IT IS just amazing to see the innovation that the mining industry is capable of scaling up, President Cyril Ramaphosa told the Investing in African Mining Indaba in his enthusiastic address on Tuesday.
“Last week, I attended the launch by Anglo American of the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck.
“This truck will be powered by an entire ecosystem of hydrogen production around the mine itself, and I got so excited and so taken away that Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi remarked on seeing the photograph of me in this massive truck that I looked like a young boy excited over a toy.
“I said to President Masisi, when I get fired from my job, I’m going to apply to go and work on this type of truck,” Ramaphosa quipped as he digressed from his keynote address which drew considerable applause.
“Yes, President Masisi, I still get excited over things like that,” he
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