Minopex

Minopex is a specialist mining services company that provides outsourced operation and maintenance (O&M) of mineral processing plants, describing itself as a leading global plant operations and maintenance specialist in the sector. The company has operated around 50 different processing facilities and commissioned more than 90 worldwide, employs over 2,000 people, and runs operations across some 14 countries, working across commodities including coal, chrome, iron ore, gold, diamonds and platinum group metals, giving it one of the broadest commodity footprints of any dedicated plant operator active on the continent.

Because Minopex's core business is literally running other companies' processing plants, its ability to win and deliver on O&M contracts depends directly on a continuous supply of qualified engineers. Its bursary programme is targeted specifically at third- and fourth-year students in Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering with a minimum 70% academic average, disciplines that map directly onto the plant, instrumentation and metallurgical roles Minopex needs to staff across its African and international operations, making the bursary as much a talent pipeline as a corporate social investment.

Publicly available material on the programme does not set out a formal, contractually bonded work-back period; it focuses on funding study for high-achieving engineering students rather than detailing a compulsory return-of-service commitment after graduation.