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Mobile operators globally are making tangible gains towards net zero, with nearly a quarter, at 24%, of the industry’s electricity globally now being bought from renewable sources, GSMA’s latest...
First Rand’s Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has acquired a 25% stake in Remgro’s Ubiquity Energy platform, the holding company of Energy Exchange, which is an electricity trader licensed by the National...
The City of Cape Town has launched its R120-billion infrastructure portfolio for economic growth, of which around 38%, or R45-billion, will be allocated to addressing water and sanitation...
Purification works and booster stations are expected to be exempt from loadshedding; however, the recent power outages across bulk water utility Rand Water’s entire value chain have created...
Minerals processing equipment manufacturer Multotec embarked on two major trommel projects in 2022 for the heavy minerals mining industry. The first project, completed in July, involved the...
Amid the current energy crisis, declared to be a state of disaster during last month’s State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, battery energy storage systems (BESS) could...
Amid the current energy crisis, declared to be a state of disaster during last month’s State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, battery energy storage systems (BESS) could...
South Africa's energy and logistics threats should be turned into opportunities, says African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) CEO Mike Schmidt. Speaking to Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview following ARM’s...
The ongoing energy crisis in South Africa has routinely caused steel production to be halted and, owing to generators being costly, steel suppliers and fabricators have had to increase sales prices...
The explosive eNCA interview with André de Ruyter truly rammed home what most people, besides those with their noses in the looting trough, already knew: relying primarily on Eskom Generation to...
IPR, previously known as Integrated Pump Rental, is recognised across the SADC region as the pump, heavy duty slurry handling and dredging specialist, operating across all sectors including...
High levels of unemployment, raw material shortages and energy constraints have negatively affected the South African rubber manufacturing industry as the economy begins to recover from the effects...
As South Africa’s persistent loadshedding shows no signs of abating, the country’s telecommunications companies are having to ramp up mitigation measures in an effort to keep consumers connected....
Diversified miner and developer Premier African Minerals CEO George Roach reports that the company's Zimbabwe-based Zulu lithium and tantalum project is on track to produce spodumene concentrate...
Aim-listed Sylvania Platinum has generated higher earnings and profit for the six months ended December 31, prompting it to declare an interim dividend of 3p a share. Group earnings before...
Aim-listed Goldplat has reported a 41% year-on-year drop in operating profit from its two gold recovery operations in South Africa and Ghana, to about £1.38-million for the quarter ended December...
JSE-listed aggregates and mining company Afrimat's executives on February 17 reported to shareholders that the company was performing well in difficult times and that there were several projects...
By: Kelsey Pailman and Andréa Cabanac The critical role of mineral production in the achievement of a sustainable energy future cannot be understated. According to a recent World Bank Group report...
Stage 4 to 6 loadshedding has become more commonplace over the past few months, with many analysts expecting it to continue and possibly worsen before South Africa’s energy crisis has abated....
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he would be appointing a new Minister of Electricity in The Presidency to coordinate the response to the electricity crisis, which has now officially been...
South Africa experiences regular power outages that are often blamed on power generators being shut down owing to boiler tube leaks, but a well-established and proven solution is available from...
The impact of loadshedding on the agriculture sector is evident at all levels of operation, including logistics and cold chain management, which necessitates urgent responses from farmers and...
Robex Resources has appointed Australia-based fund management firm Taurus Mining Finance Fund No 2 as exclusive arranger for a funding package of up to $115-million for the development of the project.
Struggling power utility Eskom has confirmed that it has secured funding to pay for its diesel requirements for the remainder of the current financial year, which ends on March 31, but has not yet...
With the private sector’s combined 9 GW of solar, wind, gas and battery storage projects in the pipeline, persistent loadshedding and an electricity tariff increase of 18.65% from April 1, it is...
Initiatives being coordinated under the aegis of the National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM) will seek to add about 8 800 MW of capacity to the South Africa’s electricity supply during the course...
Mining major BHP is reportedly mulling the closure of its Mt Arthur coal mine, in New South Wales, ahead of its 2030 target. The ABC on Monday reported that BHP had told some 2 000 staff at the...
South Africa’s power crisis is effectively death by a thousand cuts. It’s the consequence of decades of poor policy choices and inappropriate regulation, pitiable governance at Eskom, which enabled...
International renewables group Enel Green Power has been selected by Air Liquide and Sasol to build 220 MW of wind capacity to supply Sasol’s Secunda complex, in Mpumalanga, where Sasol produces...
A silver mine East of Agadir, in the Taroudant province of Morocco.
Nature-based solutions assist in creating a more circular economy and by-products from the treatment can create further value for the water treatment industry, says Rhodes University’s Institute...
Consulting engineering solutions provider Bosch Projects has been appointed by the Blue Crane Route municipality (BCRM) as consultants for the refurbishment of the water treatment works (WTW) for...
Trade union Solidarity has served legal papers on the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to remove all bottlenecks standing in the way of private energy suppliers. Solidarity...
Coal miner Whitehaven Coal said on Thursday it was reviewing the implications of the New South Wales government’s decision to expand its domestic thermal coal reservation policy to include the...
Canada-headquartered First Quantum has increased its capital expenditure (capex) guidance for 2023 and 2024 to reflect inflationary cost increases, as well as additional increases arising from...
Stage 4 loadshedding will be implemented at 05:00 to 16:00 from Tuesday, followed by Stage 5 load shedding at 16:00 to 05:00 from Wednesday, Eskom warned. Over the course of this week, 14...
State-owned energy utility Eskom says it appreciates the tough tariff decision made by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years, for which...
State-owned power utility Eskom will implement Stage 6 loadshedding from 16:00 on January 11, until further notice. The entity cites severe capacity constraints as the reason behind the more...
US oil and gas major Chevron will need at least two more days to resume production from its Wheatstone gas plant, near Onslow in Western Australia, but the state government has assured that supply...
Turbulent global energy markets are threatening to depress bids in a key auction on the largest US grid, potentially squeezing aging coal plants. Shortages of natural gas and coal have pushed up...
A steady roll-out of renewable energy projects has seen Hyundai Automotive South Africa (HASA) run its head office and several of its Gauteng dealerships on solar power when loadshedding kicks in....
Far East Capital analyst Warwick Grigor recently travelled to South Africa, where he inspected ASX-listed West Wits Mining’s Witwatersrand Basin gold project. As outlined in the latest Far East...
Organised business has called on government to fund adequate and reliable diesel supply for the country’s national peaking generators, which it describes as critical to ensuring that Eskom can best...
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