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Phalaborwa is home to Palabora Mining.The massive open pit mine, nearly 2,000 meters across, is Africa's widest manmade hole. Founded in 1951, Foskor's Mining Division in Phalaborwa mines phosphate rock (foskorite and pyroxenite), from which Foskor's Acid Division in Richards Bay produces phosphoric acid and phosphate-based granular fertilisers for local and international markets.
Most of the people in Namakgale are employed in mining, namely Palabora Mining Company, Sasol Agri and FOSKOR. The majority of the residence of Namakgale speak Northern Sotho language , with the Sepulana, KhePhalaborwa and KheLobedu dialects being the most predominantly spoken forms, is the first language of about 70% of the people.
Palabora Mining Company Limited (founded August 1956) is a publicly traded mining company headquartered in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province, South Africa. The company operates a single cluster of open-pit and underground mines producing mainly copper as well as byproducts such as precious metals from anode slimes, nickel sulfate, sulfuric acid, magnetite, and vermiculite.
A tender announcement from the Indonesian Ministry of Finance. An invitation to tender (ITT, also known as a call for bids [1] or a request for tenders) is a formal, structured procedure for generating competing offers from different potential suppliers or contractors looking to obtain an award of business activity in works, supply, or service contracts, often from companies who have been ...
The main functions of the Fiji Procurement Office are to regulate and administer the procurement of goods, service and works for the government. [176] The Government Tender Board is "constituted with authority to approve all procurement of goods, services and works valued at FJ$50,001 and more".
The tender board of the Namibian government has been established by the Tender Board Act. 16 of 1996. [1] Preference is given to local companies if possible. Since early 2010, all unskilled and semi-skilled labour must be sourced from within Namibia in order to qualify for government tenders. [2] Namibia is not a democratic country.
Blue Horizon Investments (24%) and RBM permanent employees (2%) also have an interest in the mine. Prior to 2012, BHP Billiton owned 37% but that interest was later purchased by Rio Tinto in February 2012. [3] In April 2019, Rio Tinto announced an investment into the Zulti South project, which is located south of Richards Bay. [4]
Mining operations around Steelpoort include the Dwarsrivier chrome mine (30 km from Steelpoort, located in Mpumalanga) [3] owned by Assmang, Tweefontein chrome mine and Tubatse Ferrochrome, owned by Samancor, Two Rivers and Modikwa platinum mines managed by Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Minerals, as well as Mototolo platinum mine and the ...