Mining contractors in South Africa: the directory
Mining contractors in South Africa: 36 companies in contract mining, load and haul, drill and blast, crushing and plant hire, dated from public sources.
Contents 6 sections
This directory lists 36 South African companies that do contract mining or mining services for mine owners. Their work covers opencast contract mining, load and haul, drill and blast, crushing and screening, plant hire into mines and underground development. Every entry was read from the company’s own website or a dated public source, and each one carries the date we checked it.
How we build the directory
We use public company information only. For each company we read its own website, and for listed groups its results or JSE announcements. We list a company only when something dated 2025 or 2026 shows it is working now. That can be a dated page on its own site, a results booklet or a trade press report.
A company is listed when it meets all of these tests:
- It offers mining work to other companies’ mines in South Africa, whether that is the whole pit or one service such as blasting, crushing or plant hire.
- A dated item from 2025 or 2026 shows it is operating now.
- It is a contractor. Companies that only mine their own deposits, equipment dealers and manufacturers, consultancies, road hauliers and sellers of mining software are left out.
Explosives manufacturers are listed only where their own pages describe blasting work done by their people on mine sites. The table marks them as explosives suppliers with blasting services.
The services column uses a fixed list of seven services, and we tag a service only where the company says it offers it. Provinces are the ones a company names or where it has an office. “Not stated” means the company does not say. The summary in each row is our own plain description of what the company says it does. It is not a rating.
We record company information only: no names of staff and no personal contact details. The website link is the company’s own. Nobody pays to be listed, and the order is alphabetical. To correct, add or remove a listing, use the contact page.
Contractors by service
A company can offer more than one service, so the counts add up to more than 36.
| Service | Companies |
|---|---|
| load and haul | 14 |
| drill and blast | 20 |
| opencast contract mining | 15 |
| crushing and screening | 17 |
| plant hire | 11 |
| underground development | 8 |
| mining services | 22 |
Mining contractors in South Africa, A to Z
36 companies, A to Z. Company names link to their own websites.
Showing 36 of 36 companies
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| Company | What they do | Services | Provinces | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africoal SA | Mpumalanga coal company that develops its own coal assets and also sells opencast contract mining, processing, plant hire and rehabilitation to other mine owners. Source. | drill and blast, opencast contract mining, plant hire, mining services | Mpumalanga | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Afrimat | JSE-listed materials and mining group with a contract mining unit that plans mines, drills, blasts, loads, hauls and crushes for outside clients. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, mining services | Not stated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Almin Projects | Rustenburg drill and blast contractor doing production blast hole drilling and controlled blasting on opencast mines, plus blast monitoring and grouting. Source. | drill and blast | Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Amandla Awethu Projects | Contractor doing load and haul, opencast mining, crushing and screening, drilling and blasting, rehabilitation and plant hire for mines and industrial sites. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, plant hire, mining services | Gauteng, Mpumalanga | 25 Sept 2026 |
| B&E International | Raubex Group company that supplies and runs contract crushing and screening plants at mines and quarries, and does mineral processing work. Source. | crushing and screening, mining services | Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga. Also: Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia | 25 Sept 2026 |
| BME | Omnia group explosives company that also runs blasting on client mines, from charging holes to managing the whole blasting operation. Source. | drill and blast (explosives supplier with blasting services) | Not stated. Also: Australia, Indonesia | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Brauteseth Blasting | KwaZulu-Natal firm, founded in 1983, that drills and blasts for opencast mines, quarries and construction projects. Source. | drill and blast | KwaZulu-Natal | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Cementation Africa | Underground contractor that sinks shafts, bores raises, develops mines and runs underground contract mining for mine owners. Source. | underground development | North West, Northern Cape. Also: Zambia | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Concor | Construction group whose mining services division develops opencast mines, strips overburden, extracts ore, blasts, crushes and builds tailings facilities. