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Platinum has potential to be three-times-bigger $35bn-a-year industry – Minerals Council 
By: Martin Creamer 9th September 2020 Instead of being the $11-billion-a -year type industry that it is today, the platinum business has the potential to be a $35-billion-a-year industry by 2050, Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter said on Wednesday. Baxter made this statement in response to a question put to him during a... →
Promoting hydrogen economy should be No1 priority – RBPlat’s Phiri
By: Martin Creamer 9th September 2020 Promoting the hydrogen economy should be South Africa’s number one priority, Royal Bafokeng Platinum CEO Steve Phiri said on Wednesday. Speaking during a panel discussion on the current state of the platinum group metals industry at the virtual 2020 PGMs Industry Day, Phiri said that this... →
Steve Phiri, Andries Rossouw (from left top) and Natascha Viljoen, Nico Muller (from left bottom)
Prize potentially large in platinum fuel cell and hydrogen growth – prof
By: Martin Creamer 8th September 2020 Significant growth in fuel cells and hydrogen is now almost certain and the prize for South Africa remains potentially large. That is the view of E4tech director Professor Dr David Hart of Switzerland, expressed in an address to a fuel cell webinar hosted by Nedbank CIB on Tuesday. (Also watch... →
Possible special dividend on high-flying rhodium, palladium prices – Sylvania
By: Martin Creamer 7th September 2020 High-flying rhodium and palladium prices are giving rise to a possible special dividend being paid to the shareholders of cash-flush Sylvania Platinum, the London Aim-quoted company that recovers platinum group metals from chrome tailings. The board of the company, which benefits from sizeable... →
Court finds in favour of PolyMet’s permit
By: Creamer Media Reporter 7th September 2020 A Ramsey county District Court judge has found that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) did not engage in any procedural irregularities in connection with the processing of the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit for the NorthMet copper/nickel/precious metals... →
Sasol seeks carbon-utilisation solutions for South African operations
By: Terence Creamer 4th September 2020 Energy and chemicals group Sasol has initiated a process through which it aims to identify potential partners for the development and demonstration of technologies that can utilise the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced at its South African operations as part of a broader strategy to lower its... →
Lagging platinum being actively promoted – Implats
By: Martin Creamer 3rd September 2020 Demand for platinum, the price laggard of the high-flying platinum group metals basket, is being actively promoted on several fronts, Implats reported on Thursday. Following the company’s presentation of stellar cash-generating and dividend-yielding financial results, which featured a gross... →
Brazil Senate passes bill to limit, fine upstream mining dams
By: Reuters 3rd September 2020 Brazil's Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that tightens the safety rules and inspection for dams in the mining industry, setting fines of up to one-billion reais ($187-million) for failure to comply. The legislation reinforces the prohibition of the use of upstream dams for tailings ponds, like... →
Bushveld advances electrolyte, solar, mini-grid projects
By: Martin Creamer 2nd September 2020 London-listed integrated primary vanadium producer and energy storage provider, Bushveld Minerals, the owner of assets in South Africa, on Wednesday reported progress with the group’s electrolyte plant, solar and mini-grid power project. Bushveld Energy intends devising self-generation options... →
Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo
South Africa’s green revolution gathering momentum
2nd September 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has presented countries around the world with immense challenges, as the impact of the virus has affected every aspect of everyday life as we know it, write Dr Cosmas Chiteme, Dr Rebecca Maserumule and Prof Dmitri Bessarabov. (Chiteme and Maserumule are senior managers at... →
Joburg’s political legacy mine dumps should come down to cut commute time – DRDGold
By: Martin Creamer 1st September 2020 South Africa Inc should be doing much more to incentivise the recovery of precious metals from tailings dams for sound societal and environmental reasons that could free Johannesburg of its artificial ‘Berlin Wall’-type political legacy barriers that tilt commute times unfairly and block new-era... →
Analysts raise precious metals expansion opportunities for cash-flush Sibanye
By: Martin Creamer 30th August 2020 Mining analysts last week raised local platinum and gold expansion opportunities for cash-flush precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater, but Neal Froneman, the CEO of the superbly performing Johannesburg- and New York-listed company, expressed concern that South Africa’s current... →
