Mining Journalism Training (MJT) trainees are offered the opportunity to write about their experience of attending the programme with the winning submission receiving a special prize. All articles that meet the stipulated criteria are published on this platform.
Photos: tour to Phalanndwa mine, Delmas
Bordering the Gauteng and Mpumalanga border, Canyon Coal’s Phalanndwa is nestled between Eskom’s Kendal and Kusile Power Stations, surrounded by other coal mines and tiny communities…
The future of coal mining in South Africa
GM Alan Mabbett said: “ There is still life in the coal industry, though many countries are changing to renewable energy, there are many countries in Europe that use coal like most African countries”…
The 2017 free mining journalism tour to Phalanndwa Colliery mine
The sites visits were done with the goal of informing media scholars about the production processes in the mining sector and give them clarity of covering stories about mining beats…
Colliery visit promotes coal interest
However, it is curious that there are those who are adamant that the use of coal for power generation be stamped out for environmental reasons, especially while clean coal technologies exist…
Mining and media towards the future of civilization
The sustainability of a capital-intensive industry like mining will hinge on how much investment is made in the sectors such as education, skills development and community empowerment…
Canyon Coal’s Phalanndwa Colliery
Phalanndwa Colliery is vast and its scenarios are captivating, from the allocation of equipment and machinery, the colours of different soil layers and texture and to the heaps of coal and sand…
The colossal space of Phalanndwa Canyon Coal
Canyon Coal developed the SLP implementation to help around the neighboring area with employments (about 84% of the employees reside in the Victor khanye Municipality and…
Is mining a place for women? Canyon Coal proves that it does
The paradigm that there are activities that are best performed by the male is being broken little by little. Canyon Coal shows that although we live in a sexist and unequal society, there is hope...