KPMC is a niche BEE project management and engineering company, specialising in combining the practicalities of mining, the challenges of logistics and the volumes of bulk materials handling with innovative solutions and experience.

Australia’s underground mining industry is a challenging arena to work in, yet for mining and tunnelling services provider Jennmar Australia, it is these challenges that have brought about its success.

Howden Africa, part of Howden Global, is showing impressive growth in meeting the needs of the burgeoning resources industry in Africa, providing ventilation and cooling systems, dust scrubbers and flue gas conditioning systems to the continent’s mines.

Build, own, operate, transfer (BOOT) is an attractive model for delivering infrastructure projects efficiently; and Ghana Water Company Limited is becoming wedded to the idea as it strives to expand its network.

National Grid UK has signed a deal with global renewable energy developer Element Power, awarding it a firm grid connection of 3,000 megawatts.

The agreement enables Element Power to progress ‘Greenwire’—a series of connected projects exporting wind power generated in the Midlands of Ireland to consumers in the UK, via two independent subsea cables.

Terra Nova Minerals Inc. has signed an agreement with Geokinetics (Australia) Pty. Ltd. of Brisbane, for a 127 square kilometre 3D seismic survey.

Geokinetics will undertake the survey on the northern boundary of Petroleum Exploration License (PEL) 112 on the western flank of the Cooper Eromanga Basin in South Australia.

The survey is expected to commence in early August 2012 and will include the shooting and processing of the 3D data acquired. Crews are currently in the field completing line clearing and survey work.

Harvest Gold Corporation has reached terms with San Gold Corp. to sell its CUD 3 claim in the Rice Lake Gold Belt in Manitoba, Canada.

The CUD claim is located 7 km from the gold mining community of Bissett, Manitoba, where San Gold operates two mines and a mill.

San Gold will acquire 100 percent of the CUD 3 claim in return for a payment of $225,000 to Harvest Gold, and will pay a further sum of $225,000 if and when any gold is produced from the CUD 3 claim.

The UK’s transport secretary is expected to unveil £9 billion of investment for UK railways later today.

The UK rail investment plan for 2014 to 2019, to be unveiled by transport secretary Justine Greening, includes a commitment to provide electric trains on the Midland Main Line from Bedford to Sheffield and Leicester; on local lines in the Welsh Valleys, and between Manchester and Leeds.