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Tharisa mine's life extended to 2041
By: Creamer Media Reporter 18th November 2021 The life-of-mine of JSE- and LSE-listed Tharisa's openpit chrome and platinum group metals mine, in South Africa's North West province, has been extended by seven years to 2041. Tharisa notes that a yearly review of the mine's mineral resource and mineral reserve statement indicates a significant... →
Barloworld hands over Caterpillar equipment to Tharisa
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 16th November 2021 Barloworld Equipment South Africa on November 16 handed over two CAT 785D Mining Trucks to platinum group metals and chrome concentrates producer Tharisa for its mining operations near Rustenburg in the North West province. Tharisa is longstanding customer of Barloworld Equipment South Africa. →
Ribbon cutting and key handover
Expect to be unemployed from age 40, Miller warns graduates entering mining 
By: Martin Creamer 15th November 2021 Because of the collapse of investment in greenfields exploration in South Africa, any mining graduate entering the profession today can expect to be unemployed from the age of 40, said AmaranthCX director and founder Paul Miller on Monday, when he pointed out that South Africa is now at an... →
Mineral exploration should be incentivised, says IDC’s Thabiso Sekano
By: Martin Creamer 12th November 2021 Mineral exploration should be incentivised so that South Africa’s great mineral endowment can be optimally leveraged to lower unemployment, improve export revenues, and strengthen this country’s gross domestic product (GDP). That is the view of Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) mining,... →
China to step up strategic mineral resource exploration
By: Reuters 12th November 2021 China will step up exploration of strategic mineral resources including petroleum, natural gas, copper, chrome, tungsten, rare earths and others during 2021 to 2025, the top economic planner said on Friday. The National Development and Reform Commission revealed the plan for promoting... →
Minerals Council welcomes focus on structural reforms in MTBPS
By: Creamer Media Reporter 11th November 2021 The country requires a continued focus on stabilising the nation’s public finances and, most importantly, the critical need to implement more aggressive structural and institutional reforms that can drive up investment and inclusive growth in the economy, the Minerals Council South Africa says.... →
US adds nickel, zinc to draft critical minerals list, drops potash
By: Mariaan Webb 11th November 2021 The US Geological Survey (USGS) has added nickel and zinc to its proposed list of 50 ‘critical minerals’ – defined as those essential to economic or national security and have a supply chain vulnerable to disruption – while four others, including potash, have fallen off the draft 2021 list. The... →
Minerals Council backs Eskom leadership, urges govt to cut procurement red tape
By: Martin Creamer 10th November 2021 Minerals Council South Africa on Wednesday supported the Eskom leadership team in its efforts to stabilise South Africa’s electricity supply and urged government to focus on shortening the bureaucratic processes hindering Eskom’s ability to procure urgently required spares for power stations and... →
Bafokeng clinch green business boost as part of Northam platinum deal
By: Martin Creamer 9th November 2021 Royal Bafokeng Holdings has accepted an unsolicited offer from Northam Platinum for up to a third of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) in a R17-billion transaction that opens the way for the community to accelerate into the fast-growing green energy economy with Northam’s help. Royal Bafokeng... →
Royal Bafokeng Holdings CEO Albertinah Kekana (left) and Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne.
