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South Africans urged to turn exploration into Big Hairy Audacious Goal 
By: Martin Creamer 24th September 2022 South Africans have been urged to rally around exploration as this country's Big Hairy Audacious Goal – a BHAG – so that what is described as "our lowest hanging economic fruit" can be turned to positive account. Council for Geoscience CEO Mosa Mabuza, who was speaking in support of the junior... →
Goldplat appoints Kisbey-Green as chair, Gerard Kemp joins board
By: Creamer Media Reporter 26th September 2022 Gold recovery company Goldplat, which is listed on London’s Aim, on Monday announced the appointment of Gerard Kisbey-Green – a nonexecutive director and former CEO – as nonexecutive chairperson of the company. He is succeeding Matthew Robinson, who in May announced his intention to resign as a... →
Firefinch puts breaks on A$90m placement
By: Darren Parker 26th September 2022 The recapitalisation plan that Australia-based Firefinch unveiled last week to put its Morila gold mine, in Mali, back on track has hit a speed bump. The ASX-listed company on Monday cancelled its proposed placement, citing recent downward movements in the US dollar gold price and the... →
Syrah reports 'illegal' industrial action at Mozambique graphite mine
By: Mariaan Webb 26th September 2022 ASX-listed Syrah Resources’ share price fell 18% on Monday, as the company exited its trading halt and announced that operations at its Balama graphite mine, in Mozambique, had been interrupted by “illegal industrial action”. The company halted operations at Balama last week Tuesday, owing to... →
Trevali to close Burkina Faso Perkoa zinc mine after deadly flood
By: Reuters 25th September 2022 Canadian mining firm Trevali will close its Perkoa zinc mine in Burkina Faso, a company official told Reuters on Friday, following a flood at the mine in April that killed eight workers. The miners drowned in the underground passages of the mine in Sanguie province after unexpected torrential... →
Anglo to begin copper shipments from Quellaveco, tweaks guidance
By: Mariaan Webb 26th September 2022 Diversified major Anglo American on Monday announced the start of commercial operations at its 300 000 t/y copper-equivalent Quellaveco project, in Peru, following the successful testing of operations and final regulatory clearance. The new mine would lift Anglo’s total global output by 10% in... →
RBPlats extends Manenzhe’s interim appointment
By: Creamer Media Reporter 26th September 2022 Platinum group metals miner miner Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) has extended Rotshidzwa Manenzhe’s appointment as interim CFO until the end of December, the JSE-listed company reported on Monday. This comes as the long-stop date for the fulfilment of conditions relating to Impala Platinum’s... →
Atlantic Lithium starts trading on ASX
By: Marleny Arnoldi 26th September 2022 Ghana-focused lithium developer Atlantic Lithium has started trading on the ASX. The company’s secondary listing for 22.8-million shares, at a price of A$0.58 apiece, was fully subscribed to investors in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singagore, on September 26. →
Blencowe starts DFS work on Orom-Cross project
By: Marleny Arnoldi Updated 6 hours ago London-listed Blencowe Resources has started with a definitive feasibility study (DFS) on the Orom-Cross graphite project, in Uganda. The company is in a process of selecting an experienced independent engineering firm to manage and sign off on the DFS. →
Grim demand outlook pushes copper prices to 2-month low
By: Reuters 26th September 2022 Copper prices dropped to two-month lows on Monday as fears of a global growth slowdown, weaker demand, a higher dollar and climbing stocks in London Metal Exchange (LME) registered warehouses sparked a sell-off. Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the LME was down 0.8% at $7 375 a tonne at 09:45 GMT. →
Invictus Energy starts drilling first exploration well in Zimbabwe
By: Reuters 26th September 2022 Australian-listed Invictus Energy has started drilling one of two exploration wells for oil and gas in the northern part of Zimbabwe, the company said on Monday. The 3.5-km deep well, situated in the Muzarabani-Mbire area, is part of the Cabora Bassa project in Zimbabwe, which is 80% owned and... →
Free State govt to build houses for Jagersfontein residents affected by dam burst
By: News24Wire 26th September 2022 The Free State government has announced it will be building about 160 houses for the Jagersfontein families who were displaced following a dam burst on September 11. Premier Sisi Ntombela said the province would be assisting the affected families with 160 new homes. Construction will start on... →
New fund-raising product appropriate for junior miners, says JSE
By: Martin Creamer 23rd September 2022 The JSE has a new product that is appropriate for fund-raising by junior mining companies, JSE origination and deals head Sam Mokorosi said on Friday. Mokorosi, who was speaking at Minerals Council South Africa’s Junior and Emerging Miners Desk webinar, highlighted the new product against the... →
