Announcements

The first issue of the monthly Coaltech Research Brief is out. Mintek filed its final report on biological brine treatment, giving water teams a third route beside evaporation ponds and crystallisers. Building components made from coal discards passed their composite evaluation at Wits, completing that project’s technical work. The University of Johannesburg completed its first

Coaltech has merged its Mining research portfolio, including Geosciences, and its Coal Processing portfolio into a single structure: the Integrated Mining and Processing Research Focus Area. For the members, host institutions and researchers who fund and deliver the work, the change means one coordinated research pipeline across the full coal value chain, from run of

Coaltech and its programme partners, among them the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Eskom, have formally initiated Phase 1 of the High Efficiency Low Emission Circulating Fluidised Bed Clean Coal Technology Localisation Programme. The initiative supports the direction set out in the Integrated Resource Plan 2025, which sets out how South Africa intends

Coaltech has appointed two coal processing professionals to the leadership of its Coal Processing Steering Committee. Ms Vicky van Schalk Wyk, Group Metallurgist at Glencore Coal, takes the chair. She brings more than twenty years in the mining industry and has led major plant commissioning, optimisation and capital expansion work. Ms Sandra Magagula, Group Metallurgist