Sponsors of the 2014 Joburg Indaba
KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services whose aim is to turn understanding of information, industries, and business trends into value.
As mining companies move throughout the mining asset life cycle, an organization encounters different challenges in order to maintain growth and profitability.
KPMG’s experienced team of mining specialists can assist clients throughout the entire mining asset life cycle.
Our people are deeply experienced in the industry and are knowledgeable of local laws, customs and practices and aware of the challenges faced across the life cycle.
The 2014 Joburg Indaba on "Investing in Resources and Mining in Africa" will draw together the industry leaders, influential CEOs, investors, and custodians of the industry.
2014 Sponsor rights packages are now available. Sponsors of the inaugural event had this to say "we will remain involved because the topics and discussions were to the point and relevant”.
The calibre of speakers and delegates include a large portion of executive leadership from mining houses, investment companies, and fund managers who direct local, African and global operations. "I enjoyed preparing for the presentation ... a tremendous success and witnessed considerable publicity".
This is a conference with a difference providing sponsors alternative ways to expose their brands, products and services to a relevant target audience. Tiered packages to suit all budgets have been developed and include publicity and marketing elements to realise a return on investment.
To get your brand highly exposed to a relevant and significant industry email sponsorship@joburgindaba.com today!
PLATINUM SPONSORS
African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is a leading South African diversified mining and minerals company with long-life, low unit cost operations and significant growth opportunities.
ARM mines and beneficiates iron ore, manganese ore and alloys, chrome ore and alloys, platinum group metals, copper, nickel and coal. ARM also has an investment in gold through its shareholding in Harmony.
ARM’s strategy is focused on quality growth within its portfolio of assets and ensuring that all ARM’s operations are positioned below the 50th percentile of each commodity’s global cost curve. This is achieved, in conjunction with ARM’s joint venture partners, through volume growth and continuous improvement in operational efficiencies. In 2010 ARM successfully achieved its 2 X 2010 strategy to double production in its diversified portfolio of assets, and in 2012 ARM delivered its iron ore, coal and nickel growth projects. ARM’s growth of existing assets is supplemented by continuous assessment of acquisition and partnership opportunities and exploration in Africa.
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GOLD SPONSOR
KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services whose aim is to turn understanding of information, industries, and business trends into value.
As mining companies move throughout the mining asset life cycle, an organization encounters different challenges in order to maintain growth and profitability.
KPMG’s experienced team of mining specialists can assist clients throughout the entire mining asset life cycle. Our people are deeply experienced in the industry and are knowledgeable of local laws, customs and practices and aware of the challenges faced across the life cycle.
GOLD SPONSOR
The MSA Group, Africa’s leading mineral exploration consultant, has entrenched itself as a trusted and holistic service provider and contractor for 30 years. Our track record is synonymous with quality, technical integrity and safety compliance.
MSA provides specialist services on numerous international and local projects covering all commodities. The MSA Group’s client base includes the largest multi-national mining companies, private equity and sovereign wealth funds, governments and juniors listed throughout the world. MSA has worked on 5 continents and in over 40 countries.
The MSA Group’s services encompass Exploration and Geology, Mining Studies and Environmental Consulting. Our services range from targeting and initial assessment to turn-key exploration and project management of multidisciplinary programmes culminating in geological and Mineral Resource modelling, Mineral Resource estimations, public reporting to all of the major stock exchanges (TSX, ASX, AIM, JSE, et al.), project valuations, due diligence studies and scoping to feasibility study management.
MSA is ISO 9001:2008 Certified for quality, OHSAS 18001 accredited for Health and Safety and SANAS ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited for its diamond exploration laboratories.
GOLD SPONSOR
Eunomix specialises in de-risking resource and commodities projects in Africa, a destination of ever greater global strategic value.
It helps clients achieve and sustain success in the face of political, regulatory, economic, social, infrastructure and security uncertainty, instability and incidents. Registered in London, it has been advising business and governments since 2009. It has been featured in leading media like the BBC, Bloomberg, Business Day, Business Week, CNBC Africa, Financial Mail, Mineweb, MiningMX, Mining Weekly, Reuters and The Sowetan. Eunomix is a fast growing provider of insight and advice that are thoughtful, unequivocal and progressive.
