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Sabine Dall’Omo the CEO of Siemens South Africa and her team together with Professor Sunil Maharaj (Dean of EBIT) visited the Department of Mining Engineering and were given a tour through the Virtual Reality Centre by Professor Ronny Webber-Youngman (HOD)

The Klipspruit Colliery was extremely exciting as the BE1570W Dragline was on maintenance and the students had the opportunity to stand very close to the huge earth moving monster. During onsite discussions the students were also made aware of some of the challenges the mine and the industry as a whole is currently facing. During the second visit, GoldOne Modder-East operations (in the Springs...

\u00a0 Prof Sunil Maharaj opened the MASUP annual General Meeting on Friday 25 May 2018. The meeting was well attended by senior officials from the mining industry, university personnel and final year mining students. The meeting took on a new improved format focus on information sharing and decisions made rather than a general complain meeting. Prof Norman Duncan – Vice principal Academics...

On the 31 st of January 2018, the Mining Department of the University of Pretoria formally welcomed all the First year Mining students. The HOD (Prof Ronny Webber-Youngman) shared useful information about the Department; and they were later taken to the VR (Virtual Reality) Centre where they were exposed to our world class facility. \u00a0

The MASUP AGM took place on Friday 20th of May 2016 in the Mining Industry Study Centre exhibition hall. We were honoured by the attendance of Dr. Frik de Frey this year, to whom we are especially grateful for his loyal support of the Department of Mining Engineering over the many years. \u00a0 Prof. R. Webber-Youngman and Dr. Frik de Frey The following students received awards for exceptional...

SAIMM Student Colloquium – 2015 The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy has been organising and presenting an annual Student Colloquium since 2002, to give the best final year mining and metallurgical students from most Southern African academic institutions an opportunity to present their final year projects to a mining and metallurgical audience. This year, the Mining Engineering...

This again became obvious when UP won the bid to present the annual conference of the Society of Mining Professors (SOMP) in 2014. At the same time, Prof Ronny Webber-Youngman, head of UP’s Department of Mining Engineering, has been appointed president elect of the Society for the same period. He is currently serving on the Society’s executive committee for mining schools in Africa. “This...

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