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            <title>Palladium demand support may emerge from zero-emission review, Heraeus reports</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The UK’s review of its zero-emission vehicle mandate could provide some support to automotive palladium demand If manufacturers are given greater flexibility over the pace of battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption, Heraeus states in its latest precious metals review. In a policy review that could see the UK follow the EU in easing requirements, the UK has embarked on consultation regarding the appropriateness of its current annual zero-emission targets remaining in place as BEV sales fall short.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>PRECIOUS METALS</category>
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            <title>British firm offers to restart mothballed Australian manganese smelter</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Natrium Redox Technologies, a green technology startup based in Britain, said on Monday it had made a firm proposal to the Tasmanian government to acquire and restart Australia's only manganese smelter, to supply global battery and electric vehicle markets.

EY Parthenon said last month the Liberty Bell Bay (LBB) Smelter would close after a proposed sale fell through. The smelter, formerly owned by British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance, entered voluntary administration in March and liquidation this month after suspending operations mid-last year.]]></description>
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            <title>Minerals Council hails launch of partnership to unlock growth, jobs, confidence</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Minerals Council South Africa has responded exceedingly positively to the launch by President Cyril Ramaphosa of the third phase of South Africa’s Government-Business Partnership for Growth and Jobs, which marks the next chapter of a joint effort between government and business to accelerate inclusive economic growth, unlock investment, strengthen confidence and create jobs. The goal is to lift South Africa’s economic growth to 3% by 2030 and create one-million jobs. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>SOUTH AFRICAN MINING PARTNERSHIP</category>
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            <title>MIT-spinout SiTration, BHP start trialling copper recovery from legacy mine water</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Further to Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinout SiTration and global miner BHP's initiative to trial valorisation technology in the historic Globe-Miami mining district of Arizona, the companies have announced two pilot deployments at BHP's Copper Cities site. Starting this month, SiTration and BHP will validate continuous and autonomous production of copper from legacy mining water over one month using an initial small-scale pilot plant. A larger deployment is planned for later this year to produce up to two tonnes of commercial-scale copper cathodes over a two-month period.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>COPPER</category>
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            <title>Hive Hydrogen, Exxaro, DRDGold developments make headlines </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks the latest updates on the $5.8-billion green hydrogen-ammonia project in Nelson Mandela Bay, Exxaro scaling its renewable-energy business; and DRDGold’s very good year.  ]]></description>
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            <title>Exxaro wants energy, future metals to be more than half of group earnings by 2030</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Exxaro wants its growing energy and future-facing metals businesses to account for more than half of group earnings by 2030. “This is the business we are building for tomorrow,” Exxaro CEO Ben Magara said while displaying a slide showing a diversified natural resources champion not only providing earnings and reducing carbon intensity, but also providing the career opportunities of many young and upcoming people "to make sure that we remain a key driver to our country's economy". (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>DIVERSIFIED MINER</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Fortescue sees power sales from Pilbara green grid when demand emerges, declares lower dividend </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Fortescue's green grid investment in Australia's northwest is set to provide surplus energy that it can sell to data centres as commercial demand develops, although it has yet to ink any supply agreements, it said as it posted in line results on Thursday.

Fortescue is investing heavily in green energy, battery storage and research as it builds a large scale green energy grid in Western Australia's Pilbara region targeting 1.2GW to 1.5GW of total solar capacity by 2028.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>IRON-ORE</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Fortescue produces first hot metal towards green iron production in Australia</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/fortescue-produces-first-hot-metal-towards-green-iron-production-in-australia-2026-08-19</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Iron-ore major Fortescue has produced first hot metal at its Green Metal project at Christmas Creek, marking the first successful operation of its electric smelting process and a major step towards producing green metal in Australia.

The pilot project was built to test new technology and develop a pathway for ultimately producing green metal using Pilbara ore.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>IRON-ORE</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>South Africa’s $5.8-billion green hydrogen-ammonia project is ‘going really well’</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/south-africas-58-billion-green-hydrogen-ammonia-project-is-going-really-well-2026-08-18</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The $5.8-billion green hydrogen-ammonia project in South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Bay has been a hard slog but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Mining Weekly can report the venture, for which a green-hydrogen-generating electrolyser and ammonia loop solution has already been selected, is “going really well” and developer Hive Hydrogen is expected to make “some very big announcements” at next month’s Africa Green Hydrogen Summit in Cape Town.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>PLATINUM GROUP METALS</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>BHP profit tops estimates as copper powers growth, to pay highest dividend in 4 years</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[BHP Group reported better-than-expected full-year earnings and declared its highest annual dividend in four years, boosted by record copper prices that cemented the metal's lead over iron-ore as the miner's biggest earnings driver.

