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Copper drives Anglo’s overall fourth-quarter production higher, but PGMs, nickel disappoint 
By: Marleny Arnoldi Updated 2 hours 57 minutes ago Diversified miner Anglo American has reported a year-on-year improvement in the production of nearly all its commodities – except for platinum group metals (PGMs) and nickel – for the fourth quarter of 2022. CE Duncan Wanblad says overall production increased by 10% year-on-year, driven by the... →
155 MW wind farm to be constructed in Mpumalanga by Seriti Green 
By: Martin Creamer Updated 3 hours ago Work is scheduled to begin soon on the construction of a wind farm in Mpumalanga, South Africa’s electricity heartland. The project, which begins with 155 MW of wind energy and expands to a capacity of 900 MW of renewables and 800 MWh of battery storage, forms part of an agreement that will see... →
Good grade uplifts Harmony’s gold output
By: Martin Creamer 1st February 2023 Despite the ongoing electricity shortages and supply chain disruptions, the total gold production of Harmony Gold has increased quarter-on-quarter, the Johannesburg- and New York-listed company, which will be presenting at next week’s Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town, stated on... →
Glencore's 2022 cobalt production up, along with oil, nickel, ferrochrome
By: Martin Creamer 1st February 2023 Mining and marketing company Glencore produced 40% more cobalt last year, along with 16% more oil, 5% more nickel and 1% more ferrochrome. Although coal production of 110-million tonnes was 6.7-million tonnes higher, on a like-for-like basis, overall group coal production fell by 7%, primarily... →
New partnership enabling South African lithium pioneer to go full throttle
By: Martin Creamer 31st January 2023 Battery metals investment and exploration company Marula Mining, which is delivering its first shipment of lithium ore from its Blesberg lithium and tantalum mine in the Northern Cape, has received a funding boost by clinching of a partnership with Q Global Commodities (QGC). As a majority... →
South Africa well on way to unlocking incredible base metals potential – Orion
By: Martin Creamer 31st January 2023 Emerging production hubs in the Northern Cape are opening the way for South Africa to be a producer of future-facing ‘green’ metals to support the global energy transformation and to mitigate against climate change. The two emerging production hubs are the Prieska Copper-Zinc Mine and the Okiep... →
Solar saving gold mine $145 000 a month, more renewables on way, says Pan African
By: Martin Creamer 30th January 2023 The 10 MW solar power plant at Evander is averaging savings of $145 000 a month for the Mpumalanga gold mine, Pan African Resources said on Monday. Construction is scheduled to begin in June on yet another solar facility, this time an 8 MW photovoltaic solar plant at Barberton Mines’ gold... →
Green hydrogen research given R35m boost
By: Martin Creamer 27th January 2023 South Africa's North-West University (NWU) is investing around R35-million in strategic funding to advance green hydrogen research over the next five years. This follows the announcement that Hydrogen South Africa Infrastructure Centre of Competence (HySA CoC) at NWU is collaborating with... →
RBCT exports, Sasol, Anglo American make headlines
27th January 2023 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the biggest decline in coal exports from the Richards Bay Coal Terminal in three decades; Sasol’s renewable energy contract; and Anglo’s emission-reducing ship. →
African mining investors see opportunity amid rising insecurity and recession fears
By: Nadine James 27th January 2023 The “world’s largest investment conference”, the Investing in African Mining Indaba, looks to entice investors to Cape Town’s International Convention Centre in hopes of righting “Africa’s myriad economies” following successive years of geopolitical shifts and economic disruptions, says... →
RBCT coal exports fall below 1993 level, being hit very badly by cable theft
By: Martin Creamer 26th January 2023 The number of tons of coal exported through Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) in 2022 fell to the lowest level since 1993. A total of 50.35 t was exported from the private-sector-owned RBCT, with the public-sector-owned rail line again being severely hit by copper cable theft currently. (Also... →
Copper-copious Zambia stepping up agricultural prowess, embarking on robust outreach
By: Martin Creamer 25th January 2023 Mining and agriculture are two key sectors of the Zambian economy that are attracting foreign direct investment, which rose 158% to $8.5-billion in 2022, creating 74 000 jobs. The latest company to announce that it will be developing a new copper mine in Zambia is one linked to Microsoft's Bill... →
Independent tailings management body launched to oversee conformance with global standard
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 25th January 2023 On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Brumadinho Tailings dam disaster, in Brazil, which resulted in the deaths of 270 people, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Church of England Pensions Board – representing the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) that... →
Sasol secures first hydrogen-linked renewable energy supply contract 
By: Martin Creamer 24th January 2023 Chemicals and energy company Sasol has signed a long-term contract for the supply of 69 MW of renewable energy to its Sasolburg site in the Free State – the first of several agreements Sasol intends finalising in the coming months as it secures the renewable energy supply required to produce... →
Sasol energy business executive VP Priscillah Mabelane.
