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Parties sign terms of reference to catalyse mining industry modernisation
By: Donna Slater Updated 36 minutes ago Representatives of the Mandela Mining Precinct (MMP) and five labour unions on October 26 signed an agreement on the terms of reference for the parties to collaborate on modernising the South African mining industry, resulting in the formation of the MMP – Organised Labour Consultative (OLC)... →
Eskom’s R178bn grid plan points to ‘scary’ step change in expansionary capex
By: Terence Creamer Updated 46 minutes ago State-owned electricity utility Eskom has outlined a R178-billion grid investment plan for the coming ten years, which is premised on a dramatic acceleration of expansionary capital expenditure. The Transmission Development Plan (TDP) for the period 2022 to 2031 is largely geared towards... →
Eskom group executive for transmission Segomoco Scheppers
Bowen executes Bluff buy
By: Esmarie Iannucci 26th October 2021 ASX-listed Bowen Coking Coal has struck a deal with fellow listed mining contractor MACA to acquire the Bluff PCI coal mine, in Queensland. Bowen Coking Coal was awarded preferred bidder status in July this year for the sale process of the Bluff mine by the receivers and managers of MACA. →
Diesel and load-shedding feature in summer outlook as Eskom's maintenance recovery takes longer than envisaged 
By: Terence Creamer 25th October 2021 State-owned electricity utility Eskom says its reliability maintenance recovery (RMR) interventions have not yet succeeded in stabilising the performance of its unpredictable coal fleet and that more than year of ongoing maintenance is needed to address the poor performance of its generation... →
Weekly SA coal report
25th October 2021 Coal prices came down to earth in a sustained sell-off last week, as the market tried to find a level amidst falling global natgas prices and Chinese domestic coal prices. Demand destruction, price caps and forced shutdowns of some parts of Chinese industry have helped reign in runaway makets.... →
Eskom to jointly develop solar projects with Exxaro, Seriti
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th October 2021 Coal miners Exxaro and Seriti Resources are joining forces with State-owned power utility Eskom to jointly develop renewable energy projects. The landmark memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the parties on October 25 spells out the companies’ development plan to lower their carbon... →
Climate Council calls for end to coal and gas as Australia places last
By: Esmarie Iannucci 25th October 2021 A new report by the Climate Council has ranked Australia in last place out of all developed countries, for its performance on climate change. The report assessed both Australia’s track record on climate and its commitments moving forward against its international peers and found that Australia... →
Exxaro fulfills yearly corporate sustainability initiative obligations
By: Simone Liedtke 22nd October 2021 South African coal and heavy minerals miner Exxaro Resources has fulfilled its yearly obligations as a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. Exxaro recently delivered its UNGC Communication on Progress (COP) document, which... →
Polish miners take to Luxembourg streets in mine closure protest
By: Bloomberg 22nd October 2021 A group of about 2 000 Polish miners has traveled more than 800 km to Luxembourg to protest against the decision of the European Court of Justice to halt production at their lignite mine. The Friday demonstration, heavily guarded by the Luxembourg and Belgian police, comes five months after the... →
India considering strategic reserves for imported coal
By: Reuters 22nd October 2021 India is considering maintaining strategic reserves of natural gas and imported coal to address future supply shocks, a senior Power Ministry official said on Thursday, as the energy hungry nation battles a crippling coal shortage. A surge in power demand combined with a fall in imports due to... →
Indonesia 2021 coal output seen at 610Mt, below target
By: Reuters 22nd October 2021 Indonesia is likely to miss its coal output target this year, an Energy Ministry official said on Friday. Heavy rains are slowing mine and port operations in Indonesia, the world's biggest exporter of coal used for power generation, mining executives have told Reuters. Production is expected... →
Australian coal giant turns China ban into a win with shipments from US
By: Bloomberg 22nd October 2021 China’s ban on Australian coal imports has proved a boon for Sydney-listed Coronado Global Resources, one of the world’s top producers of the metallurgical variety that’s key to steelmaking. With mines from the Appalachian mountains in the US to Australia’s Bowen Basin, geographical diversity... →
Solutions on offer for entire mining chain
