https://www.miningweekly.com
Richards Bay|Sibanye-Stillwater|Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone|Ilmenite|Platinum|Donovan Chimhandamba|Kleantha Pillay|Richard Cox|Nyanza Light Metals – Product|Mining Weekly
||||||
richards-bay|sibanye-stillwater-company|richards-bay-industrial-development-zone|ilmenite|platinum|donovan-chimhandamba|kleantha-pillay|richard-cox|nyanza-light-metals-product|mining-weekly

Resources Watch

Resources Watch

1st July 2026

     

Font size: - +

Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.

 

This week:

$870m ilmenite beneficiation project enters construction phase at Richards Bay IDZ

New longer-term platinum metal applications needed, Sibanye-Stillwater headlines

And, Sibanye-Stillwater’s mass of metal ‘probably one of planet’s biggest’

 

The construction of the first phase of the Nyanza Light Metals plant to advance ilmenite up the value curve in the form of titanium dioxide pigment has begun at the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone.

Nyanza CEO Donovan Chimhandamba...

 

To replace declining demand for the autocatalysis that curbs emissions from vehicle exhausts, new longer-term platinum group metal applications are required.

 

Sibanye-Stillwater Sales & Marketing EVP Kleantha Pillay...

 

Sibanye-Stillwater is executing a deliberate strategy to extract more value from every single square metre of its resource base.

 

Sibanye-Stillwater COO Richard Cox...

 

For mining news as it breaks, stay logged onto Mining Weekly.com and register for our free daily newsletter.

 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

Article Enquiry

Email Article

Save Article

Feedback

To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here

Showroom

Stewarts & Lloyds
Stewarts & Lloyds

Stewarts & Lloyds is a leading steel, tube, and engineering product supplier in South Africa.

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Sulzer Pumps (SA) (Pty) Ltd
Sulzer Pumps (SA) (Pty) Ltd

Sulzer South Africa, established in 1922, partners with critical industries like power, oil & gas, water, mining, and chemicals to boost...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

On-The-Air (09/10/2026)
On-The-Air (09/10/2026)
9th October 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

➕

➕

➕

➕

➕

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

➕

➕

➕

➕

➕

➕

➕

➕

➕

➕

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION

➕

➕







sq:0.044 0.067s - 125pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now