Transnet could be major disaster to South African economy, coal commentators warn
By: Martin Creamer 23rd January 2023 Transnet could be a major disaster to the South African economy if everybody does not get involved, commentator Michael Avery warned in his column in Business Day on Monday on Transnet Freight Rail and South Africa’s lagging coal exports. “We must be sharply focused on Transnet and its... →
South32 expects further production growth in H2; flags $100m build in working capital
By: Darren Parker 23rd January 2023 Diversified miner South32 achieved a 12% year-on-year increase in group copper equivalent production for the first half of the 2023 financial year on the back of recent investments in copper and low-carbon aluminium capacity. "Group copper equivalent production increased . . . as we benefitted... →
South32 CEO Graham Kerr
Eskom’s problems are not coal related, Minerals Council assures
By: Martin Creamer 20th January 2023 A social media campaign set on halting coal exports through the Richards Bay Coal Terminal to purportedly alleviate Eskom’s loadshedding has been noted with concern by Minerals Council South Africa. “This campaign is not based on any facts and instead relies on outright fallacious allegations... →
Richards Bay Coal Terminal activity.
Private sector energy, Africa Hydrogen export, Williamson mine make headlines
20th January 2023 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks the 9 GW of various energy projects in the private sector; Africa's position to export hydrogen; the now contained tailings breach at Petra Diamonds Williamson mine. →
Africa can export its sunshine as hydrogen, prof highlights ahead of big Sun City event
By: Martin Creamer 18th January 2023 JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – In the past, geopolitics was such that oil- and gas-rich countries developed faster, but now countries that are able to export their sunshine in the form of hydrogen will be the ones in the pound seats as the world transitions to clean, green energy. →
Measures to contain diamond mine tailings breach complete – Petra
By: Martin Creamer 17th January 2023 When the eastern wall of a tailings storage facility at the Williamson diamond mine, in Tanzania, was breached on November 7 last year, precautionary measures to contain the tailings material and strengthen the New Alamasi water dam were carried out at the operation which is owned 75% by... →
Historic Koffiefontein diamond mine to be placed on care and maintenance – Petra
By: Martin Creamer 16th January 2023 London-listed Africa-focused Petra Diamonds announced on Monday that the historic Koffiefontein diamond mine would be placed on care-and-maintenance. As reported by Mining Weekly in May last year, Petra was exploring a responsible exit from its investment in the Koffiefontein diamond mining... →
Electricity tariff increase will push mining costs up 33% by end-2024 – Minerals Council
By: Marleny Arnoldi 13th January 2023 The Minerals Council has noted with dismay the above-inflation electricity tariff increase of 18.65% that the National Energy Regulator of South Africa granted to Eskom in its 2023/24 financial year, starting April 1. This increase, coupled with the 12.74% tariff increased that is poised for... →
China’s reopening should underpin commodity demand acceleration – Barclays
By: Martin Creamer 13th January 2023 China’s reopening and ‘whatever it takes’ approach to the property sector are tectonic shifts that should underpin an acceleration in commodity demand through 2023, say Barclays Equity Research analysts. 2023 is set to be another strong year for miners, European metals and mining analysts Amos... →
Lithium, green hydrogen make headlines
13th January 2023 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses lithium sales out of the country this month; the ANC's statement that South Africa should become a green hydrogen centre; and the need for collaboration for a green hydrogen transition in the near future. →
Lithium sales from South Africa on track to begin this month, Marula Mining reports
By: Martin Creamer 12th January 2023 Sales of lithium processed out of stockpiles at the Blesberg project in the Northern Cape are expected to commence this month. “We’re on track for the first delivery of a thousand tons through to the offtake party that we’ve contracted with,” Marula Mining CEO Jason Brewer told Mining Weekly in a... →
Platinum-boosting clean hydrogen projects, patents are all the rage
By: Martin Creamer 11th January 2023 The implementation agreement for Namibia’s planned multibillion-dollar Hyphen Hydrogen Energy project is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of this year, Namibia President Hage Geingob revealed in his 2023 New Year’s message. Egypt has granted approval for two green hydrogen projects in... →
