Debmarine Namibia Supports Regional and Continental Netball Tournaments

Debmarine Namibia Supports Regional and Continental Netball Tournaments

Netball Namibia successfully hosted the Debmarine Namibia Pent Series Netball Tournament from 1-5 November 2021 in Windhoek. Uganda was crowned championship of the 2021 Debmarine Pent Series for the first time ahead of Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, and Kenya. Debmarine Namibia has been a proud sponsor of Netball Namibia for more than three years with […]

Namdeb CaSI team visit B2Gold

Namdeb Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Impact Team Visit B2Gold

Namdeb’s Corporate Affairs and Social Impact (CaSi) team is a newly formed department under the leadership of Pauline Thomas. It is made up of the Communications, Branding, Positive Legacy, Social Impact and Building Forever (Sustainability) team members. With the continued focus on doing the right things today for a better tomorrow, the CaSi team recently […]

Rossing recognises its employees

Rössing Uranium Recognises its Employees

Rössing Uranium hosted it’s Making A Difference (MAD) awards ceremony, to celebrate the outstanding contributions of employees towards Business Value, Health, Safety & Environment, Replication, Community Involvement, Team Membership and Living Our Values.   Speaking at the annual event, Rössing’s Managing Director, Johan Coetzee said, at Rössing we believe that developing and recognising the efforts of […]

NUI Celebrates Cultural Diversity

Staff members of the Namibian Uranium Institute participated in this year’s Heritage Week competition organized by the Scientific Society Swakpmund. The theme of the Heritage Week was “Fashion – the thread that binds us together” and the public was invited to send photos of people wearing traditional attire. At the Namibian Uranium Institute, cultural diversity […]

Dependable and Cost Effective Energy for Namibian Mines

Dependable and Cost Effective Energy for Namibian Mines

By Hilifa Mbako – President of the Chamber of Mines of Namibia My brief paper is intended to outline the significance of dependable and cost-effective energy supply for mines and industrial users in Namibia and suggests how electricity should be provided through a sustainable electricity grid. Importance of Energy for Mining From a generalist point […]

Chamber Announces new Exco for 2021 - 2023

Chamber Announces New Office Bearers for 2021 – 2023

The Chamber welcomes the new Office Bearers who will be serving on the Chamber of Mines Executive Committee from 2021 to 2023: President:  Mr. Hilifa Mbako, Executive Chairperson of Orano Mining Namiba 1st Vice President: Mr. Irvinne Simataa, Vice President, Mining Operations, Swakop Uranium 2nd Vice President: Mr. Zebra Kasete, Vice President and Managing Director, […]

Chamber Supports Court Ruling on Marine Phosphate Mining

On 30 June 2021, the High Court of Namibia delivered its judgement on the validity of Namibia Marine Phosphate’s (NMP) Mining Licence. The judgement ruled that NMP’s Mining Licence is indeed valid, as granted: “Namibian Marine Phosphate (Pty) Limited’s (“NMP”) Mining Licence ML170 and the rights conferred to NMP thereunder are not affected by the […]

Bannerman Completes Etangi 8 Pre-Feasibility Study

Bannerman completes Etango-8 Pre-Feasibility Study

In April 2012, Bannerman completed a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for the Etango Project. The DFS 2012 was based on a 20 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) heap leach process throughput. Mine planning, engineering design, capital and operating cost estimations were undertaken to an accuracy of ±15%. In March 2015, Bannerman commissioned an industrial scale […]

Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb Concludes Wage Negotiations

DPM Tsumeb Concludes Wage Negotiations With MuN

Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb successfully concluded the substantive negotiations with the Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia, which have been ongoing for the first half of this year. The Recognition and Procedural Agreement entered into between DPM Tsumeb and Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia directs both parties to meet and negotiate on substantive issues including salary increases and […]