9World of Mining Surface Underground 67 2015 No 1 konzern PGE SA an der Einheit interessiert sein die mit 2 bis 3 Mrd bewertet wird Den Finanzinvestoren Blackstone CVC und KKR wird ebenfalls Interesse nach gesagt Die Ausgliederung ist Teil einer größeren Neuorganisation des Konzerns Die regionale Aufteilung Europa und Skandinavien Geschäft wird ab April auf gelöst Stattdessen wird es mit den Sparten Wärme Windkraft Kunden und Lösungen Übertragungs und Verteilnetzbetrieb Er zeugung sowie Handel und Märkte künftig sechs Geschäftseinheiten geben Damit scheint auch klar dass sich Vattenfall nicht vollständig aus Deutschland zurückziehen wird Der Konzern will sich auf Drängen der schwedischen Regierung künftig stärker auf erneuerbare Energien konzentrieren HB v 16 17 1 2015 Divestment of RWE Dea for an enterprise value of 5 bn RWE AG and LetterOne Group have agreed to complete the sale of RWE Dea in its entirety by early March 2015 at the latest An enterprise value of ca 5 bn based on current exchange rates has been agreed The adjustment to the value communicated in March 2014 reflects developments relat ing to certain exploration and production licenses As part of the revised transaction LetterOne Group will keep Dea UK separate from the remaining RWE Dea activities for a number of years In the unlikely event that sanctions on LetterOne or its owners were imposed RWE will retain the obligation to re purchase the UK business during the first year post completion of the sale of RWE Dea If triggered this acquisition would be carried out on the basis of a pre determined purchase price formula in order to proceed with a subsequent on sale of the UK business to an independent third party buyer The closing of the transaction will now only be subject to the approval of the Supervisory Board of RWE AG and the non occurrence of a material adverse change in RWE Dea s business as customary in transactions of this size Press Release January 16 2015 BHP Billiton to cut jobs at Olympic Dam in South Australia BHP Billiton is to cut jobs at its Olympic Dam project Figure 2 in South Australia amidst a slump in commodity prices The mining company which is yet to confirm the number of job losses said that there are plans to redeploy some workers to either Olympic Dam in South Australia or elsewhere in its operations The re deployment process is expected to be completed later in 2015 and up until then the company will not be able to determine a net figure for workforce redundancies According to SA Opposition Leader Steven Marshall there may be as many as 300 redundancies Out of this 100 positions are expected to be allocated for the Olym pic Dam expansion plan South Australia Premier Jay Weatherill said It s still the largest underground mine in the nation According to Weatherill thousands of peo ple are employed at the mine and major changes are coming up Olympic Dam is a multi mineral ore body containing uranium oxide copper gold and silver mining technology com January 30 2015 Glencore to close several coal mines in South Africa Glencore is considering shutting some of its coal mining operations in South Africa due to a slump in commodity prices The company s decision is aimed at reducing its overall production in the country by at least 5 mill t a of coal which will impact around 1070 jobs This latest announcement fol lows a review of Glencore s Optimum Coal subsidiary which was set up to tackle ongoing financial difficulties at Optimum According to the company the Optimum open cast operations major portions of the coal processing plants and associated support services could be included in the closure and would be placed on care and maintenance The company plans to re open the plants when economic conditions improve Optimum is claimed to produce 10 mill t of saleable coal a year from open cast and underground mines Half of the coal is bought domestically by Eskom power utility while the other half is exported In order to ensure a continued supply of coal to the utility s coal fired Hendrina power station Optimum proposes to retain the underground mining operations and suf ficient processing capacity Optimum will explore various options for redeployment across the Glencore s coal operations in South African and plans to offer support services for employees mining technology com January 29 2015 First Quantum starts up copper mine in Zambia amid tax row First Quantum Minerals Ltd is starting up a Zambian copper mine to feed an 850 mil lion smelter the Canadian producer began operating amid friction between the mining industry and government over tax changes Kansanshi Smelter will produce 300 000 to 350 000 t a of copper The 1 9 billion Sentinel mine will produce 270 000 to 300 000 t a of copper metal in concen trate The Vancouver based company with operations from Africa to Australia this year delayed plans to almost double the size of the smelter due to Zambia s fiscal uncer tainty A new tax regime from January 1 is another issue Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda s budget including a law replac ing corporate income tax for mining compa nies with higher royalties won approval this month from parliament Levies will increase to 20 from 6 for open cast mines and expand to 8 from 6 for underground mines The change which prompted Bar rick Gold Corp to halt its Lumwana mine may lead to 12 000 job losses in the indus try next year Zambia s mining lobby said It may also push companies like Glencore Plc and First Quantum to cancel projects and cut Zambia s copper output by more than 158 000 t next year the Chamber of Mines said in a statement on December 19 The company last year completed its biggest acquisition adding the Cobre Panama project through the purchase of Inmet Mining Corp It s investing 6 43 bn in the site to produce 320 000 t of copper in 2018 and become the fifth largest supplier This year it agreed to buy Lumina Copper Corp for 430 mill to add the Taca Taca deposit in Argentina Bloomberg News December 31 2014 Harmony Gold and Newcrest to invest 2 3 bn in Papua New Guinea mine development Harmony Gold Mining and Newcrest Min ing are set to invest 2 3 bn in developing their Golpu deposit in Papua New Guinea Harmony and Newcrest each own 50 of the Golpu project through the Wafi Golpu Joint Venture WGJV The companies will advance the project to feasibility study stage which covers the first stage of Fig 2 BHP Billiton s Olympic Dam Photo BHP Billiton News

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