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            <title>Climate action and growth need to reinforce each other, Minerals Council event hears</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Climate considerations are increasingly shaping how business is done, Minerals Council South Africa senior climate specialist Shalendra Subramoney said on Friday, October 30, in launching the council’s inaugural Climate Change Day of Learning, attended by public and private sector climate mitigation representatives. “Mining is central to both South Africa’s development and the global climate transition. We need to reduce emissions and strengthen resilience while attracting the investment needed to grow a competitive mining sector, sustain and create jobs, support communities, and bolster South Africa’s economic development. Climate ambition and economic growth must reinforce each other,” Minerals Council senior executive: environment, health, legacies and employment relations Shamini Harrington stated in the keynote address.]]></description>
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            <title>SAWEM trading platform opens to 85 external entities for pre-launch testing</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ahead of the scheduled launch of the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM) in April 2027, the trading platform is being opened to external participants in addition to Eskom Generation and Eskom Distribution, which have been participating on the platform since April this year. The Presidency’s Saul Musker reports that invitations have been issued to 85 external entities to participate in the pre-launch simulation and testing phase, while various regulatory and institutional mechanisms are finalised in parallel.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Industry leaders have combined forces to assert their commitment to hydrogen mobility solutions for heavy-duty transport in Europe, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) reports. This outcome points to shared conviction that hydrogen is an important complement to battery electric vehicles in achieving the European Union’s decarbonisation targets.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
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            <title>Sylvania reports record quarterly PGM output, improved chrome production</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Aim-listed Sylvania Platinum’s Sylvania Dump Operations (SDO) and Thaba Joint Venture (JV) delivered combined record production of 25 971 oz of platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold (4E) platinum group metals (PGMs) in the first quarter of the company’s 2027 financial year. At the Thaba JV, ongoing mining performance and run-of-mine (RoM) feed quality issues were offset by the sourcing of third-party ore alongside improved plant stability, increased run times and higher processing throughput resulting in a significantly improved quarterly chrome production, increasing by 67%, to 29 799 t for the quarter ended September 30.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[ASX-listed Jupiter Mines has reported that the Tshipi manganese mine, in South Africa, achieved a solid first quarter of its 2027 financial year with production, logistics and sales volumes ahead of plan. In its activities report for the quarter ended September 30, Jupiter notes that production and sales for Tshipi were 823 800 t and 848 566 t, respectively.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Australia- and Johannesburg-listed MC Mining’s Makhado steelmaking hard coking coal (HCC) project, in Limpopo, transitioned from construction into hot commissioning and operational ramp-up during the quarter ended September 30. The company explains that the C3 commissioning of the coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP) was completed on May 22.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Transport’s efforts to open the freight rail network to private operators is gaining momentum, but restoring capacity, securing investments and translating policy changes into reliable services remain critical to unlocking the rail sector’s economic potential. South Africa’s rail recovery also presents a fundamental challenge in that government urgently needs to restore a logistics system which has recently suffered from severe bottlenecks, while ensuring that the reforms intended to achieve this create a commercially sustainable and competitive freight market.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[JSE- and ASX-listed metals explorer and developer Orion Minerals has announced the appointment of Thomas Borman as the company’s incoming nonexecutive chairperson. Borman will be appointed as director and chairperson by the Orion Minerals board following the conclusion of the company’s AGM on November 26. He will hold office as director until the 2027 AGM, when he will stand for re-election.]]></description>
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