22nd October 2021 From the beginning of mining operations to the end-of-life, distributor of bearings, power transmission and allied products in Southern Africa Bearings International (BI) has products that service the entire mining value chain. →
Coal and iron pile up in South Africa on rail constraints
By: Bloomberg 21st October 2021 Kumba Iron Ore’s struggle in getting supplies to ports is further highlighting the constraints South Africa faces in exporting key commodities including coal. The continent’s top iron ore producer said its premium steelmaking material is being held up at mines in South Africa’s Northern Cape... →
How South Africa plans to secure backing for its ‘Just Transition Financing Facility’ at COP26
By: Terence Creamer 21st October 2021 South Africa aims to meet with other governments and multilateral finance institutions on the sidelines of the upcoming COP26 gathering to progress talks on raising concessional funding, in phases, for a Cabinet-endorsed ‘Just Transition Financing Facility’ to fund green projects in the... →
South Africa’s integrated energy policy ‘vacuum’ discouraging investment, report warns
By: Terence Creamer 21st October 2021 The continued absence of a long-term vision for South Africa’s energy sector is creating a policy “vacuum” and undermining investment, the 2021 edition of the South African Energy Risk Report states. Published by the South African National Energy Association (Sanea), the report highlights that... →
China power crisis boosts coal imports from Indonesia to record
By: Bloomberg 21st October 2021 Indonesia is now overwhelmingly China’s biggest overseas supplier of coal, with shipments hitting a record last month after Beijing loosened curbs on imports to tackle its power crisis. Cargoes of coking, thermal and brown coal from the Southeast Asian nation surpassed 21 million tons in... →
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
Diamonds, iron-ore drive 2% rise in Anglo American's third-quarter output
By: Simone Liedtke 21st October 2021 Diversified miner Anglo American achieved a 2% increase in production for the third quarter, ended September 30, which CEO Mark Cutifani largely attributed to planned higher rough diamond production at its De Beers subsidiary, as well as increased production from the Minas-Rio iron-ore project,... →
Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani
Allegiance raises A$30m for Alabama mine buy
By: Esmarie Iannucci 21st October 2021 ASX-listed Allegiance Coal will raise A$30-million through a share placement to institutional and professional investors to fund the acquisition of the Short Creek mine, in Alabama, and to bring the project into production. Allegiance on Thursday announced that it had entered into an agreement... →
Zimbabwe’s power utility to finish new coal-fired units in 2022
By: Bloomberg 20th October 2021 Zimbabwe’s State-owned power utility expects to complete the addition of coal-fired units next year, bucking a global trend to reduce reliance on the fossil fuel. The $1.5-billion expansion by Zimbabwe Power Company and China’s Sinohydro will finish one unit next year in September and another in... →
China commodity prices tumble after planner mulls coal intervention
By: Reuters 20th October 2021 China's commodities markets slumped on Wednesday, led by sharp declines in thermal coal prices, after the state planner said it was looking at ways to intervene to cool off record high prices of the fuel. Cheaper coal prices and its increasing supply could help ease China's factory gate... →
Coal tops $300/t China as cold wave adds to energy crisis
By: Bloomberg 19th October 2021 Coal futures in China surged to another record to put a previously unthinkable level of 2 000 yuan ($311) a ton in sight, as a cold blast adds to the country’s energy crisis. Cool weather has descended on eastern China, sparking an early start to the winter heating season in some areas. That’s... →
Biggest US coal miner surges 17% as global energy crisis boots demand
By: Bloomberg 19th October 2021 The global energy crisis that’s fueling demand for coal boosted third-quarter results for Peabody Energy, pushing up shares 17%. Sales exceeded $900-million, the highest in seven quarters, and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation of $280-million to $290-million... →
Nersa yet to decide if it will oppose Eskom’s MYPD5 court application
By: Terence Creamer 19th October 2021 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has confirmed the receipt of Eskom’s High Court application, through which the utility is seeking to have the regulator’s decision to reject its fifth multiyear price determination (MYPD5) revenue application reviewed and set aside. However,... →
Transnet restores some operations at Richards Bay after fire
By: Reuters 19th October 2021 South African monopoly port operator Transnet said on Monday it had restored many of its operations since a fire broke out at its Richards Bay terminal last week, but that it still needed to ensure affected areas where safe before resuming others. Richards Bay Bulk Terminal, Africa's largest coal... →
