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South Africa should regulate bus, truck emissions – Royal Bafokeng Platinum 
By: Martin Creamer 10th March 2021 What a wonderful housing job Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) has done in building 1 400 impressive family homes for its employees, with another 100 outstanding for occupation. When RBPlat CEO Steve Phiri listed the black-controlled and black-led platinum group metals (PGM) mining company on the... →
Royal Bafokeng Platinum studying feasibility of 30 MW solar power plant
By: Martin Creamer 9th March 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) which on Tuesday reported a record performance accompanied a R1.5-billion maiden dividend payment, is conducting a study into the economic feasibility building of a 30 MW modular photovoltaic (PV) solar energy plant at... →
National strategy seen as key first step for countries keen to tap green-hydrogen potential
By: Terence Creamer 9th March 2021 The publication of a national hydrogen strategy has been identified by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) as the crucial first pillar in an evolving four-pillar policymaking toolbox for countries that are either planning to export or import green hydrogen as part of their... →
Gates-backed startup joins race to make green hydrogen cheaper
By: Bloomberg 9th March 2021 Israeli startup H2Pro joined the race to make cheap green hydrogen after securing investments from funds backed by Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. As governments and industries get serious about cutting greenhouse gas emissions, demand has grown for... →
Mines anywhere, everywhere can go green – Hydrogen Optimized
By: Martin Creamer 8th March 2021 Owing to the ubiquity of the world’s sun and the wind, all mines have the opportunity to generate their own green electricity no matter where they are located in the world, Hydrogen Optimized CEO Andrew T Stuart emphasised during last week’s Fasken online panel discussion on hydrogen. In this... →
Fasken panel that discussed hydrogen.
Southern Africa has ‘huge potential’ to benefit from the shift to green hydrogen
By: Simone Liedtke 4th March 2021 While there is growing momentum across the world in investing in hydrogen and the related import and export value chains, management consulting company Kearney MD Romain Debarre warns that there is still a lack of supply and demand for the hydrogen economy. While there is a market for hydrogen... →
Super-cycling PGMs being shielded from demand-hit repeat of 2000s – Froneman
By: Martin Creamer 2nd March 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) are moving into a super cycle and producers are working with end-users to prevent the metals going through a repeat of the demand-destruction phase that took place in the early 2000s, Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman told the BMO conference on Monday. Speaking on... →
Anglo CEO talks hydrogen, recycling, Scope 3, material solutions provision
By: Martin Creamer 1st March 2021 The surge of the hydrogen economy, the need to recycle, halving Scope 3 emissions through iron-ore-linked green steelmaking, assisting South Africa to create new industries, and becoming a one-stop material solutions provider, were among the issues discussed by Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani in... →
Implats pursuing renewables, green hydrogen, exploration, carbon neutrality
By: Martin Creamer 25th February 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Implats is pursuing green hydrogen, greenfield exploration and carbon neutrality, the company made clear during question time after presenting a stellar set of high-dividend-yielding interim financial results on Thursday, which cut debt by... →
Resources Watch
25th February 2021 This week: London listing on way as mining company strives to become green gold producer; DRDGold flies sky high on numbers never seen before; and, Sibanye assessing on-site green hydrogen generation to power fuel cell mobility →
Qld hydrogen project gets its start
By: Esmarie Iannucci 25th February 2021 The Queensland government’s A$1.7-million into the Hydrogen Park Gladstone project has reached its first major milestone, with the procurement of the plant’s 175 kW electrolyser, several months ahead of schedule. Minister for Energy, Renewables and Hydrogen Mick de Brenni said the project would... →
Pure/Strata X merger gets new name
By: Esmarie Iannucci 25th February 2021 The merged entity between ASX-listed Real Energy Corporation and its joint venture partner Strata X will be known as Pure Hydrogen Corporation, and will trade on the ASX under the code PH2. Real Energy and Strata X in July of last year agreed to a merger under which Real Energy shareholders would... →
Hydrogen in the NT gets a boost
By: Esmarie Iannucci 24th February 2021 A renewable hydrogen trial is set to launch in Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory, between joint venture (JV) partners Axcentium and Ahurei. The JV partners will be trailing a new technology, called Aqua Aerem, to capture water from the atmosphere in arid environments in an off-grid... →
