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De Ruyter among headline speakers
27th January 2023 The world’s “largest mining event”, the Investing in African Mining Indaba, is returning to Cape Town in February 2023 and its speaker line-up boasts business, government, policymakers and investors from across the mining industry. In February, attendees will hear from global leaders in the... →
Fortescue sees renewables overtaking iron-ore business
By: Reuters 20th January 2023 Renewable energy is likely to eventually overtake Fortescue Metals Group's FMG.AX iron ore business, despite strong tailwinds for the commodity ahead, the company's former chief executive officer Elizabeth Gaines said at Davos. Fortescue would continue growing its iron ore business, but the scale... →
Glimpse into NECOM’s proposed ‘roadmap to end loadshedding’ 
By: Terence Creamer 20th January 2023 The National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM), which is overseeing the implementation of the National Energy Plan announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in July, presented a ‘Roadmap to end Loadshedding’ to various partners and stakeholders this week. The presentation has not been formally... →
Centamin commissions 36 MW solar plant at Sukari gold mine
By: Darren Parker 19th January 2023 London-listed Centamin commissioned a 36 MW solar plant at its Sukari gold mine, located in the Nubian Desert near the Red Sea in Egypt, during the fourth quarter of last year, resulting in immediate cost savings and reductions in carbon emissions, CEO Martin Horgan has said. At the release of... →
Solidarity starts legal action against Nersa to remove private generation bottlenecks
By: Schalk Burger 19th January 2023 Trade union Solidarity has served legal papers on the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to remove all bottlenecks standing in the way of private energy suppliers. Solidarity stresses that the future of energy in South Africa lies in less State and more private service delivery. →
EIUG outlines supply- and demand-side options for easing loadshedding crisis
By: Terence Creamer 17th January 2023 The Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) has confirmed that its large mining and industrial members have a 4 GW-plus pipeline of generation projects that can be connected to the grid over the next five years to help close the electricity supply gap. However, it argues that other supply- and... →
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... →
Business, labour, civil society agree tariff increases will not fix Eskom
By: Marleny Arnoldi 13th January 2023 State-owned energy utility Eskom says it appreciates the tough tariff decision made by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years, for which the utility has been granted tariff increases of 18.65% and 12.74%, respectively. The utility says... →
VoltVision launches power analytics centre in Joburg
By: Schalk Burger 12th January 2023 Digitised industrial power networks company VoltVision has opened a global power analytics centre in Johannesburg that will provide expert technical interpretation of performance data from clients’ high- and medium-voltage (HV and MV) electrical networks worldwide. The centre will also pioneer... →
Study shows PV plant’s value
16th December 2022 Canadian miner Giyani Metals provided results of a feasibility study (FS) conducted for its K.Hill battery-grade manganese project, located in Botswana, last month. The FS results followed lifecycle assessment – prepared by environmental consultants Minviro – published in late September, which... →
Renewables fuel journey to sustainable mining
16th December 2022 Among South Africa’s many natural endowments, it is blessed with abundant solar energy, a free and inexhaustible resource that can provide renewable energy in mining, states gold producer Pan African Resources on its website. Unavoidably, as mining companies extract minerals from the ground that... →
Increased output attributed to facility expansion
By: Halima Frost 16th December 2022 Aim-listed metals processing company Jubilee Metals Group’s Inyoni platinum group metals (PGMs) processing facility, in Gauteng, has successfully increased its operational output, subsequent to the completion of its capitalisation and expansion programme in March. This is based on Inyoni’s... →
Prioritising energy security
By: Halima Frost 16th December 2022 As part of its greater five-year, R50-billion capital investment programme to extend life-of-mine (LoM) development at several of its operations, platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Impala Platinum (Implats) has allocated R4.3-billion to its energy security and decarbonisation projects in South... →
Solar helps mine reduce costs, decarbonise, mitigate loadshedding
