Handling Design; Underground Services and Infrastructure Design; Mechanical and Civil Engineering Design; Shaft and Underground Audit; Systems and Operational Audit; Surface and Infrastructure Audit; Safety Systems Design and Audit; Quality Control; 3D Animations as well as Fabrication and Installation.
NEWPARK PROPERTIES
NEWPARK PROPERTIES owns Una Mines, which is a Diamond Mine found in the UNA farm near Boshoff in the Free State Province of South Africa. The Diamond fissure mines used to be owned by the Rand London Mines, and was listed in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the 70s and early 80s. The mine was then put on Care and Maintenance in 1988, due to the depressed diamond market then.
The new owners, Newpark Properties bought the land with the Mining asset. Manmol investment – which wholly owned by Thabo Moloto, owns 30% shareholding in the Mine. The new owners have recently renewed the Mining rights for a 30-year period.
Management is in the process of redefining the Ore body that has a potential 38 years life of Mining. The mine will soon be restarted by treating the tailings with a modular DMS plant and XRT technologies. The mine had historically produced Diamonds at average grade of 35 CPHT.
M&D MINING (Trading as NEWNITE)
Newnite is a Mineral Asset development company which is 50% owned by Thabo Moloto. The company’s focus is Exploration and Asset Development of Critical and Future minerals in South Africa. The firm currently holds exploration rights for Copper, Nickel, Zinc and Lead in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
All the crucial steps of exploration have been conducted, up to Geophysical Surveys where clear outcrops and geological anomalies have been Identified. Exploration Drilling will commence as soon as targets have been generated.
SIGHT POWER DIGITAL
Sight Power Digital – 51% owned by Rootz 031 (PTY) LTD, is a digital mining technology business that offers clients customised solutions to address unique challenges in mining operations. These services include corporate geological and mining information support; automated geological mapping; powerful tools for geological modelling; mine design, planning and surveying.
Clients get to be provided with highly technologically advanced systems that give them access to their mine’s digital twin, spatial data volumes, web portals for remote access as well as tools for assessing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each specialist. The company prides itself on its ability to provide turn-key solutions for various customers within the mining value chain.
KWENA ENGINEERING
Kwena Engineering is a Botswana-based, privately owned company involved in mining business services. It is one of the subsidiary companies of Kwena Mining Group specializing in underground contract mining; surface contract mining; production drill and blast and reverse (RC) circulation drilling; project management as well as Cost Engineering.
The company is 100% owned and controlled by historically disadvantaged professionals from both Botswana and South Africa and offers performance-based solutions to reduce high inputs cost while improving production. Kwena Engineering’s model significantly increases clients’ profit margins while reducing up-front costs and risks.
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