Mining modernisation to benefit junior miners, exploration in South Africa
By: Schalk Burger 4th November 2021 The development and applications of technologies and techniques in mining to make it safer, more productive and more efficient are benefiting junior miners and adding tools and capabilities to stimulate minerals exploration in South Africa, mining and technology experts said on November 4. During... →
BHP urges Noront shareholders to take up offer
By: Creamer Media Reporter 28th October 2021 Diversified major BHP has urged shareholders of Canadian junior Noront Resources to take up its offer, stating that it is the only one currently on the table and that there is no guarantee that another offer will materialise. The previous proposal of Wyloo Metals of C$0.70 a share fell away when... →
Merafe’s nine-month ferrochrome output up 64.6% y/y
By: Simone Liedtke 22nd October 2021 JSE-listed ferrochrome producer Merafe Resources’ attributable ferrochrome production from the Glencore-Merafe chrome venture for the third quarter ended September 30 was 77 000 t. Production for the nine months to September 30 increased by 64.6% year-on-year to 276 000 t. →
No zero carbon without green hydrogen, US pledging $1/kg coal-parity price
By: Martin Creamer 21st October 2021 The world will be unable to meet its zero-carbon targets without the introduction of green hydrogen solutions, says Plug Power chief strategy officer Sanjay Shrestha, at a time when the US has launched a programme to cut the cost of clean hydrogen by 80%. Nasdaq-listed Plug Power, a pure play... →
Plug Power chief strategy officer Sanjay Shrestha
Policy-not-law charter judgment going long way towards providing certainty – NSDV
By: Martin Creamer 19th October 2021 The court judgement that the mining charter is policy and not law goes a long way towards providing regulatory certainty, says NSDV mining law senior associate Muhammed Khan – but it is not the end of the road, he cautions in a 1 500-word analysis entitled The Great Mining Charter Debate. Khan... →
Incentive needed for smaller end of stock exchange to survive – Miller
By: Martin Creamer 18th October 2021 An incentive is needed for the listing of companies on the smaller end of the stock exchange, which is facing an existential crisis, said AmaranthCX director and owner Paul Miller on Monday. Reacting to the groundswell of headlines about delistings and lack of listings on the Johannesburg Stock... →
South Africa needs to ramp up critical minerals exploration as world decarbonises - study
By: Terence Creamer 13th October 2021 The South African mining sector can remain internationally competitive and support socioeconomic development only if it drives decarbonisation and adapts to the global shift in commodity demand towards minerals used in green sectors such as renewable electricity and electric vehicles (EVs), a new... →
Tharisa achieves record quarterly output
By: Creamer Media Reporter 12th October 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome concentrate producer Tharisa reports that its Tharisa mine, in the North West, achieved its highest production ever during the quarter ended September 30. Platinum group metals output for the quarter increased to 43 700 oz of platinum, palladium, rhodium,... →
Exploration key to keeping South Africa on right side of future – investors
By: Martin Creamer 11th October 2021 Exploration is key to keeping South Africa on the right side of the future-facing metals scenario, the Joburg Indaba heard last week from potential investors. During a panel discussion on mining sector prospects covered by Mining Weekly, the heads of international investment companies commented... →
Form top left clockwise are Fiona Perrott-Humphrey, Olivia Markham, Brett Beatty, Bernard Swanepoel and Mick McMullen.
South Africa’s exploration investment lowest since democracy began, Joburg Indaba hears
By: Martin Creamer 7th October 2021 South Africa’s mining industry is at its lowest level of exploration investment since democracy began in 1994, the Joburg Indaba heard on Thursday. “Never have we spent less – and this is a pity because significant promises were made about an exploration plan for the country,” Joburg Indaba... →
Transnet building pipeline of transactions for private sector participation
By: Terence Creamer 7th October 2021 Transnet CEO Portia Derby says the State-owned group received a “fantastic” response to its two recent requests for information (RFIs) for private participation at the ports of Durban and Ngqura and that several other private sector participation (PSP) transactions are under development. The... →
South Africa in danger of missing out on commodity boom, Joburg Indaba hears
By: Martin Creamer 6th October 2021 A much more enabling environment is needed to ensure that South Africa does not miss out on yet another commodity boom, the Joburg Indaba heard on Wednesday. “We know that we’ve missed at least one commodity boom,” Foskor chairperson, Industrial Development Corporation director and founding... →
Innovative wireless sensor approach could make exploration cheaper – Prof
By: Martin Creamer 5th October 2021 An innovative wireless sensor method of mapping the subsurface of the earth could make exploration cheaper and mining safer, says Professor Musa Manzi, the award-winning director of the Seismic Research Centre of the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. The method, which... →
Tharisa cold commissions Vulcan recovery plant
By: Donna Slater 5th October 2021 JSE- and LSE-listed platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome co-producer Tharisa reports that cold-commissioning of its R1-billion Vulcan ultra-fine chrome recovery and beneficiation plant has started and that the plant’s commissioning remains firmly on track, with initial saleable production due... →
Investment in mining crucial to ensure continued contribution to economy – PwC
By: Martin Creamer 5th October 2021 Investment in the mining industry is crucial to ensure its continued contribution to the South African economy, says PwC in its thirteenth edition of SA Mine 2021, a series of publications that highlights trends in the South African mining industry. In a year of doom and gloom on so many fronts,... →
