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STRATEGIC PLATINUM:
STRATEGIC PLATINUM:
10th May 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa examines platinum exploration core samples at a function where Cyprus-based Karo Resources, chaired by Loucas Pouroulis, updated its $4.2 billion platinum... 


GREEN SHOOTS
GREEN SHOOTS
10th May 2019

Pictured above is a lettuce crop being grown at the YES Kago Green Engine hub, in Tembisa. The hub is the first of 100 planned for launch across the country under the aegis of the Youth Employment... 


REPLACEMENT COAL MINE:
REPLACEMENT COAL MINE:
3rd May 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Sasol has officially opened the R5.6-billion, 8.5-million-tonne-a-year Impumelelo Colliery in Mpumalanga, the last of its three replacement coal mines, following the opening of Shondoni and... 


FINAL COUNTDOWN
FINAL COUNTDOWN
3rd May 2019

South Africans go to the polls next week only days for the sixth national election held in the country’s democratic era. The 2019 poll comes at a time when many citizens have lost some enthusiasm... 


HYDROGEN AND PLATINUM FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE:
HYDROGEN AND PLATINUM FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE:
26th April 2019 By: Martin Creamer

The use of hydrogen and platinum to combat climate change was emphasised at this month’s Platinum Group Metals Industry Day in Johannesburg, where Anglo American Platinum CEO Chris Griffith said... 


INVESTMENT PICK-UP
INVESTMENT PICK-UP
26th April 2019

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa uses scissors to cut the ribbon at Japanese vehicle manufacturer Nissan’s factory in Rosslyn, in Tshwane, while Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, and Tshwane... 


KISSING COAL GOODBYE:
KISSING COAL GOODBYE:
19th April 2019 By: Martin Creamer

A mineworker kisses the last piece of coal from the Franz Haniel shaft at a ceremony marking the closure of the last active black coal mine in Bottrop, Germany, a country which once thrived on the... 


ROLLING AGAIN
ROLLING AGAIN
19th April 2019

Railway engineering company TMH Africa has restarted operations at a 45 000 m2 rolling-stock manufacturing facility, in Boksburg, Gauteng. The facility was acquired in 2018 from DCD Rolling Stock,... 


UKRAINIAN UNEASE:
UKRAINIAN UNEASE:
12th April 2019 By: Martin Creamer

A mineworker toils inside the Novovolynska-9 coal mine, which is the focal point of a Ukrainian police investigation into a coal deal that some anti-corruption campaigners say resulted in... 


POWERING UP
POWERING UP
12th April 2019

Swedish cleantech company Ripasso Energy has invested in a new power generation unit in South Africa that produces electricity using industrial residual gases. The plant has been constructed at... 


FLOATING POWER STATION THAT SAVES WATER:
FLOATING POWER STATION THAT SAVES WATER:
5th April 2019 By: Martin Creamer

These solar panels are floating on a tailings dam at Anglo American’s Los Bronces copper mine on the outskirts of Santiago, in Chile. The first-of-a-kind solar island reflects the South African... 


EMISSIONS RISE
EMISSIONS RISE
5th April 2019

Carbon emissions from fossil-fuel use rose to a record level in 2018 after energy demand grew at its fastest pace in a decade. The increase, which was reported by the International Energy Agency,... 


PLATINUM'S LAND AND WATER LARGESSE:
PLATINUM'S LAND AND WATER LARGESSE:
29th March 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) has switched on its newly commissioned Bokamoso waste water management plant, near the company’s Waterval Smelter. The plant will process waste water from nearby... 


NO NEW DAWN
NO NEW DAWN
29th March 2019 By: Terence Creamer

A 'sand fisher' prepares to collect sand from the Oubangui river for construction, at dawn in Bangui, Central African Republic earlier this month. A recent United Nations report pleaded for... 


IRON-ORE MINING IN UKRAINE:
IRON-ORE MINING IN UKRAINE:
22nd March 2019 By: Martin Creamer

This is ArcelorMittal’s opencast iron-ore mine in Kryvyi Rih, in Ukraine, where the company produces concentrate, lump and sinter feed. Mining is core to the growth strategy of ArcelorMittal, which... 


REACHING FOR ZERO
REACHING FOR ZERO
22nd March 2019

Volkswagen announced last week that it plans to build 22-million battery-powered vehicles over the next ten years, compared with an earlier goal of 15-million. The world’s largest automaker also... 


RUSSIAN DIAMOND:
RUSSIAN DIAMOND:
15th March 2019 By: Martin Creamer

A 24.21 ct rough diamond on a scanner at Alrosa’s selling organisation in Russia, where sorting, valuation and sale of Alrosa diamonds is carried out. The United Selling Organisation employs 500... 