Where a $5bn green incentive runs into politics of coal
By: Bloomberg 18th October 2021 The world’s richest countries are courting South Africa as a model of how to transition to a more climate-friendly future from a dependency on coal. While $5-billion of cheap loans and grants are on offer as a first step, transforming Africa’s most industrialized economy demands more than cash.... →
South African energy sector the most carbon intensive of G20 nations
By: Schalk Burger 18th October 2021 South Africa’s energy sector has the highest carbon-intensity of the Group of 20 (G20) nations owing to its heavy reliance on coal, according to the latest assessment by Climate Transparency International. In 2020, three-quarters (74%) of South Africa’s total primary energy supply was derived... →
Thungela lowers production guidance owing to deteriorating rail performance
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 18th October 2021 JSE-listed coal exporter Thungela Resources says that, following an initial recovery in the performance of Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) subsequent to the yearly maintenance shutdown in July, rail performance has continued to deteriorate in the second half of the year. Thungela consequently... →
Creecy says a climate finance breakthrough is key to COP26 success
By: Terence Creamer 15th October 2021 South Africa’s Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy says a breakthrough is needed at COP26 on the issue of climate finance, warning that the failure of developed countries to honour their $100-billion-a-year commitments has led a breakdown of trust. Addressing a virtual... →
Glencore Coal launches supplier development platform to empower local communities
By: Donna Slater 15th October 2021 Glencore Coal has launched its Enterprise Supplier Development (ESD) portal as a key tool to support small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) in the communities in which it operates in an effort to alleviate some of the socioeconomic challenges faced by the communities. The Glencore ESD... →
Hydrogen fuel cell has inexhaustible future, says Fortescue’s Andrew Forrest
By: Martin Creamer 15th October 2021 The hydrogen fuel cell has an inexhaustible future as a means of maintaining the planet’s high standard of living, said Fortescue Metals Group chairperson Andrew Forrest during a global online symposium this week. “Our little planet’s cooking, the world’s impatient and there’s any amount of... →
Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh (left) and Fortescue Metals Group chairperson Andrew Forrest (right)
Eskom seeks urgent court order to have 2022/23 tariff application adjudicated by Nersa
By: Terence Creamer 15th October 2021 State-owned electricity utility Eskom has approached the Gauteng High Court to have the regulator’s recent decision to reject its revenue application for the period 2022/23 to 2024/25 set aside for being “patently irrational and unlawful”. Eskom approached the court this week for a review of the... →
Eskom CFO Calib Cassim, who deposed the founding affidavit, speaking at a previous Nersa hearing
Asia’s coal mining revival doesn’t mean the energy crisis is over
By: Bloomberg 15th October 2021 A crunch on coal production from key hubs in China and India is beginning to ease, but that won’t be enough to halt Asia’s energy crisis. Major industries in the region, including steelmakers to chemical producers, are expected to continue to face power disruptions through the winter, as fuel... →
South Africa's banks say they can't cut off funding for coal just yet
By: Reuters 15th October 2021 South African banks say they have to keep funding at least some coal projects for now because an immediate halt would put huge political and economic strains on a nation that relies on the most polluting of fossil fuels. The top four banks have started to withdraw financing, with Nedbank and... →
Opinion: Combatting climate change with green energy solutions for Africa
15th October 2021 In this opinion article, Standard Bank head of sustainable finance, wholesale clients Greg Fyfe and head of power, wholesale clients Rentia van Tonder write that Africa has no choice but to join the global drive toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions; however, the continent must facilitate a... →
Differential GPS brings much needed autonomy to blasting
15th October 2021 AECI Mining Explosives’ new, high-accuracy (sub-1m) Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) brings autonomy to the blast hole tagging process, thus maximising efficiency by eliminating potential human error on the bench and ensuring integrity of drill and blast operations. Safety and good... →
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