Endorsements
"Eunomix is a “strategic partner” to our exploration and mining projects, particularly in high risk geopolitics, infrastructure and security. Their depth of understanding and analysis is of the highest level. The value they have added to our projects is significant"
Anton Mauve, Managing Director, West African Minerals Corp. Eunomix has a deep understanding of external, political, economic and social risks inherent in many African mining projects. The company's input is valuable in determining areas of vulnerability that may be present in even the most technically-robust projects."
GOLD SPONSOR
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), a division of FirstRand Bank Limited is a leading African corporate and investment bank and part of one of the largest financial services groups in Africa. We offer our clients innovative, value-added advisory, funding, trading, corporate banking and principal investing solutions.
We have representative offices and subsidiaries in the UK, India, China, and the Middle East and access to a network of retail banks in 25 African countries.
We value mutually rewarding relationships and constantly question existing models and develop innovative and bespoke solutions to deliver on our business philosophy and brand promise: Traditional values. Innovative ideas.
For more information please visit: www.rmb.co.za.
SPONSORS
Wesizwe Platinum is a public company incorporated in the Republic of South Africa with its shares listed on the JSE Limited. Wesizwe, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries Bakubung Minerals (Pty) Limited and Africa Wide Mineral Prospecting and Exploration (Pty) Limited, is engaged in the development of its Bakubung Platinum Mine.
The mine site is located in the Western Limb of the Bushveld Complex, close to the town of Rustenburg in the North West Province of South Africa. Wesizwe's strategic intent is to build and operate South Africa's next PGM mine, firmly positioning the Group as a significant mid-tier precious metals producer.
At steady state production, the mine will produce 350 koz 4E per annum. Following the conclusion of the financing transaction with a consortium made up of a Chinese mining company, Jinchuan, and the China Africa Development Fund (CAD Fund) in May 2011, the project is well funded. Wesizwe Platinum also has a 26% interest in neighbouring Projects 1 and 3 of Maseve Investments 11 (Pty) Ltd ("Maseve") operated by Platinum Group Metals Limited (PTM) Canada
Ivanhoe Mines, with offices in Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa, is developing its three principal projects:
- The Kamoa copper discovery in a previously unknown extension of the Central African Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern province of Katanga.
- The Platreef discovery of platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, gold and rhodium on the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa.
- The historic, high-grade Kipushi zinc, copper and germanium mine, also on the Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province, now being drilled and upgraded by Ivanhoe. Kipushi was operated and maintained by previous owners between 1924 and 2011, when Ivanhoe acquired its majority interest in the mine.
Barnstone is the service provider of choice for Enterprise Resourcing Planning Market with its SAP Mining Solution for Mid-Tier mines.
The Barnstone SAP Mining Solution is a proprietary “out of the box” SAP system for the implementation and configuration of the SAP Software intended to be used in a mining environment.
It has been approved by SAP globally. This solution is available in multiple languages spoken across the African Continent.
Barnstone also provides mobility solutions for mines across Africa
Furthermore, Barnstone is your partner of choice for implementing your Social and Labour Plan through advisory and technology solutions for SLP
www.barnstone.co.za
Wesizwe Platinum is a public company incorporated in the Republic of South Africa with its shares listed on the JSE Limited. Wesizwe, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries Bakubung Minerals (Pty) Limited and Africa Wide Mineral Prospecting and Exploration (Pty) Limited, is engaged in the development of its Bakubung Platinum Mine.
The mine site is located in the Western Limb of the Bushveld Complex, close to the town of Rustenburg in the North West Province of South Africa. Wesizwe's strategic intent is to build and operate South Africa's next PGM mine, firmly positioning the Group as a significant mid-tier precious metals producer. At steady state production, the mine will produce 350 koz 4E per annum. Following the conclusion of the financing transaction with a consortium made up of a Chinese mining company, Jinchuan, and the China Africa Development Fund (CAD Fund) in May 2011, the project is well funded. Wesizwe Platinum also has a 26% interest in neighbouring Projects 1 and 3 of Maseve Investments 11 (Pty) Ltd ("Maseve") operated by Platinum Group Metals Limited (PTM) Canada.
