Murray & Roberts Cementation is celebrating 21 years of growth and transformation since the merger of Murray & Roberts RUC and The Cementation Company (Africa) in July 2004. Over the past 21 years, the company has evolved into a global leader in contract mining services expanding beyond traditional contracting to a high-tech value-driven provider of mining solutions.
New Business Director, Graham Chamberlain, reflects on the company’s bold direction highlighting its commitment to adopting cutting-edge technologies, enhancing safety and continuing to expand its footprint across Africa. Today, Murray & Roberts Cementation operates in Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Ghana, ensuring a robust presence to serve the continent’s growing mining sector.
“As a leader in the contract mining sector and in particular in shaft sinking operations, we have a strong safety record,” Chamberlain says. As an indication of its safety commitment, in December 2024 Murray & Roberts Cementation achieved 8 million fatality free shafts – spanning a dozen years.
Further since 2001, Chamberlain says that the company has sunk 21 shafts—15 of them since 2012—totalling an impressive 15,000 metres of vertical sinking. Additionally, it has completed 72,000 metres of raise drilling, averaging 300 metres per month.