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Resources Watch

Resources Watch

12th August 2026

     

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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:

Seriti unpacks big renewables ambition for coal heartland as first 155 MW wind project enters into operation

And, Considerable room to increase mining’s innovation intensity, survey finds

 

The first 25 turbines at Seriti Green’s Ummbila Emoyeni Wind Farm, which is rising in the coal heartland of Mpumalanga within site of the giant Secunda coal-to-liquids complex and in close proximity to three Eskom power stations, have officially entered commercial operation.

President Cyril Ramaphosa...

 

The results of a study on the modernisation of South African mining indicate that there is considerable room to increase innovation participation and intensity across the firms surveyed.

 

Senior Research Specialist at Center for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators Dr Kgabo H Ramoroka...

 

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