NorZinc ticks water licence approval box
By: Creamer Media Reporter Updated 1 hour 12 minutes ago TSX-listed mine developer NorZinc has received a water licence from the Northwest Territories government for its Prairie Creek project. Combined with the receipt of the land use permit, announced in mid-August, NorZinc has now completed the permitting process for mining operations at Prairie Creek. →
NioCorp to merge with Nasdaq-listed blank check firm
By: Reuters Updated 6 hours ago Rare earth miner NioCorp Developments said on Monday it will merge with blank-check firm GX Acquisition Corp II, giving it access to up to $285-million for the development of its Elk Creek project in southeastern Nebraska. The Elk Creek project is targeting the production of niobium, scandium... →
Transparency International urges EU sanctions on Russian diamonds, miner Alrosa
By: Reuters Updated 6 hours ago The European Union should bar Russian diamond imports and blacklist diamond miner Alrosa and its head Sergei Ivanov, Transparency International told Reuters on Monday, as the 27-nation bloc prepares new sanctions over Russia's war in Ukraine. Galvanised by Russian President Vladimir Putin... →
Thunderbird project secures LNG supply
By: Darren Parker Updated 7 hours ago ASX-listed Sheffield Resources’ 50%-owned Kimberley Mineral Sands (KMS) has secured liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the Thunderbird mineral sands project, in northern Western Australia. KMS executed a binding five-year agreement – with the ability for the parties to extend for a further five... →
Volkswagen teams up with Umicore on battery materials
By: Reuters 26th September 2022 Volkswagen announced on Monday a $2.9-billion battery parts joint venture with Belgian materials firm Umicore, becoming the latest European automaker to bring battery supplies closer to home in the shift towards electric vehicles. While raw materials - among them lithium, cobalt, nickel and... →
Al Gore calls out 'greenwashing' risks as funds quit green club
By: Bloomberg 26th September 2022 Al Gore, the former US vice president turned climate activist, said investors are growing increasingly impatient with evidence of potential “greenwashing” amid signs that net-zero pledges made by some members of the financial industry weren’t credible. Gore, who spoke in an interview just before... →
Ramaphosa admits there is ‘no quick fix’ to a power crisis that has ‘long history’
By: Terence Creamer 26th September 2022 Amid intense load-shedding, which has been under way continuously since early September and has at times been implemented at Stage 6, President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that there is “no quick fix” to the problem, which he says has “a long history”. Writing in his weekly newsletter a week after... →
Energy and chemicals executive appointed Vulcan deputy CEO
By: Creamer Media Reporter 26th September 2022 ASX-listed Vulcan Energy has appointed Cris Moreno, an energy and chemicals industry executive based in Europe, as its deputy CEO with effect from November 1. Moreno has more than 20 years’ experience in delivering major capital projects, including in the lithium chemicals, cathode and liquefied... →
71-ct yellow diamond unearthed at Canada’s Ekati
By: Creamer Media Reporter 26th September 2022 Arctic Canadian, the company that owns and operates the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, has announced the recovery of an exceptional gemstone – an octahedron diamond, weighing 71.26 ct. The stone was recovered on August 25, from the Ekati mine’s Misery Pipe. →
Saudi Arabia faces challenges to tap its vast copper reserves
By: Bloomberg 26th September 2022 Saudi Arabia says it has the potential to unlock enough copper to ease a looming shortage as the world makes an epic shift to clean energy, but the kingdom faces challenges that established mining countries already have solved. Key among those challenges as the world’s largest oil producer seeks... →
Brazil approves Araguaia as strategic project – Horizonte
By: Mariaan Webb 26th September 2022 The Brazilian government has approved the Araguaia nickel project as a strategic minerals project, dual-listed Horizonte Minerals reported on Monday. The approval would ensure that the various government agencies engaged in the construction and operation of the mine would treat Araguaia as a... →
Greenland Minerals dealt setback in legal fight for rare earth project licence
By: Reuters 26th September 2022 Australia's Greenland Minerals said on Monday an arbitration tribunal had declined its request for interim orders against the Greenland government's draft decision to reject the miner a licence for the Kvanefjeld rare-earths project. The company had, in July, lodged an objection against the... →
Lithium One buys property adjoining Patriot’s Corvette