Rhodium may turn out to be the metal of the decade – Northam
By: Martin Creamer 28th August 2020 Rhodium may turn out to be the metal of the decade, Northam CEO Paul Dunne said on Friday. Speaking at the JSE-listed company’s presentation of outstanding results, which saw the company shrug off the Covid-19 pandemic to report a record financial year in the 12 months to June 30, Dunne said... →
Company to provide energy storage for local mines
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 The local mining sector is becoming more open to implementing new technologies in terms of energy solutions, as they can make mining operations more efficient, productive and cost effective, states microgrid and energy solutions provider Hitachi ABB Power Grids MD Malvin Naicker. Hitachi ABB... →
Higher energy efficiency can save costs for miners
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 Local energy organisation the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) GM Barry Bredenkamp states that South Africa’s mining sector can continue to explore cost-saving measures through increased energy efficiency. Local miners face many challenges, including rising energy... →
Logistics company branches out
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 Local logistics services supplier Mixcorp is including renewable-energy technology suited to the mining industry in the scope of its research and development (R&D) department to add renewables-related logistical services to its offering. Mixcorp special scientific adviser Dr Godfrey Gandawa... →
Mining waste can boost alternative-fuels prospects
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 Certain wastes in the mining sector present an opportunity to create alternative fuels, which can alleviate the energy supply challenges in the local industry, says waste management solutions provider Interwaste. Repurposing waste for energy purposes can also reduce the reliance on landfills and... →
Camden power station resumes operations
By: Creamer Media Reporter 27th August 2020 Operations at the Camden power station resumed on August 27 after a four-month shutdown. The shutdown was implemented to relocate ash from an unsafe dam at the station. →
Accountability, good governance, participation key to rehabilitate sites for a ‘life after mining’
By: Simone Liedtke 26th August 2020 Across South Africa, and globally, affected locations should have the opportunity to have a “life after mining”, but Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation Research Chair Mineral Law in Africa postdoctoral research fellow Bernard Kengi laments that mine waste often... →
High-flying DRDGold expecting nigh sevenfold earnings rocket
By: Martin Creamer 26th August 2020 Surface gold mining company DRDGold is expecting half-year earnings per share to rocket nearly sevenfold. In a trading statement released on Wednesday, the company, headed by CEO Niël Pretorius, indicated earnings per share of 82.5 c for the financial year to June 30, compared with 11.8 c for the... →
Master Drilling aligning with opencast mines going underground in changing world
By: Martin Creamer 26th August 2020 South Africa-based drilling company Master Drilling, which is active in 23 countries, is aligning itself with the transitioning global requirement of opencast mines going underground. “As the world is changing, so are the mines,” said Master Drilling technology director Koos Jordaan at the... →
Northern Dynasty stock tumbles further as doubts grow over Alaska's Pebble mine
By: Reuters 26th August 2020 Northern Dynasty Minerals shares fell more than 25% on Tuesday on rising doubts the company can clear regulatory hurdles for its Pebble mine project in Alaska, and prominent politicians said it would harm the state's salmon fishing industry. The US Army Corps of Engineers on Monday gave Northern... →
Third of labour force let go – Master Drilling
By: Martin Creamer 25th August 2020 The Covid-19 crisis resulted in drilling company Master Drilling having to let go a third of its labour force in the world, Master Drilling CEO Danie Pretorius said on Tuesday. Fochville-based Master Drilling provides drilling services to the mining, civil engineering and building construction... →
Glencore part of giant leap to transform informal cobalt mining
By: Martin Creamer 24th August 2020 Eight concerns, including diversified mining and marketing company Glencore, have joined forces to transform the informal mining of cobalt for the better. Full implementation would take five years and would begin in mines in Kasulu and Kamilombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the... →
Underground gold mines produce less emissions than openpit operations − S&P Market Intelligence
By: Donna Slater 21st August 2020 Last year, gold mines produced nearly 1 t of carbon dioxide (CO2) for every ounce of gold produced, says business intelligence company Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Market Intelligence research. To gather insight into greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions in the gold mining industry, the firm reviewed... →
Water treatment technology available but costly