By: Cameron Mackay 16th December 2022 The construction of gold miner Gold Fields’ 50 MW Khanyisa solar photovoltaic (PV) plant at its South Deep gold mine was completed in August this year, and Gold Fields executive VP Martin Preece espouses the benefits thereof to Mining Weekly. Such benefits include, mitigating loadshedding,... →
Solar projects help support miner’s gold, PGMs operations
By: Cameron Mackay 16th December 2022 Diversified miner Sibanye-Stillwater is implementing a range of renewable-energy solar photovoltaic (PV) projects to support its local gold and platinum-group metal (PGM) mining operations. This includes a 50 MW solar PV project to support its gold mining operations, and a combined 175 MW of... →
‘Largest’ solar hybrid project commissioned at mine
16th December 2022 During the international community‘s search for solutions to the climate crisis at the COP27 conference in Egypt in November, international project developer JUWI published a release noting that it had entered into the final stages of commissioning the world’s “largest” solar hybrid project at... →
Study shows mines can reduce energy costs by improving secondary ventilation systems
By: Schalk Burger 13th December 2022 A recent study conducted at a mine with close to 3 MW of underground auxiliary fan power determined that there were electrical inefficiencies of 25%, while the system also delivered 40% less ventilation, or air, to the work faces, says mine ventilation, refrigeration and cooling consulting... →
Qteq faces cartel charges
By: Esmarie Iannucci 9th December 2022 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed civil cartel proceedings in the Federal Court against mining equipment and technology services company Qteq and its executive chairperson Simon Ashton. The ACCC alleges that on seven instances between 2017 and 2019, Qteq... →
Only five solar projects advance to preferred-bidder status following latest renewables round 
By: Terence Creamer 8th December 2022 In a disappointing development, Minerals Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has announced the appointment of only six preferred bidders, with a combined capacity of 1 000 MW, following the evaluation of bids made during South Africa’s latest renewables procurement round. All six are... →
Energy crisis driving an acceleration in renewables installations – IEA
By: Donna Slater 6th December 2022 The global energy crisis is driving an unprecedented acceleration in the installation of renewable power, with total capacity growth worldwide set to almost double in the next five years to reach 2 400 GW by 2027, according to the ‘Renewables 2022’ report published by the International Energy... →
The International Energy Agency’s renewables growth forecast is 30% higher than the amount of growth that was forecast just a year ago
Canadian Solar to supply modules for 256 MW North West projects
By: Creamer Media Reporter 6th December 2022 Solar technology group Canadian Solar has announced that its majority-owned subsidiary CSI Solar had signed a 256 MW module contract with SOLA Group, the Cape Town-based independent power producer that is building two utility-scale projects in South Africa on the back of pioneering private power... →
Implats issues RFI for renewable energy to be wheeled to its South African sites
By: Donna Slater 25th November 2022 Platinum group metals miner Impala Platinum (Implats) has issued a request for information (RFI) to buy an unspecified volume of electricity, through wheeling from renewable energy sources, for its South African operations. Implats, whose electricity consumption accounts for 74% of its total... →
EIB’s €200m funding of DBSA to support 1 200 MW private renewables roll-out
By: Terence Creamer 11th November 2022 The European Investment Bank (EIB) has extended a €200-million line of credit to the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) to support the delivery of 1 200 MW of distributed renewables generation by private investors. The financing package, which is the largest-ever extended by the EIB to... →
Investment needed for outgoing coal, incoming renewables, impacted communities, Mapungubwe highlights
By: Martin Creamer 8th November 2022 With South Africa having committed to transition away from coal, investments will not only be required for the retiring of coal plants and the ramping up of renewable energy, but also for coal communities, who will require alternative economic development plans to sustain the livelihoods of all... →
Private sector investments key for JET
By: Halima Frost 28th October 2022 As keynote speaker at the 2022 Joburg Indaba – held at the Inanda Club, in Sandton, on October 5 and 6 – Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter highlighted the mining industry’s decarbonisation drive towards a Just Energy Transition (JET) and how it could be achieved. He noted that,... →
Hydrogen instrumental to decarbonisation
By: Halima Frost 28th October 2022 The need to decarbonise has put pressure on governments globally to move away from fossil fuels and use renewable sources of energy, says mining employers’ organisation Minerals Council South Africa senior economist Bongani Motsa. Through global research it has been established that hydrogen is... →