Positive steps to secure South Africa’s future energy mix
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Positive steps to secure South Africa’s future energy mix
(Johannesburg 11 September 2014) Updated in November last year, the very ambitious Integrated Resources Plan for 2010-2030, states its main aim is to reduce South Africa’s reliance on coal in electricity generation to below 50% by 2030.
In procuring renewable energy the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme(REIPPP) has been quite successful as a programme. However its procurement target of 3,625MW, over an initial five tender rounds, is set at less than 10% of South Africa’s total power capacity of 43,000MW. There is also concern that it will take a few years to construct and add this base requirement to the national grid.
Although limited, South Africa has other renewable energy power generation capacity, stemming from hydro-power, pumped storage, and nuclear. Hydropower capacity is being sourced from the Ingula Pumped storage scheme, providing some 1300MW in the first of four units, set to come online in mid-2015.
Regional power schemes, from renewable energy sources are also being pursued, with the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Inga project being the most prominent. Inga has the potential to generate 40,000MW of power, unfortunately the timeframe on this being fully operational is highly uncertain. Inga is proposed to be rolled out in six phases, the first of which is set to generate only 4,300MW, of which South Africa will procure 2,500MW. Construction on phase one is only likely to begin in 2016/17, meaning it could be some time before South Africa benefits from this capacity source.
As outlined in this year’s State of the Nation address and mentioned in the budget speech, South Africa’s biggest single renewable energy project goal is the development of new nuclear power plants, of which the government is targeting an additional 9,600MW of nuclear energy capacity.
In 2013, just over 94% of South Africa’s electricity generation mix came from coal-fired power stations. The remainder came from gas power plants, the diesel-fired open-cycle gas turbines, which are very expensive to run and have been used extensively during power shortages, and from renewable sources, being mainly Koeberg.
“The biggest constraints to growing South Africa’s energy production capacity, including increasing the percentage of renewable energy, are the inefficiencies of Eskom, government interference, and the huge financial resources needed to fund its current and future energy projects, “ states Claude Baissac, CEO of Eunomix and a recognised country and political risk expert.
Coupled with SA’s agreement on global Greenhouse Emission Policies which knock our overextended and major supplier of energy, coal, what options does this country have?
South Africa’s energy crisis has been caused by poor planning and the inefficiency of the government and its state owned enterprise, Eskom.
“Plans are underway to build on South Africa’s power capacity to match current and future demand. One of the major current issues is that South Africa commissioned two huge new coal-fired power plants, namely Medupi and Kusile, with a third in the offing, ‘Coal 3’. At full capacity, these three power plants will add over 10,000MW of additional coal-fired power to the grid, therefore diluting some of the gains made in increasing the percentage of non-coal power projects in South Africa,” adds Baissac.
South Africa has many options for reducing the reliance on coal. Potentially the greatest source of future energy supply could come in come in the form of additional renewable energy sourced locally and from the near region, off-shore gas deposits coming from gas imports from Namibia and from Mozambique, which holds the world’s fourth largest gas reserves and coal-bed methane.
Lastly and probably most importantly is shale gas however details of a shale gas programme are yet to be finalized.
In terms of solving Eskom’s efficiency problems, one option for South Africa is to partly privatize Eskom, ready suggested by some parts of South Africa’s cabinet.
“There needs to be a concerted effort from the South African government to ensure Eskom acts as an efficient company, perhaps more restructuring. Lastly, Eskom could allow more independent power producers to increase their role in supplying power to areas that are experiencing particular shortages or are energy-intensive users,” concludes Baissac.
Baissac joins other leading experts in the mining and resources sectors at next month’s Joburg Indaba to explore other opportunities to increase and secure renewable energy production in South Africa.
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