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, mining services | Not stated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Eco-Match | Mobile crushing and screening contractor that sets up and runs processing plant on site for mining, road and construction projects. Source. | crushing and screening | Gauteng | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Enaex Africa | Explosives company, a joint venture with Sasol, whose teams check drilling and carry out blasting on opencast and underground mine sites. Source. | drill and blast (explosives supplier with blasting services) | Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape. Also: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Fraser Alexander | Outsourcing contractor that operates tailings facilities, materials handling, processing plants, re-mining and water treatment on mine sites. Source. | mining services | Not stated. Also: Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Jackson's Safety Blasters | Controlled blasting contractor that puts hand drilling and blasting teams on opencast mines for secondary breaking and reef removal. Source. | drill and blast | Not stated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| JCI Mining | Opencast contractor based in Middelburg doing load and haul, drilling and blasting, crushing, dewatering, slurry pond clearing, rehabilitation and plant hire. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, plant hire, mining services | Mpumalanga | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Master Drilling Group | JSE-listed drilling contractor that bores raises and shafts and does blast hole, production, exploration and dewatering drilling for mines. Source. | underground development, mining services | Not stated. Also: Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico, Peru | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Mining Plant Hire | Hire company supplying mining equipment, matched load and haul fleets, mobile crushing and screening plant, and lowbed transport. Source. | load and haul, crushing and screening, plant hire | Gauteng | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Minopex | DRA Global company that operates and maintains mineral processing plants, laboratories and water systems, and does mechanised underground contract mining. Source. | underground development, mining services | Northern Cape. Also: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Moolmans | Open-pit contractor owned by Aveng that drills, blasts and moves waste and ore and feeds crushers, with current work on manganese and zinc mines in the Northern Cape. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining | Northern Cape | 25 Sept 2026 |
| MPL Mining | Opencast contractor working from Emalahleni and Rustenburg that drills and blasts, loads and hauls, crushes and screens, and monitors blasts. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, crushing and screening, mining services | Mpumalanga, North West | 25 Sept 2026 |
| MySol Holdings and Logistics | Rustenburg contractor that drills, blasts, loads, hauls, crushes, hires plant and rehabilitates on opencast chrome sites around Mooinooi and Brits. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, plant hire, mining services | North West | 25 Sept 2026 |
| ProBlast Blasting Solutions | Centurion company that drills and blasts and supplies explosives on platinum, chrome, coal and limestone operations. Source. | drill and blast | Gauteng | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Redpath Africa | South African business of the Redpath group doing shaft sinking, raise boring, lateral development and underground construction, including decline work at Mogalakwena. Source. | underground development | Limpopo. Also: Botswana, Zambia | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Ritluka Resources | Emalahleni contractor doing opencast and underground contract mining, drilling and blasting, underground support and ventilation work for mining right holders. Source. | drill and blast, opencast contract mining, underground development, mining services | Mpumalanga | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Rosond | Drilling contractor offering underground development drilling, cover and pack grouting and water and gas control for mines, alongside exploration drilling. Source. | mining services | Gauteng | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Scribante Group | Earthmoving contractor based in Midrand that cuts boxes, strips overburden, mines opencast and rehabilitates, and hires out plant to mines. Source. | opencast contract mining, plant hire, mining services | Gauteng | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Seneca Crushing & Screening | Contractor that runs crushing, screening and beneficiation, including magnetic separation, for mines and quarries, and hires out mobile crushers. Source. | crushing and screening, plant hire, mining services | Gauteng | 25 Sept 2026 |
| SMS Mining | Rustenburg contractor working both surface and underground, from opencast mining, crushing and tailings re-mining to underground development and support installation. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, underground development, mining services | North West | 25 Sept 2026 |