Giant private mining companies getting away with no obligation to report anything publicly 
By: Martin Creamer 4th October 2021 A globally significant chrome producer operating six chrome mines and employing 7 000 people inside South Africa – with a social labour plan obligation on every mine, with tax and royalty obligations paid to the State – is permitted to operate in this country with no ongoing public disclosure... →
Platinum offering good relative value as investment – Northam
By: Martin Creamer 4th October 2021 Platinum is viewed as an investment case for the moment and is offering good relative value, says Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne. Palladium appears more vulnerable than platinum to vehicle production downside risks, says World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) institutional distribution head... →
Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne
Northam board approves renewable energy projects plus hydrogen project
By: Martin Creamer 1st October 2021 The board of platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company Northam Platinum has given its approval for the building of three renewable energy projects at three of the company’s mines plus a hydrogen project at one of them. Northam Platinum CFO Alet Coetzee said this week that board approval had... →
Northam Platinum CFO Alet Coetzee
Countercyclical Northam growth strategy creates 8 000 jobs, 2 000 this year
By: Martin Creamer 30th September 2021 The record operational and financial performance of Northam Platinum in the 12 months to June 30 was accompanied by the creation of 2 335 new sustainable jobs, which takes the total generated by the platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company well-timed growth strategy from 2015 to 8 232. In... →
Northam Platinum’s headline earnings soar 215%
By: Martin Creamer 30th September 2021 The normalised headline earnings of platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company Northam Platinum soared by more than 215% to R10.9-billion in what was a record operational and financial performance in the 12 months to June 30. The JSE-listed company stated on Thursday that its earnings before... →
Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne
Sibanye-Stillwater moving to radical transparency on public tailings disclosure
By: Martin Creamer 29th September 2021 Gold, platinum and green metals company Sibanye-Stillwater is moving towards the embrace of radical transparency when it comes to public disclosure on matters relating to tailings facilities against the backdrop of 230 significant tailings failures having taken place globally. Sibanye-Stillwater... →
Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman
Bauba narrows full-year loss; to raise R34m through claw-back offer
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 29th September 2021 JSE-listed Bauba Resources has posted a total comprehensive loss of R27.23-million for the financial year ended June 30, compared with a loss of R45.28-million in the 2020 financial year. The basic and headline loss a share for the period was 4.73c, compared with 8.07c in the prior financial year. →
Tharisa sets down initial decarbonisation targets
By: Marleny Arnoldi 29th September 2021 Platinum group metals miner Tharisa has announced a target of reducing its carbon emissions by 30% by 2030, from 2020 as a baseline. The company is in the process of developing a roadmap to net carbon neutrality by 2050. →
Mantashe hopeful of turning Limpopo, North West, Northern Cape into new mining hotspots
By: Donna Slater 28th September 2021 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe hopes to spur growth in mining hubs within Limpopo, the North West and the Northern Cape provinces with the launch of the Limpopo Mining Investment Conference, which was held on September 28. During a keynote address, he explained that the... →
Green Sedibelo will use 82% less electricity to take PGMs all the way to end consumer
By: Martin Creamer 28th September 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) producer Sedibelo Platinum Mines is well on its way to becoming the lowest of low-energy PGM energy users and the highest of high on-site beneficiators of metals that are key in the global fight against climate change. Sedibelo’s technology sensation is the remarkable... →
Tharisa makes lead independent director, board committee changes
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 21st September 2021 Dual-listed Tharisa on Tuesday announced a change to its lead independent director and the composition of certain board committees. In addition, the platinum group metals and chrome producer also announced additional senior management appointments to enhance its corporate governance, climate... →
Ferrochrome prices increase 15.4% for fourth quarter, says Merafe
By: Simone Liedtke 21st September 2021 The European benchmark ferrochrome price for the fourth quarter of 2021 has been settled at $1.80/lb, a 15.4% increase from the third quarter, JSE-listed ferrochrome producer Merafe Resources said on Tuesday. Mining Weekly last month reported that steel production had recovered to prepandemic... →
Save SA Smelters responds to ChromeSA’s ‘high-risk’ analysis
By: Martin Creamer 17th September 2021 The Save SA Smelters movement, which has thrown its full weight behind the decision of the Cabinet to impose an export tax on raw chrome leaving the country, on Friday responded to the analysis of ChromeSA that the imposition of such a tax would be high risk. ChromeSA was formed late last year... →
ERG and NFC China to build special coke plant in Kazakhstan
By: Creamer Media Reporter 16th September 2021 Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and China Nonferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering and Construction (NFC China) have signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build a special coke plant at Shubarkol Komir in Kazakhstan. The new 400 000 t/y plant will produce a... →
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