TIPS research confirms business case for developing hydrogen economy
By: Marleny Arnoldi 23rd February 2021 Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies says South Africa is well placed to build a new and sustainable export commodity – green hydrogen. TIPS believes the country can become a key supplier into the rapidly growing international hydrogen market, as the world faces growing pressure to move to... →
Green hydrogen to be produced from solar power at platinum mine
By: Martin Creamer 22nd February 2021 Although platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Anglo American Platinum will be starting with a 75 MW solar photovoltaic powered plant at its Mogalakwena mine, planned is an eventual 320 MW of solar power generation, the excess from which will be used to produce green hydrogen.... →
Sasol upscales renewables roll-out ambition to 900 MW, starts plotting big green-hydrogen role
By: Terence Creamer 22nd February 2021 JSE-listed Sasol announced on Monday that it would pursue a 900 MW renewable-energy roll-out at its Secunda and Sasolburg complexes by 2030, raising its initial deployment target of 600 MW by 50%. President and CEO Fleetwood Grobler said that the upscaled plan would be pursued in partnership with... →
Global decarbonisation rapidly upping demand for Anglo Platinum products
By: Martin Creamer 22nd February 2021 Platinum group metals mining and marketing company Anglo American Platinum said on Monday that it was poised to deliver next phase of value for its stakeholders as decarbonisation efforts increase the long-term demand for its metals. “We are grounded in our purpose to re-imagine mining to improve... →
Sibanye assessing on-site green hydrogen generation to power fuel cell mobility
By: Martin Creamer 18th February 2021 Platinum group metals (PGM) producer Sibanye-Stillwater is assessing the generation of green hydrogen on its mine sites to power PGM-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell mobility, it said on Thursday, when the Johannesburg- and New York-listed company foresaw good exposure for itself to the hydrogen... →
Province inches into hydrogen
By: Esmarie Iannucci 17th February 2021 Junior explorer Province Resources has struck an agreement to potentially acquire seven exploration licenses in Western Australia that are prospective for salt, potash and mineral sands, and could be suitable for the development of a renewable green hydrogen project. Under the proposed... →
PGMs-linked hydrogen production on way with local electrolysers, 12J funding
By: Martin Creamer 15th February 2021 South African company Hydrox Holdings of Randburg is developing an advanced alkaline electrolyser to supply what it describes as “huge hydrogen demand”. The zero gap system will be the first locally produced electrolyser for South Africa and Africa, Hydrox states in a media release to Mining Weekly. →
Hydrox Holdings CEO Corrie de Jager
Canadian firm launches pioneering hydrogen advisory team
12th February 2021 Canadian law firm Fasken has launched a new Hydrogen Energy Advisory Team (H2EAT), a pioneering initiative to help clients navigate the global transition to a clean hydrogen economy. →
Sod turned at Qld hydrogen center
By: Esmarie Iannucci 11th February 2021 The first sod has been turned at Queensland’s A$20-million Hydrogen Training Centre of Excellence at Beenleigh. Treasurer Cameron Dick said the new facility was a key part of the government’s plan to fast track the development of the industry and ensure Queensland is at the forefront as the... →
WPIC says there is a ‘growing market’ for platinum in hydrogen adoption
By: Simone Liedtke 10th February 2021 It is estimated that green hydrogen could supply up to 25% of the world’s energy needs and become a $10-trillion addressable market, says the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). This is underpinned by the recent emergence of strong green hydrogen-focused national hydrogen strategies,... →
Vision Blue helping world to achieve green dream with high-return prospects for investors
By: Martin Creamer 10th February 2021 The world’s energy transition away from fossil fuels is a phenomenon that is not dependent on any assumptions about gross domestic product (GDP) growth or countries urbanising or industrialising. It is a phenomenon driven by international consensus that the carbon footprint of the world has to be... →
Green hydrogen and powerfuels could revive ailing PetroSA, unlock green steel and create €160bn export platform
By: Terence Creamer 9th February 2021 The combination of South Africa’s world-class wind, solar and land resources, its platinum group metals reserves, as well as its historical experience in industrial-scale synthetic-fuel manufacture, position the country strongly for the production of green hydrogen and tradeable synthetic... →
Platinum group metals outlook: constrained supply, very strong demand growth – WPIC
