The mining division specialises in surface contract mining.
Our approach is to ensure lasting benefits while minimising our impact on the natural environment.
Our primary focus is ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. Training is an integral part of this focus.
Basil Read is actively involved with South African transformation and broad-based black economic empowerment.
Our expanding footprint has presented challenges in managing our human resources
We strive to protect and sustain the environment, and to manage our impacts effectively, when these are unavoidable.
Basil Read strives to engage with meaningful initiatives that contribute to the transformation of people and communities.
Our reports scope, assurance process and standards used
Beeshoek mine – Northern Cape province Joint venture contract at Beeshoek mine for Assmang.
Basil Read head office – Gauteng province The Basil Read Campus on Romeo Street, Boksburg.
West Coast Mall – Western Cape province Building on its reputation for delivering quality projects, Basil Read stengthened relationships with developers and contractors throughout South Africa.
Olifants River water resources development project – Limpopo province Basil Read is busy with the contract to construct phases 2C and 2H of the Olifants River water resources development project being developed by the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA).
Jwaneng opencast diamond mine – southern Botswana The group’s reputation for managing operations on behalf of some of the world’s most prestigious mining clients has made it a preferred partner on several sites.
Klipriver business park – Gauteng province This development is designed to cater for warehousing, logistics and distribution nodes and is divided into four phases.
Kusile power station – Mpumalanga province Basil Read, in a Joint Venture with Group Five, Stefanutti Stocks and WBHO, has been awarded the Kusile Power Station Main Civil Works by Eskom.
Medupi power station – Limpopo province The scope of work includes the construction and the preparation of servitude prism surface of Ash conveyors; permanent access and service roads to ash dump area; Dump earthworks, initial-platform and wearing course for stacking.
Richards Bay pier - KwaZulu-Natal province The work included the excavation for the quay wall and basin on 2,450 000m3 of sands, clays and hard material, as well as construction of a 580m long mass gravity concrete harbour wall, with an overall height of 23m and at 18m below mean sea level.
Olifants River water resources development project – Limpopo province Scope of work includes Some 40km of welded steel pipeline varying from 1 100 to 1 800mm in diameter, with a wall thickness of 5 to 13mm.
N12 Tom Jones freeway improvement project – Gauteng province The innovative construction techniques employed, coupled with months of Research and Development in co-operation with the University of Pretoria, has ensured that the project represents a new technological milestone for the division.
MetroWind van Stadens wind farm project – Eastern Cape province The MetroWind van Stadens wind farm is a strategic project of national significance that has numerous positive local benefits for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.