Pronounced platinum production plummet predicted by independent consultant
By: Martin Creamer 10th January 2023 Global mine supply of platinum will fall by 500 000 oz to a million ounces as South Africa’s power shortage lowers production from 2023 to 2027, independent precious metals consultant Dr David Davis calculates in a summary report on platinum group metals (PGMs) production and Eskom. Davis, who... →
Independent consultant Dr David Davis
Gold posts marginal gain in 2022, up 3% in December – WGC
By: Donna Slater 10th January 2023 A 3% gain in December, owing to a weaker dollar, took the value of gold to $1 814/oz, resulting in a year-on-year gain of 0.4% – something the World Gold Council (WGC) says looked unlikely to many just two months ago. The WGC says 2022 provided a “textbook” example of how diverse sources of... →
Global commodities market volatility to ease in 2023 after disruptive 2022 – ERG
By: Donna Slater 20th December 2022 As a result of short-term price drivers, such as the ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns in China, monetary policy in the US and the fallout from the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most commodity prices sold off sharply this year – a trend that is likely to ease in 2023, says... →
Minerals Council, Transnet to establish joint structures to improve rail, ports performance
By: Marleny Arnoldi 19th December 2022 State-owned freight utility Transnet and the Minerals Council South Africa have agreed to form joint collaborative structures to ensure all possible actions are taken to stabilise and improve the throughput of South Africa’s rail and ports systems. Transnet recognises the integrated nature of the... →
Jubilee resolves Zambia copper concentrator issue; cites successful trial of new extractive methods
By: Marleny Arnoldi 19th December 2022 Aim- and AltX-listed Jubilee Metals Group has completed a water infrastructure upgrade at its Roan copper concentrator, in Zambia, and continues to advance cobalt and copper production from waste at its Sable refinery, which is also located in Zambia. The Roan copper concentrator had faced... →
Harmony finalises Eva Copper acquisition
By: Donna Slater 15th December 2022 JSE-listed gold miner Harmony Gold reports that its acquisition of the Eva Copper project from Copper Mountain Mining Corporation, has been finalised, with the R3-billion ($170-million) payment due to be made before the end of the week using cash and available revolving credit facilities. The... →
Pan African gold operation receives Eskom approval to connect to grid
By: Martin Creamer 15th December 2022 The 10 MW Elikhulu solar renewable energy plant developed at Evander gold operations has become the first embedded project over 1 MW to receive full grid code compliance from Eskom. This was announced at the weekend by JUWI Renewable Energies and South African mid-tier gold producer Pan African... →
Platinum-based hydrogen, fuel cell decarbonisation winning global support
By: Martin Creamer 14th December 2022 Platinum-based green hydrogen and fuel cell clean energy solutions made news across a broad front in 2022. Active support for the creation of a viable green hydrogen economy, along with the firm underpinning of a just energy transition in South Africa, have captured many headlines. →
GoldFields, Amplats, Anglo American make headlines
14th December 2022 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses Chris Griffith stepping down as GoldFields CEO; underground mining at Amplats’s Mogalakwena PGMs mine; and the effects of a changing world on Anglo American. →
Reutech Mining wins fall-of-ground technology challenge
By: Darren Parker 13th December 2022 Geotechnical monitoring radar systems company Reutech Mining has been revealed as the winner of the Rock Hazard Identification and Safe Removal Innovation Challenge, an initiative by the Mandela Mining Precinct (MMP) and the Minerals Council South Africa, supported by mining companies... →
With Preece as interim CEO, Mokoatle will head Gold Fields South Africa
By: Martin Creamer 13th December 2022 In what is a transformational high point, Benford Mokoatle will run Gold Fields South Africa from January 1 when Martin Preece steps up as interim CEO following the sudden step down of Chris Griffith over the Yamana Gold transaction not succeeding. The Gold Fields South Africa EPV position goes... →
Metalla adds royalties on Barrick’s Lama complex
By: Creamer Media Reporter 13th December 2022 NYSE- and TSX-V-listed Metalla Royalty & Streaming has entered into a royalty purchase agreement to acquire royalties on metals extracted from gold major Barrick Gold’s Lama gold project, in Argentina, for $7.5-million. Metalla would acquire an existing 2.5% to 3.75% gross value return royalty... →
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