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Darren Parker

Darren Parker

Darren Parker is a Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

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Anglo American's new head office in Oxford Road

Bambili close to finishing feasibility study on hydrogen fuel cell power system for Anglo’s head office

1st March 2024

Diversified mining major Anglo American has selected hydrogen energy solutions company Bambili Energy to deploy a 2 MW hydrogen fuel cell power system lighthouse project to provide electricity at... 


H2 gas sign

South Africa looks to Japanese collaboration on green hydrogen development

1st March 2024

The Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) this week hosted key South African private and public sector delegates and a high-profile Japanese business delegation at a green hydrogen seminar, in... 


DBSA’s new Project Vumela financing instrument to help municipalities fund bulk infrastructure investment

1st March 2024

Development finance institution the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has introduced a new financing instrument called Project Vumela, which blends municipal revenue sources with financing... 


Infrastructure finance, implementation support agency for PPPs in the offing

1st March 2024

The National Treasury has revealed the planned establishment of an infrastructure finance and implementation support agency during the 2024/25 fiscal year to coordinate the planning and preparation... 


Drill core recovered from the Segele mine, in Ethiopia

Akobo finalises debt restructuring agreement

28th February 2024

Scandinavia-based gold exploration and mining company Akobo Minerals, which has operations in Ethiopia, has finalised an agreement regarding completion of its debt restructuring. This follows the... 


Tertiary signs JV agreement to form new Zambian copper exploration company

26th February 2024

Aim-listed Tertiary Minerals has signed a new joint venture (JV) agreement with local partner Mwashia Resources that will consolidate ownership of the Jacks, Mukai and Mushima North copper... 


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Disappointing results from world’s top miners highlight market challenges, Tickmill says

26th February 2024

The underwhelming results from two of the largest global multinational mining and commodity companies Anglo American and Glencore, which both released their 2023 financial and preliminary results... 


Base Resources' Kwale operation in Kenya

Base says Kwale on track to achieve production guidance

26th February 2024

African mineral sands producer and developer Base Resources has reported that its Kwale operation, in Kenya, continued to perform to plan and remains on track to achieve production guidance for the... 


Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman

Sibanye reports 55.1% increase in lithium carbonate equivalent resources

26th February 2024

JSE- and NYSE-listed Sibanye-Stillwater has reported a 55.1% increase in attributable lithium mineral resources as at the end of last year, along with a general expansion and diversification of its... 


Transnet train transporting iron ore

Transnet problems force Kumba to moderate output

23rd February 2024

Anglo American subsidiary Kumba Iron Ore CE Mpumi Zikalala has reiterated that State-owned Transnet’s rail performance challenges have placed so much pressure on Kumba’s value chain that the... 


Trafigura group executive chairperson and CEO Jeremy Weir, Ivanhoe Mines founder and executive co-chair Robert Friedland, and Lobito Atlantic Railway CEO Francisco Franca

Kamoa-Kakula, Trafigura become first Lobito railway corridor customers

23rd February 2024

The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and commodities trader Trafigura have both signed a term sheet outlining the key terms for a reserve capacity agreement... 


Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad

Anglo achieves its best ever safety record, but reiterates commitment to zero harm

22nd February 2024

Mining major Anglo American has achieved its lowest ever total recordable injury frequency rate of 1.78 in 2023, down from 2.19 in 2022, along with the company’s lowest ever monthly rate of 0.91 in... 


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Anglo to focus on cost cutting following disappointing 2023 performance

22nd February 2024

Mining major Anglo American chairperson Stuart Chambers and CEO Duncan Wanblad have both expressed disappointment with the company’s financial results for 2023, which were released on February 22.... 


Minas-Rio

Integration of Vale’s Serpentina resource has potential to expand Anglo’s Minas-Rio output

22nd February 2024

Diversified miner Anglo American has agreed to acquire, from Brazilian iron-ore miner Vale, the high-quality Serra da Serpentina iron-ore resource and integrate it into its contiguous Minas-Rio... 


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Mining tax revenue down by 50.4% y/y

21st February 2024

With various commodity prices taking a nosedive over the past year, windfall tax gains from high commodity prices over the preceding two years have come to an end, resulting in a sharp fall in... 


Illegal miners

Criminal Asset Recovery Fund, not fiscus, to fund SANDF’s war on illegal mining

21st February 2024

The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans has claimed that the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in support of the South African Police Service to... 


Amplats CEO Craig Miller

Amplats restructuring may impact 3 700 jobs after 71% y/y earnings decline

19th February 2024

Despite the “extensive measures” already taken by platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) to ensure its survival, the company has announced a proposed restructuring... 


Petra Diamonds' Cullinan mine

Petra sold $47.8m worth of diamonds in fourth tender

16th February 2024

Diamond producer Petra Diamonds sold 428 900 ct for $47.8-million during its fourth tender cycle of the 2024 financial year. This represents a 4% increase in like-for-like prices compared with the... 


Gold One Modder East legal head Ziyaad Hassam

Can SA mining prevent more hostage dramas in 2024?

16th February 2024

Since October of last year, several unlawful underground protests have raised serious concerns about the potential emergence of a new trend in which frustrated underground mineworkers turn to... 


Seifsa CEO Lucio Trentini

Metals and engineering employers, trade unions sign landmark relationship agreement

16th February 2024

Employers and trade unions who attended a Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC) meeting on January 31 have signed a landmark process or relationship agreement, paving the way... 


Gold One Modder East legal head Ziyaad Hassam

Can SA mining prevent more hostage dramas in 2024?

16th February 2024

Since October of last year, several unlawful underground protests have raised serious concerns about the potential emergence of a new trend in which frustrated underground mineworkers turn to... 


DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius

DRDGOLD reports near R1bn operating profit despite 7% production dropoff

14th February 2024

Despite its gold production for the six months to December 31, 2023, having decreased by 7%, owing to a 13% drop in throughput, DRDGOLD managed to return an operating profit of R909.3-million, with... 


DRDGOLD surface mining

DRDGOLD says dust control measures seem to be working

14th February 2024

JSE-listed DRDGOLD has reported that only 0.6% out of 632 dust monitoring sites registered an exceedance in terms of the stipulated regulatory thresholds across its operations. “Because our... 


Anglo American's new head office in Oxford Road

Bambili close to finishing feasibility study on hydrogen fuel cell power system for Anglo’s head office

13th February 2024

Diversified mining major Anglo American has selected hydrogen energy solutions company Bambili Energy to deploy a 2 MW hydrogen fuel cell power system lighthouse project to provide electricity at... 


H2 gas sign

South Africa looks to Japanese collaboration on green hydrogen development

13th February 2024

The Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) this week hosted key South African private and public sector delegates and a high-profile Japanese business delegation at a green hydrogen seminar, in... 


Premier publishes new mineral resource estimate for Zulu project

9th February 2024

Aim-listed Premier African Minerals has published a new South African Mineral Resource Committee- (Samrec-) compliant mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its wholly-owned Zulu lithium and tantalum... 


Akobo secures NKr6-million bridge loan from shareholders

9th February 2024

Scandinavian gold exploration and mining company Akobo Minerals has secured a NKr6-million bridge loan. As part of the ongoing efforts to secure new funding, the company said on February 9 that it... 


Barrick gold bars

Barrick grows its reserve base for third successive year

9th February 2024

NYSE- and TSX-listed Barrick Gold has reported growth in attributable proven and probable gold mineral reserves by five-million ounces before 2023 depletion, while also striving to maintain the... 


Rows of round steel bars

Downstream companies implore ArcelorMittal South Africa, govt to avoid long steel plant closures

9th February 2024

The South African downstream steel industry has urgently appealed to both steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) and the government to find immediate solutions that will allow the... 


African Pioneer extends Ongombo prospecting licence, upgrades mineral resource estimate

8th February 2024

London-listed exploration and resource development company African Pioneer has been notified that the exclusive prospecting licence (EPL) 5772, 40 km northeast of Windhoek, Namibia, has been... 


diamond sorting

De Beers’ fourth-quarter rough diamond production down 3% y/y

8th February 2024

Diamond producer De Beers reported on February 8 that its 2023 fourth-quarter rough diamond production had decreased by 3% year-on-year to 7.9-million carats, primarily owing to the planned... 


Transnet train transporting iron ore

Transnet problems force Kumba to moderate output

8th February 2024

Anglo American subsidiary Kumba Iron Ore CE Mpumi Zikalala has reiterated that State-owned Transnet’s rail performance challenges have placed so much pressure on Kumba’s value chain that the... 


Madison Metals executive chairperson and CEO Duane Parnham

Madison reports high-grade uranium discovery at Khan

8th February 2024

Upstream uranium mining and exploration company Madison Metals has discovered a high-grade uranium mineralisation at Anomaly 5, located within the company’s Khan project at Madison West in... 


Gold-plate South Africa

Goldplat’s Ghana business excels while South African op stumbles

7th February 2024

Aim-listed mining services group Goldplat has reported an “exceptional” second quarter at its gold recovery business in Ghana, achieving an operating profit of £1.82-million, up from about... 


Steenkampskraal mine CEO Graham Soden and BMS owner and CEO Enock Mathebula

Bora buys into Steenkampskraal as strategic partner

7th February 2024

Mining services company Bora Mining Services (BMS) has acquired a share in the Steenkampskraal monazite mine, in the Western Cape, for an undisclosed sum as a strategic partner.  The partnership... 


copper element abstract

Mingomba discovery highlights value of Konkola West by proximity

7th February 2024

Aim-listed Tertiary Minerals has highlighted the promise of its Konkola West copper project, in Zambia, thanks to its close proximity to the Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos-backed KoBold Metals’ Mingomba... 


Trafigura group executive chairperson and CEO Jeremy Weir, Ivanhoe Mines founder and executive co-chair Robert Friedland, and Lobito Atlantic Railway CEO Francisco Franca

Kamoa-Kakula, Trafigura become first Lobito railway corridor customers

7th February 2024

The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and commodities trader Trafigura have both signed a term sheet outlining the key terms for a reserve capacity agreement... 


New TLT-Turbo CEO Gerd Jegodzinski

TLT-Turbo appoints new CEO

6th February 2024

Mining, tunnel and industrial fan manufacturer and mechanical vapour recompression (MVR) technology company TLT-Turbo has appointed Gerd Jegodzinski as its new CEO, effective January 4, succeeding... 


Gold pouring

DRDGold to report higher interim earnings, despite cost increases

6th February 2024

JSE-listed gold mining company DRDGold, which is in the process of finalising its results for the six months ended December 31, expects to report a 5% to 15% year-on-year increase in earnings per... 


Red Rock hopes to end $10m arbitration in the DRC this week

6th February 2024

Aim-listed Red Rock Resources has reported that closure is imminent with regard to its arbitration over a $10-million claim being pursued in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over its interest... 


high voltage junction box and solar panels at mine

Energy shortage presents mining industry with opportunities, pivotal choices

6th February 2024

The energy challenges facing mining companies in South Africa have given rise to significant opportunities, strategic management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group partner Rudi van Blerk says.... 


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