NEW PRIVATE FRONTIER
NEW PRIVATE FRONTIER
15th March 2019

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on March 2 on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape... 


PRODUCT CERTIFIED:
PRODUCT CERTIFIED:
8th March 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Conveyor belts process and separate different types of aggregate at the Butler Brothers Supplies aggregate mine in Victoria, British Columbia (BC), Canada, which has been providing aggregate and... 


NOT LIONEL MESSI
NOT LIONEL MESSI
8th March 2019 By: Creamer Media Reporter

It may have been in Barcelona, but it was neither at the hallowed Camp Nou stadium, nor was it football legend Lionel Messi. Instead, a gesture-controlled robot was photographed playing football at... 


DIAMOND MINE WITH SPARKLING HISTORY:
DIAMOND MINE WITH SPARKLING HISTORY:
1st March 2019 By: Martin Creamer

A mine worker walks towards a shaft at the Cullinan diamond mine, which continues to be a source of large gem diamonds and rare blue diamonds. Cullinan earned its place in history with the... 


FINAL COUNTDOWN
FINAL COUNTDOWN
1st March 2019 By: Terence Creamer

After British citizens surprised the world and voted to leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016, the UK Parliament voted in March 2017 to approve the triggering of Article 50, the EU’s legal... 


COAL COPPER CAPAMITY:
COAL COPPER CAPAMITY:
22nd February 2019 By: Martin Creamer

The decline shaft leading into the closed Gloria coal mine near Middelburg, in Mpumalanga, where an underground methane gas explosion killed 13 people thought to have been extracting copper cable... 


END OF ERA
END OF ERA
22nd February 2019 By: Bloomberg

Airbus has announced that it will stop making the A380 airliner by 2021, by which time the remaining buyers of the double-decker passenger aircraft, including Emirates, will take delivery of their... 


TAKING FIRE TO ILLEGAL MINING:
TAKING FIRE TO ILLEGAL MINING:
15th February 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Mining machines are destroyed by fire at an illegal tin mine in the Amazon rainforest. This operation was conducted by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources to... 


FROSTY RECEPTION
FROSTY RECEPTION
15th February 2019

Eskom CFO Calib Cassim presenting at the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) public hearings in Gauteng last week. Eskom is requesting allowable revenue of R219-billion for... 


ANOTHER TAILINGS DISASTER:
ANOTHER TAILINGS DISASTER:
8th February 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Residents are seen observing the impact of the breach of an iron-ore tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão mine in Brazil, operated by Brazilian mining company Vale SA, which four years ago... 


GO FOR GROWTH
GO FOR GROWTH
8th February 2019 By: Terence Creamer

The greater sense of cohesion between government and business in South Africa was on visible display at Business Unity South Africa’s indaba in Johannesburg last week. President Cyril Ramaphosa... 


NO COAL MINE SURVIVORS
NO COAL MINE SURVIVORS
1st February 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Indian Navy personnel come out of a coal mine during a rescue operation in Ksan, in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya, India, where no headway has been made to retrieve the bodies of 15 illegal... 


CYBERSECURITY ON WHEELS
CYBERSECURITY ON WHEELS
1st February 2019

IBM describes its X-Force Command Cyber Tactical Operations Center as a first-of-a-kind training, simulation and security operation on wheels. Painted black and emblazoned with IBM’s logo, a 23 t... 


HIGHLIGHTING THE HISTORICAL:
HIGHLIGHTING THE HISTORICAL:
25th January 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Exploration and development company West Wits Mining last year highlighted historical gold workings such as this one, which were unearthed during renewed opencast activity in South Africa's... 


HOSTILE CLIMATE
HOSTILE CLIMATE
25th January 2019

When Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) –headquartered in San Francisco, California – filed for bankruptcy last week, some commentators suggested that the utility’s failure would potentially turn it... 


ZINC BOOST FOR NORTHERN CAPE:
ZINC BOOST FOR NORTHERN CAPE:
18th January 2019 By: Donna Slater

A Caterpillar 789-series rigid dump truck exits one of the three pits at the $400-million Gamsberg zinc project of diversified miner Vedanta. The London-listed India-rooted Vedanta is ready to... 


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Flameblock
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FlameBlock is a proudly South African company that engineers, manufactures and supplies fire intumescent and retardant products to the fire...

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Weir Minerals Africa and Middle East
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Weir Minerals Europe, Middle East and Africa is a global supplier of excellent minerals solutions, including pumps, valves, hydrocyclones,...

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Stewarts & Lloyds today supplies steel and tube, pipe and fittings, valves, pumps, irrigation, fencing, profiling and roofing products. The cash...

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