By: Darren Parker 21st August 2020 Although the technology to treat and purify mine water to acceptable standards already exists, the main challenge for the mining industry and society is affordability, says water and environmental consulting firm GCS regional director and senior hydrogeologist Pieter Labuschagne. Currently, the... →
Industry welcomes new water management tool
By: Darren Parker 21st August 2020 The uptake of a tool to assist the mining sector in implementing the principles of water conservation and water demand management (WC/WDM), has been “overwhelmingly positive”, Minerals Council South Africa head of environment Stephinah Mudau tells Mining Weekly. The WC/WDM self-assessment... →
ACCURATE SELF-ASSESSMENT The new tool assesses water requirements and the level of water reuse and recycling required, thereby reducing treatment costs
New sewage treatment plants planned
By: Darren Parker 21st August 2020 Following the successful commissioning of a sewage treatment plant for coal mining company Canyon Coal’s Khanye colliery, in Gauteng, in early 2019, plans are under way to build similar plants at the company’s planned De Wittekrans and Palmietkuilen collieries. In a statement issued by the... →
Kropz to present Elandsfontein water-use licence case
By: Donna Slater 20th August 2020 The Water Tribunal has given Aim-listed phosphate explorer and developer Kropz three days, starting on September 3, to present its case in an appeal against the integrated water-use licence (WUL) for its Elandsfontein mine on South Africa's West Coast. The miner’s Elandsfontein WUL came into... →
Alaska Republican Party backs Pebble mine
By: Mariaan Webb 20th August 2020 The Alaska Republic Party has thrown its weight behind the proposed Pebble copper/gold mine, arguing that responsible development of the mine will be a significant economic boost for the state. In a resolution dated August 9, the party urges Alaska leaders and the US Army Corp of Engineers... →
K+S Windsor Salt fined for illegal disposals
By: Creamer Media Reporter 20th August 2020 Salt miner Seleine Mines – a division of K+S Windsor Salt – has been fined C$400 000 for violating environmental laws in 2014. Environment and Climate Change Canada says Seleine Mines had disposed of dredged material on four occasions in 2014, outside of the disposal area authorised by its... →
More to zinc than what is commonly known
By: Mamaili Mamaila 14th August 2020 Baby bum cream, fertiliser and roof tiles all have one thing in common: the lesser-known, but incredibly pervasive mineral zinc. →
South Africans must work together on an accelerated economic recovery plan – Exxaro
By: Martin Creamer 13th August 2020 South Africans must work together on an accelerated economic recovery plan that focuses on inclusive growth and prosperity for all citizens, Exxaro Resources CEO Mxolisi Mgojo said on Thursday. Speaking during the black-empowered resources company’s presentation of very strong dividend-yielding... →
Awesome new proudly South African face mask kindling international interest 
By: Martin Creamer 13th August 2020 An awesome new proudly South African face mask, with a replaceable filtration system at its heart, is attracting international interest. The innovative and timely Hudaco Air Mask is a lockdown-period product of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Hudaco Industries group. (Also watch attached... →
Exxaro pays dividend on 40%-higher half-year earnings
By: Martin Creamer 13th August 2020 Black-empowered diversified resources group Exxaro Resources on Thursday declared an interim dividend on posting a 40% increase in earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortisation of R3.9-billion for the six months to June 30. In the face of global trade tensions, a challenging local... →
Exxaro CEO Mxolisi Mgojo
Investors call for greater Rio accountability over destroyed ancient caves
By: Reuters 11th August 2020 British and Australian investment funds said on Monday that Rio Tinto's testimony last week over its destruction of ancient caves in Australia raised questions about the accountability of its senior leadership. Rio CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques was grilled by an Australian Senate panel on Friday... →
Uncertain when Milnerton oil refinery will come back on stream
By: Martin Creamer 11th August 2020 Astron Energy’s oil refinery in Cape Town, where a fire broke out last month killing two people and injuring seven others, remains closed while a full investigation into the incident is carried out. The former Chevron 100 000 bbl/d Milnerton refinery – which with the Caltex brand now fall under... →
Cape Town refinery.
WA welcomes federal enviro agreements
By: Esmarie Iannucci 10th August 2020 The Western Australian government has welcomed confirmation of the federal government’s intent to enter into a landmark agreement with the state government to provide a single avenue for environmental assessments and approvals. The agreement is expected to result in the removal of duplication... →
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