Eskom reports maintenance progress as big users express concern

South Africa’s Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG) has raised concerns that, despite lower than expected electricity demand and power buy-backs, electricity utility Eskom is failing to fully deal with its maintenance backlog, which could...

Rent rather than nationalisation, Zim will not pay compensation, Australian mining investment

The study by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) gives mine nationalisation a firm thumbs down; Zimbabwe will shortly seize mining assets without compensation; and the study of South Africa’s Council for Geosciences into the...

Anglo’s South African export coal production rises

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Export thermal coal production from Anglo American’s South African and Colombian mines rose 5% to 8.6-million tons in the three months to December 31.

Anglo's South African export coal production rises

Export thermal coal production from Anglo American’s South African and Colombian mines rose 5% to 8.6-million tons in the three months to December 31. LSE- and JSE-listed Anglo American says that the fourth-quarter thermal coal production from...

Questions stream in ahead of Anglo American Thermal Coal’s IPP deadline

Reams of questions streamed in ahead of the questions deadline for the independent power producer (IPP) project that Anglo American Thermal Coal is facilitating at eMalahleni, Mpumalanga. “Our period for questions closed on Sunday night at...

Electrical engineering company secures large contracts

Electrical engineering company Actom High Voltage Equipment has been awarded two-year frame contracts by state-owned electricity utility Eskom for new transmission and distribution equipment.

Coal research report released by Creamer Media

Coal is of critical importance to the South African energy economy. It is the source of 93% of the country’s electricity, 70% of its primary energy and 30% of its petroleum liquid fuels.

Mine nationalisation wrong, dangerous question to ask – Shabangu

Asking whether South Africa should nationalise its mining industry was the wrong, dangerous question to ask in searching for the answer to South Africa’s “evil triplets” of poverty, inequality and unemployment, said Mineral Resources...

Company Announcement: Vanuatu Geothermal Project Update

Attached please find a press release on: In previous quarterly reports KUTh has provided updates on its geothermal project in Vanuatu. We have reported that two issues have been holding up the project with the first involving the electricity...

Launch of State mining company reopens political divisions

The first sod has been turned at the new R130-million 120-employee State-owned Vlakfontein coal mine, situated 100 km east of Johannesburg.

State mining company opens coal mine, declares oil-from-coal intent

South African President Jacob Zuma launched the new ‘competitive’ State mining company, which will produce 800 000 t/y of energy coal at its first mine and synthetic crude oil from another in 2013. President Zuma turned the first sod at the...

State mining company in coal offtake talks with Eskom

South Africa’s State mining company, which the Cabinet has freed-up as an autonomous enterprise, is negotiating a coal offtake agreement with State-owned electricity utility Eskom, and studying rare earths opportunities in neighbouring Zimbabwe...