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            <title>Thungela maintains production guidance on anticipated stronger second half performance</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thermal coal producer and exporter Thungela Resources delivered an improved performance in the first half of this year, despite difficult market conditions and a stronger rand weighing on export benefits, CEO Moses Madondo said on August 17. During a conference call to discuss the company’s interim results of the six months ended June 30, he highlighted a continued focus on maintaining safe operations, driving operational excellence and applying a disciplined approach to capital allocation underpinning this performance.  ]]></description>
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            <title>Mavuso not confident in commitment of Eskom leadership to reforms</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busisiwe Mavuso – who has had an ongoing public disagreement with Eskom’s chairperson Mteto Nyati over the creation, with the transmission assets, of an independent Transmission System Operator (TSO) – says she does not have confidence that the current Eskom leadership is committed to government’s reforms. Writing in her weekly newsletter, Mavuso slammed those who she described as “reform resisters”, taking particular aim at the Eskom board’s current approach to the unbundling of the TSO, as well as the National Union of Mineworkers’ legal challenge to the restructuring.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>Ramaphosa calls for common market in SADC to develop industries</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, with a combined population of nearly 400-million people, have abundant natural resources, a youthful population and the means to produce everything that its people need, says South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. SADC needs to create a dynamic common market in which countries trade. No country in the region can build an integrated power system, develop cross-border corridors, manage shared water resources or withstand the full force of climate change on its own.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Andrada secures funding for Uis mine ore-sorting expansion</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Aim-listed Andrada Mining’s subsidiary, Uis Tin Mining Company (UTMC), has executed definitive agreements for loan facilities totalling N$98-million, or about £4.4-million, with Bank Windhoek and the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN). The loan facilities comprise two equal N$49-million, or about £2.2-million, tranches and Andrada says all conditions precedent governing loan disbursement have been met to the satisfaction of both lenders.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <title>South Africa's Traxtion bets on regional rail reforms and mineral boom</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African rail services provider Traxtion is positioning itself to profit from a regional mineral boom and sweeping reforms across the continent that are opening up freight rail networks to private firms, CEO James Holley said on Friday. Traxtion, one of Africa's largest private freight rail operators, announced a R3.4-billion rolling stock investment programme in December to expand its capacity and support rail reform in a region that exports critical minerals including copper and lithium.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Resolute, Nimba Mining establish JV dedicated to gold exploration in Guinea</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ASX-listed Resolute Mining and Nimba Mining Gold (NMG) – an affiliate of Guinea State-owned mining group Nimba Mining Company (NMC) – have jointly signed the articles of association of Landaya Gold, their joint venture (JV), which will take forward the development of gold projects in Guinea. The articles of association were signed by Patrice L’Huillier, representative of NMG, and by Karl Akueson, VP growth for Resolute Mining. Incorporation of the JV company is being finalised with the relevant authorities.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <title>BMI revises its yearly lithium price forecasts, driven by resilient energy demand</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, has revised its lithium price forecasts for this year to $20 100/t for mainland Chinese lithium carbonate and $19 600/t for mainland Chinese lithium hydroxide monohydrate, reflecting sold upward price momentum sustained throughout the first half of the year. The company notes that while it expects lithium prices to drift lower in the second half of the year, robust energy storage demand is likely to keep prices from dropping much lower and prevent any big market crashes.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <title>Korea Eximbank to lend $1bn to Glencore for copper supply</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Export-Import Bank of Korea will lend $1-billion to commodities giant Glencore in exchange for copper supply to South Korean companies, as the country seeks to secure raw materials needed for the artificial intelligence boom.

The loan will be provided to Switzerland-based Glencore International AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glencore, and the proceeds will be used for general working capital, the State-run Korean lender said in a statement on Monday. The bank said Glencore has agreed to supply copper to Korean companies during the loan period, without providing details.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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