1. HRD Pipeline SMME - Artisanal & Small Scale Mining - Jewellery Training Programme HIGH SCHOOL - ABET & basic skills - Grade 11-12Girls’ Programme - Maths & Science upgrading, etc - Mintek Science Quiz (MINQUIZ) - Mintek Engineering Awareness Programme (MEAP), etc SCIENCE PROMOTION TECHNICAL - Technician-in-Training - Engineer-in-Training BURSARY SCHEME - Undergraduate - Post graduate (Masters, PhDs) HIGH LEVEL SKILLS - Joint R&D with HEIs, Industry... - Symposia, conferences, etc

2. 45 Undergraduate Bursary students (86% of DG) 35 Postgraduate Bursary students (85% of DG) 15 Scholarships have been issued 30 University of Technology training students (100% of DG) Grade 11-12 Girls’ Programme (15 learners from Limpopo supported) 12 Mintek Fellows, 7 DST Researcher Development Fellows Innovation fund, THRIP and other industry funds are used to leverage the number of post-graduates. Suports the EduMap Programme (65 learners, 100% HDSA) Adopted a school - Kwadeda in Zola (Soweto), Diepsloot ASSM Training School (MQA) (800 learners, 100% HDSA) Human Resource Development

3. Bursary Programme

4. Area Mineral Processing Hydrometallurgy Biotechnology Pyrometallurgy Physical Metallurgy Environmental & SD Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining Mineral Economics & Strategies Kgabane (jewellery) R&D Service Definition

5. Type Innovative Development Routine R&D Service Definition

6. Clients State Corporate Operating Plants Engineering Companies SMMEs Aim: To exceed our clients expectations Gold & uranium Platinum metals Ferrous metals Industria l minerals Non- Ferrous

7. Process Control DC Arc Furnaces Jigs Minataurs Atomijets PMs Added-value Precious Metals Minfurns ProductsProducts

8. R&D Highlights - gold Project AuTEK: Gold-based catalysts reach product development stage Biomedical & Nanotechnology programmes broadened First Phase of the state of the art Nanotechnology Characterisation Laboratory has been completed Considerable support from NRF (THRIP) and DST Cyanide monitoring on gold plants in Africa. THRIP project on environmental aspects of cyanide usage

9. R&D Highlights - PGMs Conroast smelting for PGM smelting of high Cr concentrates Autocatalysts recycling project (Innovation Fund) New uses for Palladium (DST) High temperature platinum based superalloys (DST, Mining Houses) Testwork to support feasibility studies for several new mining projects. Flotation control implemented in SA, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mexico, South America and Australia. Recovery of PGMs from revert tailings

10. R&D Highlights - ferrous metals Smelting testwork for Shevchenko FeNi project (Kazakhstan) Industrial-scale trials of low-nickel stainless steel (Innovation Fund project) Negotiations to introduce ‘smart’ rockbolt in mining industry Industrial trials of Aluminium grain refiners (aluminothermic production route) Research into the production of a saleable Ti slag from BC magnetites (potential resource 2X global) Assessment of Voskhod FeCr project (Russia) Assessment of iron making technologies (gas & coal based) for several SA and African “prospects”.