By: Mariaan Webb 26th September 2022 TSX-V-listed Lithium One Metals is expanding its portfolio near the Patriot’s Corvette discovery, announcing on Friday that it has reached an arms-length agreement with Glenn Griesbach to acquire the Lac Astrid lithium project, in north-western Quebec. The Lac Astrid project is composed of 70... →
Australian mining firm IPOs lag on board gender balance
By: Bloomberg 26th September 2022 New Australian stock exchange listings are lagging the broader market in terms of board gender diversity, with just 12.2% of directorships at companies that went public in recent years held by women. The issue was particularly acute for the materials industry. The sector, which accounted for... →
Skeena closes C$34.5m bought deal to buy down Barrick NSR royalty
By: Mariaan Webb 26th September 2022 TSX- and NYSE- listed Skeena Resources has closed the previously announced bought-offering of 5 702 479 shares of the company at C$6.05 each, raising C$34.5-million. The company will use the proceeds to exercise its right to buy down a 0.5% net smelter return royalty, currently held by Barrick... →
Canada, South Korea seek deeper cooperation on critical minerals
By: Reuters 26th September 2022 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday agreed to deepen cooperation on critical minerals used in electric vehicles (EVs) batteries as both countries seek to cut emissions to fight climate change. Yoon visited London for the funeral of Queen... →
Pensana announces 767 000 t TREO reserve at Longonjo
By: Marleny Arnoldi 23rd September 2022 London-listed Pensana has published a mineral reserve estimate (MRE) for the Longonjo project, in Angola, as part its feasibility study, finding a total rare earth oxides (TREO) reserve of 767 000 t, at a 2.55% grade. Particularly, Longonjo contains 166 000 t of proven and probable neodymium... →
Eskom, partners to establish renewables training facility at Komati
By: Darren Parker 23rd September 2022 State-owned Eskom, the South African Renewable Energy Technology Centre (Saretec) – based at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) – and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) have signed a partnership agreement for the development of a new training facility to be... →
The Komati power station is being decommissioned and repurposed
Glencore buys Newmont’s stake in Argentina copper/gold project
By: Mariaan Webb 23rd September 2022 Diversified mining company and commodity trader Glencore on Friday announced that it would buy gold miner Newmont’s 18.75% shareholding in the MARA project, in Argentina. Following completion of the transaction, Glencore would own 43.75% of MARA, which is a brownfield project located in the... →
Jagersfontein disaster: 2 people still missing, rivers polluted as residents warned to avoid sludge
By: News24Wire 23rd September 2022 Two people are still unaccounted for, nearly two weeks after a mining dam wall collapsed in the small Free State town of Jagersfontein. They are 50-year-old Mantele Mokhali, and 70-year-old Shadrack Williams. →
Green hydrogen at sea on world-first offshore demonstrator platform
By: Martin Creamer 23rd September 2022 The world’s first offshore green hydrogen production demonstrator platform has been positioned offshore of France. “This is the first time that renewable hydrogen will be produced at sea,” French company Lhyfe stated in a release to Engineering News & Mining Weekly. (Also watch attached Creamer... →
Anglo American commits $15m to the Global Fund to tackle diseases
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 23rd September 2022 Global miner Anglo American, together with the Anglo American Foundation, have pledged $15-million to support the Global Fund, aimed at ending HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, and building resilient systems for health and pandemic preparedness. The pledge was delivered in New York, during... →
Aton enters bridge loan to advance Rodruin prospect
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 23rd September 2022 TSX-V-listed Aton Resources has entered into an additional bridge loan with OU Moonrider, a significant shareholder of the company, for C$2-million. The proceeds of the loan will be used by Aton for ongoing working capital expenses and continuing its drilling programme at the Rodruin exploration... →
Elisabeth Brinton steps down as Anglo director
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 23rd September 2022 Elisabeth Brinton has decided to step down as director of Anglo American for personal reasons, with immediate effect. “We thank Elisabeth for her contribution to our board discussions and wish her well for the future,” comments chairperson Stuart Chambers. →
Osino closes acquisition of minority interests in Namibia project
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 23rd September 2022 Canada-based Osino Resources has completed the acquisitions of two remaining minority interests in the mineral properties comprising the Twin Hills gold project, in Namibia. Osino completed the acquisition of the remaining 10% of the shares in the capital of Osino Namibia Minerals Exploration... →
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