By: Martin Creamer 8th February 2021 The outlook for platinum group metals (PGMs) is one of constrained supply and very strong demand growth. “You’ve got the entire PGMs suite that is short and that certainly will translate into tight markets,” World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) Director of Research Trevor Raymond told Mining... →
Victorian hydrogen hub a step closer
By: Esmarie Iannucci 8th February 2021 The Pure Hydrogen International joint venture (JV) has inked a term sheet with private hydrogen project development company Port Anthony Renewables to build and develop a large-scale hydrogen production facility at Port Anthony, in Victoria. The JV is targeting an initial production of 20 t/d,... →
Hydrogen plant to power truck
By: Theresa Bhowan-Rajah 5th February 2021 Energy transition leader ENGIE has contracted Pretoria-based engineering firm Thermtron Scientific to provide balance of plant services for the on-site hydrogen plant of the Mogalakwena mine, in Limpopo, on an engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning basis. Initial talks between... →
De Ruyter backs call for lifting of licensing cap on distributed generators to 50 MW 
By: Terence Creamer 2nd February 2021 Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter says the State-owned utility is fully supportive of moves by large customers to develop distributed generation plants to power their operations, as well as growing calls to lift the licensing threshold from 1 MW to 50 MW so as to accelerate these investments. South... →
Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter
Energy multinational outlines South Africa’s $100bn green hydrogen export opportunity
By: Terence Creamer 2nd February 2021 French energy multinational Engie says that South Africa is ideally positioned, by virtue of its solar and wind endowments, to emerge as a global leader in the production of green hydrogen and derivative carbon-neutral fuels and chemicals, which could generate domestic and export revenues worth... →
Qld and Japan partner on hydrogen
By: Esmarie Iannucci 2nd February 2021 The Queensland government, through government-owned CS Energy, has struck a partnership agreement with Japan’s IHI Corporation to pursue a green hydrogen initiative. The two companies will assess the feasibility of establishing a renewable hydrogen demonstration plant next to CS Energy’s Kogan... →
Hydrogen economy top of mind for Minerals Council
By: Darren Parker 29th January 2021 Mining industry body Minerals Council South Africa believes that the country’s hydrogen economy presents significant opportunities, specifically from an environmental, economic and investment, as well as a research and development, perspective. The Minerals Council hopes that this will be... →
TEBELLO CHABANA The Minerals Council is engaged in a roadmap process, led by government and industry, to develop South Africa’s hydrogen economy
De Beers adopts strategy to meet carbon-neutral ambition
By: Martin Creamer 29th January 2021 The De Beers Group is on its way to becoming a miner and marketer of carbon-neutral diamonds. The world’s largest producer of diamonds by value is setting out to achieve – by 2030 – carbon neutrality at its mines in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa, as well as in its other operations... →
Third consecutive year of coal export decline from Richards Bay Coal Terminal
By: Martin Creamer 27th January 2021 Coal exports from South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) last year declined for the third consecutive year, with the 70.2-million tons exported to mainly Asia and single-digit percentages to Africa and Europe, taking exports back to what they were in 2013. In 2020, two-million fewer... →
Hamburg plans green hydrogen plant with Shell, Mitsubishi, Vattenfall
By: Reuters 22nd January 2021 Hamburg is planning to generate green hydrogen, which is produced from renewable power, at a plant it will develop with energy firms Shell, Mitsubishi and Vattenfall, the city state said on Friday. Hamburg's municipal heating company has signed a letter of intent with the three companies to... →
PGMs, new Gold Fields CEO designate make headlines
22nd January 2021 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks Switzerland's green hydrogen roll-out, PGM demand and Chris Griffith becoming Gold Fields CEO designate. →
Platinum group metals demand set to overwhelm supply balance – Davis
By: Martin Creamer 21st January 2021 Long-serving precious metals consultant Dr David Davis has reached the conclusion, after a comprehensive study, that the demand for platinum group metals (PGMs) is poised to outstrip stagnant supply. Davis, who has spent several months carrying out a ‘deep dive’ into the future of PGMs for... →
Pure Hydrogen hubs planned across Australia
By: Esmarie Iannucci 20th January 2021 The hydrogen division of ASX-listed Real Energy Corporation, Pure Hydrogen Corporation, has signed a binding term sheet with privately held hydrogen project development company Liberty Hydrogen to establish a joint venture (JV) in the US. The JV, known as Pure Hydrogen International, would... →
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