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COVER STORY
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MODERN MINING
March 2015
S
ince entering the opencast contract-
ing sector in early 2012, Liviero
Mining has continued to invest in
people and technology to deliver
on major projects, the first being for
Keaton Energy Holdings Limited’s Vanggatfon-
tein Colliery, a brownfield development situat-
ed some 15 km east of Delmas in Mpumalanga.
Keaton Energy supplies 2 and 4 seam washed
thermal coal to Eskom; plus 5 seam low con-
taminant vitrinite dominant bituminous coal
for the domestic metallurgical industry. Liv-
iero was awarded a five-year contract.
Liviero Mining forms part of the Liviero
Group, South Africa’s largest privately owned
multi-disciplinary contractor, which has a
long established track-record and has grown
organically from its initial core building
focus into civil engineering, and then mining.
More recently, this latter capability has been
extended to include a drill and blast in-house
service, with the downstream intention of roll-
ing out the offering to the open market.
“In the past Liviero Civils has been instru-
mental on a number of mine infrastructure
projects, which include major concrete struc-
tures and haul roads,” comments Liviero
Group’s CEO, Neil Cloete. Liviero Civils has a
9CE Construction Industry Development Board
(CIDB) rating.
Milestone construction programmes in
mining include contracts at Sasol Mining’s
Impumelelo Colliery development, situated
within 30 km of the Sasol Secunda refinery in
Mpumalanga. Here Liviero’s scope of works
included a 12 km surfaced road; 26 km of over-
land conveyor line formation, which starts
on the mine and terminates inside the refin-
ery; various earth platforms and gravel access
roads; two bridges; plus multiple reservoirs
and four lined earth settling dams. Meanwhile
at Wesizwe’s Bakubung Platinum Mine (BPM)
greenfield underground project near Sun City
in the Western Bushveld region, Liviero was
responsible for intensive reinforced concrete
pre-sink works, a key portion entailing the col-
laring of the main and ventilation shafts.
Alongside mining, current road construction
works include various South African National
Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) contracts, an
Extracting
the tonnage value
Below:
A Cat D10T
belonging to Liviero in
action at Keaton Energy’s
Vanggatfontein Colliery.
Centre:
The backbone of
the haulage operation at
Vanggatfontein is provided
by 90,5-tonne nominal
payload Cat 777D off-
highway trucks.
Forging ahead on mining, civil and building projects, the
Liviero Group is well positioned for growth across its niche
market segments. In mining, the company is on track to
meet its medium term goal of becoming a mid-tier contrac-
tor at around 50 million BCMs per annum.