CEO Brandon Craig, who took the top job at the world's biggest listed mining company last month, underlined BHP's project pipeline that could boost its copper production by as much as 40% by 2035, even as production falls in the short term.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>DIVERSIFIED MINERS</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>South Africa’s minerals future to be explored by emerging researchers on Oct 2  </title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/south-africas-minerals-future-to-be-explored-by-emerging-researchers-on-oct-2-2026-08-17</link>
            <description><![CDATA[At a time when calls are being made for South Africa to modernise its mining sector, emerging researchers will on October 2 have a next-generation platform to explore the future of the minerals industry. The event is being hosted by South Africa’s State-owned mineral and metallurgical organisation, Mintek, whose science convention for innovators (SCI) event will assemble emerging researchers across themes such as critical minerals, energy and innovation, emerging technologies, sustainability and the circular economy.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>MINERAL RESEARCH</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Canada's OceanaGold to buy Ausgold for about $553m, expand Australia presence</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Canadian gold and copper producer OceanaGold plans to acquire Australia's Ausgold in a deal valued at A$776-million ($552.74-million), the companies said on Monday.

The deal represents a premium of 27.7% to Ausgold's previous close on Friday and gives OceanaGold ownership of the Katanning project in Western Australia.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>GOLD</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Duke University, UCT make tangible investment recommendations ahead of lithium, rare earths boom</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/duke-university-uct-make-tangible-investment-recommendations-ahead-of-lithium-rare-earths-boom-2026-08-14</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A first-of-its-kind report from researchers at Duke University and the University of Cape Town (UCT) has mapped the most credible research and development opportunities for lithium and rare earth processing, with the researchers offering recommendations to countries and companies in the Global South that are trying to go beyond mining to expand their processing capability.

The report helps to inform the global collaborative platform that is the Council for Critical Minerals Development in the Global South that was created in response to the anticipated rises in commodity demands for lithium and rare earths, among others. ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>LITHIUM &amp; RARE EARTHS</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>AI and alloys, mining innovation, Sasol's PEM electrolyser make headlines </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer tells us about how AI is helping to develop alloys for use in new applications; the study that’s shown that there is considerable room to increase mining’s innovation intensity; and Sasol’s PEM electrolyser that was recently launched.  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Anglo strikes year-long iron-ore deal with China’s State buyer</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/anglo-strikes-year-long-iron-ore-deal-with-chinas-state-buyer-2026-08-14</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Anglo American has struck a yearlong supply deal with China’s State-backed iron-ore buyer, joining BHP Group among miners that have finalised an agreement with the group. South African producer Kumba Iron-ore, part of Anglo American, reached a deal with China Mineral Resources Group Co to supply iron-ore to its mills from April 1 this year until March 31, 2027, according to a person familiar with the matter. The agreement doesn’t include-ore from Anglo’s Minas-Rio project in Brazil, which is not sold to China on a long-term contract basis, said the person, who didn’t want to be named discussing confidential information.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that mining production decreased by 4% year-on-year in June, with the largest negative contributor being platinum group metals (PGMs), which recorded a decline of 8.4% year-on-year, contributing -2.4 percentage points. Coal production decreased by 6.6% and contributed -1.7 percentage points, while iron-ore production declined by 10.2% and contributed -1.5 percentage points.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[ASX-listed Brazilian Rare Earths' newly published scoping study on the Rocha da Rocha rare earths project, in Brazil, particularly its anchor Monte Alto deposit, finds the potential for life-of-mine average production of 5 276 t/t of neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr) oxide and 2 253 t/y of heavy rare earth concentrate, containing about 247 t of dysprosium and terbium and 989 t of yttrium.

This scale positions Brazilian Rare Earths as a potential leading supplier for a growing market that needs more heavy rare earth feedstocks. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ministerial Order banning the export of copper and cobalt concentrates, which also introduces a new tax regime, is unlikely to have a material impact on either the global copper or cobalt market, but could add a near-term risk premium to copper prices while details of the policy are clarified, BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, posits. On August 6, Reuters reported that the DRC has banned exports of copper and cobalt concentrates, citing a joint Ministerial order dated June 29, signed by Mines Minister Louis Kabamba Watum, Foreign Trade Minister Julien Paluku Kahongya and Economy Minister Daniel Mukoko Samba.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[US-based think tank Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) outlines in its latest report 'India's looming iron-ore challenge' how the country may not have enough access to the right quality of ore for its ambitious steelmaking expansion plans.

IEEFA says how India sources imported iron-ore and how much domestic ore it upgrades could shape the country's steelmaking technology choices, as well as influence India's dependence on imported coking coal and the pace of steel decarbonisation. ]]></description>
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            <title>Southern Palladium's JSE share price surges on granting of Bengwenyama mining right</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Johannesburg- and Australia-listed Southern Palladium's share price on the JSE jumped by nearly 28% on August 11 after the company confirmed that South Africa's Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) had granted the mining right for the company's flagship Bengwneyama platinum group metals project, in Limpopo. The granting of the mining right marks the completion of a comprehensive regulatory engagement process between Southern Palladium and the DMPR following the lodgement and acceptance of the mining right application in October 2023.]]></description>
            <author>Chanel de Bruyn</author>
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