| SPH Kundalila | Raubex Group company that does opencast mining, crushing and screening, loading and hauling, haul road construction and rehabilitation for mining houses. Source. | load and haul, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, plant hire, mining services | North West, Northern Cape, Western Cape | 25 Sept 2026 |
| SSC Group | Group whose mining subsidiaries do underground development and production, shaft sinking, raise boring and mine rehabilitation. Source. | underground development, mining services | Not stated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Stefanutti Stocks | JSE-listed construction group whose mining work covers bulk materials handling and outsourced management and reclamation of tailings storage facilities. Source. | mining services | Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape. Also: Botswana, Eswatini, Zambia | 25 Sept 2026 |
| SupaCrush | Gqeberha contract crusher running mobile crushing units for quarries and mining companies, with drilling, blasting and aggregate supply. Source. | drill and blast, crushing and screening | Eastern Cape | 25 Sept 2026 |
| TAU Mining | Open-pit contractor that drills, blasts, loads, hauls and dumps, and also offers mine planning, surveying, grade control and equipment rental. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, plant hire | Not stated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Trollope Group | Opencast contract miner, in business since 1975, that also runs crushing, materials handling, earthworks, mine infrastructure work, rehabilitation and plant hire. Source. | load and haul, drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, plant hire, mining services | Not stated. Also: Botswana, Namibia | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Umumo Mining Services | Contractor formed in 2015 that runs load and haul, mobile crushing and screening, and mine rehabilitation at surface and underground mines. Source. | load and haul, crushing and screening, mining services | Not stated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| ViaHire | Hires out and operates mobile crushers, screens and earthmoving plant, and does load and haul and rehabilitation on mines including iron ore and manganese. Source. | load and haul, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, plant hire | Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape. Also: Botswana | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Zizwe Opencast Mining | Contract miner on chrome, platinum and coal operations, covering opencast and underground mining, drilling and blasting, crushing, materials handling and beneficiation. Source. | drill and blast, opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, underground development, mining services | Not stated | 25 Sept 2026 |
Contractors by province
Companies that name a province or have an office there. Companies that give no province are not in this list.
| Province | Companies |
|---|---|
| Eastern Cape | SupaCrush, ViaHire |
| Gauteng | Almin Projects, Amandla Awethu Projects, B&E International, Eco-Match, Enaex Africa, Mining Plant Hire, ProBlast Blasting Solutions, Rosond, Scribante Group, Seneca Crushing & Screening, Stefanutti Stocks, ViaHire |
| KwaZulu-Natal | Brauteseth Blasting, Stefanutti Stocks, ViaHire |
| Limpopo | Almin Projects, B&E International, Enaex Africa, Redpath Africa, ViaHire |
| Mpumalanga | Africoal SA, Almin Projects, Amandla Awethu Projects, B&E International, Enaex Africa, JCI Mining, MPL Mining, Ritluka Resources, ViaHire |
| North West | Almin Projects, Cementation Africa, Enaex Africa, MPL Mining, MySol Holdings and Logistics, SMS Mining, SPH Kundalila |
| Northern Cape | Cementation Africa, Enaex Africa, Minopex, Moolmans, SPH Kundalila, ViaHire |
| Western Cape | SPH Kundalila, Stefanutti Stocks |
Common questions
How does a company get into the directory?
A company is listed when it offers contract mining or mining services to mine owners in South Africa. Its own website, or a dated public source from 2025 or 2026, must show that it is operating. Nobody pays to be listed and we do not rank entries.
Why is a company I know not listed?
Either we have not reached it yet or we could not confirm from a public source that it is operating now. Companies that own and mine their own deposits only, equipment dealers, software sellers and consultancies are left out.
How do I correct or remove a listing?
Email the Pay Dirt desk from an address at the company concerned, with the company name, the change and a public source such as your own website. The contact page has the details. We check the change and update the entry and its check date.
Sources
- Each company’s own website, linked in the table, with the page we read linked as “Source” in each row. Read 25 Sep 2026.
- Aveng interim results booklet, February 2026 (Aveng). Read 25 Sep 2026.
- Raubex Group 2026 year-end results booklet (Raubex Group). Read 25 Sep 2026.
- Contract mining services (Afrimat). Read 25 Sep 2026.
- Redpath Africa expanding its underground mining proposition (International Mining, 18 Sep 2026). Read 25 Sep 2026.
- Services (Master Drilling Group). Read 25 Sep 2026.
- Enaex Africa scope (Enaex). Read 25 Sep 2026.
