Robert Charles Kerman was born on December 16, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York City. His father was a pickle maker and his mother did bookkeeping for the family business. He grew up in a in a middle-class Italian-Jewish neighborhood of Bensonhurst, sharing a two-family row house with his aunt and parents.
Modular Pack Mine System (MOPMS) MOPMS is a man-portable antitank/antipersonnel (AT/AP) mine system with command detonation capability. It weighs 165 pounds and contains a mix of 17 magnetically fuzed AT mines and four AP mines. Its 4-hour self-destruct command can be recycled three times or command detonated by remote control. The Remote Control Unit can control up to 15 MOPMS dispensers from a distance of 300 to 1,000 meters. The munition is well suited as a protective obstacle for light forces but can be used for tactical purposes as well.
One of the largest operations run by mining companies in South Africa include the Mafube Coal Mine near Middelburg, Mpumalanga, operated by Anglo Coal (a division of Anglo Group). Africa Mining IQ lists this project s estimated worth at ZAR16 billion, along with project history since grassroots stages in September 2004.