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UNIMAGINABLY LARGE SUN POWER POTENTIAL:

2nd August 2019

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

     

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Mining company Anglo American, which has taken a decision to fully revert to solar power at its copper mines in Chile, describes its product portfolio as one that plays precisely to the macro global demand for “a cleaner world, an electrified world and a consumer world”. Anglo foresees platinum-group metals (PGMs) as being at the forefront of the decarbonisation that the world is demanding. “There’s a very exciting future for particularly the PGM industry,” Anglo CEO Mark Cutifani told Mining Weekly last week, and he wants Anglo to be South Africa’s long-term partner in sharing PGMs’ special catalytic magic with what has become an intensely climate-conscious world. Envisaged is the use of the sun to produce hydrogen from water, helped by platinum and iridium; the storing of that hydrogen for any length of time required; and then the forwarding of that hydrogen to a fuel cell to produce the cleanest-of-clean electricity with the help of platinum and ruthenium. Please, Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, make sure you accommodate all this in your upcoming Integrated Resource Plan and do what will be hugely beneficial for the South African people.

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