HRD Pipeline

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HRD Pipeline
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Human Resource Development

• 45 Undergraduate Bursary students (86 of DG)
• 35 Postgraduate Bursary students (85 of DG)
• 15 Scholarships have been issued
• 30 University of Technology training students
  (100 of DG)
• Grade 11-12 Girls Programme (15 learners from
  Limpopo supported)
• 12 Mintek Fellows, 7 DST Researcher Development
  Fellows
• Innovation fund, THRIP and other industry funds
  are used to leverage the number of
  post-graduates.
• Suports the EduMap Programme (65 learners, 100
  HDSA)
• Adopted a school - Kwadeda in Zola (Soweto),
  Diepsloot
• ASSM Training School (MQA) (800 learners, 100
  HDSA)

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Bursary Programme
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RD Service Definition
Area Mineral Processing Hydrometallurgy Biotech
nology Pyrometallurgy Physical
Metallurgy Environmental SD Artisanal
Small-Scale Mining Mineral Economics
Strategies Kgabane (jewellery)
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RD Service Definition
Type Innovative Development Routine
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Aim To exceed our clients expectations
Clients State Corporate Operating
Plants Engineering Companies SMMEs
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Products
Process Control DC Arc Furnaces Jigs Minataurs Ato
mijets PMs Added-value Precious Metals Minfurns
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RD Highlights - gold

• Project AuTEK
• Gold-based catalysts reach product development
  stage
• Biomedical Nanotechnology programmes broadened
• First Phase of the state of the art
  Nanotechnology Characterisation Laboratory has
  been completed
• Considerable support from NRF (THRIP) and DST

• Cyanide monitoring on gold plants in Africa.
• THRIP project on environmental aspects of cyanide
  usage

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RD Highlights - PGMs

• Conroast smelting for PGM smelting of high Cr
  concentrates
• Autocatalysts recycling project (Innovation Fund)
• New uses for Palladium (DST)
• High temperature platinum based superalloys (DST,
  Mining Houses)
• Testwork to support feasibility studies for
  several new mining projects.
• Flotation control implemented in SA, Botswana,
  Zimbabwe, Mexico, South America and Australia.
• Recovery of PGMs from revert tailings

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RD Highlights - ferrous metals

• Smelting testwork for Shevchenko FeNi project
  (Kazakhstan)
• Industrial-scale trials of low-nickel stainless
  steel (Innovation Fund project)
• Negotiations to introduce smart rockbolt in
  mining industry
• Industrial trials of Aluminium grain refiners
  (aluminothermic production route)
• Research into the production of a saleable Ti
  slag from BC magnetites (potential resource 2X
  global)
• Assessment of Voskhod FeCr project (Russia)
• Assessment of iron making technologies (gas
  coal based) for several SA and African
  prospects.