Renewables implemented at mines show promise
By: Halima Frost 28th October 2022 Mining industry employers’ organisation Minerals Council South Africa says that, by the end of this year, mines in the country will have established the capacity and infrastructure to generate about 100 MW of power from renewable-energy installations. This includes installations by gold mining... →
Schneider Electric advancing Electricity 4.0, Industry 4.0 with solutions
By: Simone Liedtke 18th October 2022 In continuing efforts to digitize its customers, energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric’s connected products can communicate well with each other on its digital platforms, as well as those of third parties, says Schneider Electric global marketing director Quintin... →
Supplier diversifies product offerings to grow in Africa
By: Halima Frost 14th October 2022 Bearings and power transmission distributor Bearings International (BI) South Africa, a member of the Hudaco group, has expanded its offerings to include low voltage motors of electric motor manufacturer ABB for supply to BI’s sub-Saharan Africa clients. “The decision to become an ABB distributor... →
Major OEM commissions new low-voltage motor assembly line in Gauteng
By: Marleny Arnoldi 14th October 2022 Brazilian motor and controls manufacturer WEG’s South African subsidiary Zest WEG has commissioned a new assembly line for low-voltage WEG W22 IE3 and IE4 motors at the company’s corporate premises at Longlake, in Johannesburg. →
Decarbonisation underpins RBM’s move to buy solar electricity from 148 MW project
By: Terence Creamer 6th October 2022 Leading South African mineral sands producer Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with independent power producer Voltalia for the supply of wheeled renewable energy from a 148 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) facility in Limpopo to its smelting and... →
Helping world transition to net-zero carbon is mining's biggest opportunity, says Minerals Council president
By: Martin Creamer 5th October 2022 The biggest opportunity mining has as an industry is to help the world to transition to a net-zero carbon world, Minerals Council South Africa president Nolitha Fakude said on Wednesday. Fakude, who is also chairperson of Anglo American's management board in South Africa, highlighted this during... →
Distributed generation investment may ‘grind to halt’ if Eskom's retail tariff reforms are implemented 'overnight'
By: Terence Creamer 3rd October 2022 Economic and energy advisory company Meridian Economics is warning that the immediate implementation of Eskom’s proposed retail tariff plan could severely disincentivise investment into the large distributed generation plants required to reduce or end load-shedding. The plan, which the utility... →
NUM asks that Eskom board restructuring includes public participation
By: Marleny Arnoldi 28th September 2022 The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has welcomed Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s plan to restructure and reconstitute the board of State-owned power utility Eskom. The Minister announced on September 27 that government would soon start the process of restructuring the board,... →
Miner contributes to achieving net zero economy
23rd September 2022 Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) is embedded into gold miner Harmony Gold’s business strategy to earn credibility, remain competitive and contribute to achieving a net-zero economy, says group executive for sustainability Melanie Naidoo-Vermaak. With the urgency of... →
Minerals Council urges faster inclusion of private electricity suppliers
By: Martin Creamer 19th September 2022 The Minerals Council South Africa supports President Cyril Ramaphosa’s electricity recovery plan and urges more rapid private sector participation in resolving the country’s deepening electricity crisis. Minerals Council members have 6 500 MW of embedded energy projects in the pipeline which will... →
MacLean Engineering advancing fleet electrification in Africa
By: Simone Liedtke 13th September 2022 Mining equipment provider MacLean Engineering intends to build the next 50 years of Maclean mining vehicle innovation on the three pillars of electrification, automation and digitalisation. The company’s current push, explains Africa GM John-Paul Theunissen, is on expanding the MacLean electric... →
Ironveld’s Rustenberg smelter to go offgrid with hybrid power plant
By: Darren Parker 12th September 2022 Project development and engineering teams from energy solutions company Enernet Global have been working closely with iron-ore company Ironveld to develop an optimised hybrid power plant that will deliver clean, reliable and low-cost power for the company’s smelter facility in Rustenburg.... →
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