HRD PipelineHRD PipelineSMME

- Artisanal & Small Scale Mining

- Jewellery Training Programme

HIGH SCHOOL

- ABET & basic skills

- Grade 11-12Girls’ Programme

- Maths & Science upgrading, etc- Mintek Science Quiz (MINQUIZ)

- Mintek Engineering Awareness Programme (MEAP), etc

SCIENCE PROMOTION

TECHNICAL- Technician-in-Training

- Engineer-in-Training

BURSARY SCHEME- Undergraduate

- Post graduate (Masters, PhDs)

HIGH LEVEL SKILLS- Joint R&D with HEIs, Industry...

- Symposia, conferences, etc

• 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)

Human Resource Human Resource Development Development

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AreaMineral Processing

Hydrometallurgy

Biotechnology

Pyrometallurgy

Physical Metallurgy

Environmental & SD

Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining

Mineral Economics & Strategies

Kgabane (jewellery)

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Type

Innovative

Development

Routine

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Clients

State

Corporate

Operating Plants

Engineering

Companies

SMMEs

Aim: To exceed our clients Aim: To exceed our clients expectationsexpectations

Aim: To exceed our clients Aim: To exceed our clients expectationsexpectations

Gold & uranium

Platinum metals

Ferrous metals

Industrial

minerals

Non-Ferrous

Process ControlDC Arc FurnacesJigsMinataursAtomijets PMsAdded-value Precious MetalsMinfurns

ProductsProductsProductsProducts

R&D Highlights - goldR&D Highlights - goldR&D Highlights - goldR&D Highlights - goldProject 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

R&D Highlights - PGMsR&D Highlights - PGMsR&D Highlights - PGMsR&D 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

R&D Highlights - ferrous metalsR&D Highlights - ferrous metalsR&D Highlights - ferrous metalsR&D 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”.