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Mineral exploration should be incentivised, says IDC’s Thabiso Sekano 
By: Martin Creamer 12th November 2021 Mineral exploration should be incentivised so that South Africa’s great mineral endowment can be optimally leveraged to lower unemployment, improve export revenues, and strengthen this country’s gross domestic product (GDP). That is the view of Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) mining,... →
South Africa mining production down 3.4% y/y in Sept
By: Simone Liedtke 11th November 2021 South Africa’s mining production decreased by 3.4% year-on-year in September, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on November 11. The largest negative contributors were coal, platinum-group metals (PGMs) and gold. →
US adds nickel, zinc to draft critical minerals list, drops potash
By: Mariaan Webb 11th November 2021 The US Geological Survey (USGS) has added nickel and zinc to its proposed list of 50 ‘critical minerals’ – defined as those essential to economic or national security and have a supply chain vulnerable to disruption – while four others, including potash, have fallen off the draft 2021 list. The... →
Minerals Council backs Eskom leadership, urges govt to cut procurement red tape
By: Martin Creamer 10th November 2021 Minerals Council South Africa on Wednesday supported the Eskom leadership team in its efforts to stabilise South Africa’s electricity supply and urged government to focus on shortening the bureaucratic processes hindering Eskom’s ability to procure urgently required spares for power stations and... →
Gold major Newmont spending $500m on renewables, world congress hears
By: Martin Creamer 10th November 2021 Gold mining major Newmont is spending $500-million on renewable energy projects against the backdrop of climate risk equating to investment risk for all mining industry participants, the Energy and Mines Virtual World Congress heard on Tuesday. Expenditure of the half-a-billion dollars began last... →
Green hydrogen market presents huge opportunity for Africa – Mantashe 
By: Martin Creamer 9th November 2021 The green hydrogen market presents a huge opportunity for Africa to position itself as a global competitor in future green energy markets, Minerals Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has told the Africa Energy Week. Countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe, the Minister said,... →
Bafokeng clinch green business boost as part of Northam platinum deal
By: Martin Creamer 9th November 2021 Royal Bafokeng Holdings has accepted an unsolicited offer from Northam Platinum for up to a third of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) in a R17-billion transaction that opens the way for the community to accelerate into the fast-growing green energy economy with Northam’s help. Royal Bafokeng... →
Royal Bafokeng Holdings CEO Albertinah Kekana (left) and Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne.
Modern mining infrastructure, innovations to address junior mining, exploration challenges
By: Schalk Burger 5th November 2021 Innovation and technology development to promote and reinvigorate the country’s moribund exploration, emerging and junior mining sector are focused on developing shared infrastructure and innovations to reduce costs and make exploration more effective and efficient. Research, development and... →
Platinum group metals playing key role in Proudly South African hydrogen breakthrough
By: Martin Creamer 5th November 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs), which are hosted overwhelmingly in South Africa, have played a key role in rocketing the performance of local alkaline electrolysers, in which PGMs are not generally used. Hydrox Holdings of Randburg, which has been pursuing hydrogen solutions for more than two... →
Zimplats posts slight decline in quarterly output
By: Marleny Arnoldi 5th November 2021 ASX-listed Zimplats has reported a 6% quarter-on-quarter decrease in the production of platinum, palladium, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium and gold (6E) platinum group metals (PGMs) to 143 061 oz for the three months ended September 30. The PGMs miner also reported a 4% higher quarter-on-quarter... →
Mining modernisation to benefit junior miners, exploration in South Africa
By: Schalk Burger 4th November 2021 The development and applications of technologies and techniques in mining to make it safer, more productive and more efficient are benefiting junior miners and adding tools and capabilities to stimulate minerals exploration in South Africa, mining and technology experts said on November 4. During... →
Top-performing South African fund rides bet on energy stocks
By: Bloomberg 4th November 2021 South Africa’s top-performing equity fund has reaped the benefit of a wager that battered stocks, particularly in the energy sector, would flourish as economies rebounded from the worst of the pandemic. Blue Quadrant Capital Management’s Worldwide Flexible Prescient Fund has returned 125% this... →
South African Duncan Wanblad to succeed Mark Cutifani as Anglo CE
By: Martin Creamer 3rd November 2021 Diversified mining company Anglo American on Wednesday announced the appointment of Duncan Wanblad as chief executive with effect from the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) on April 19 next year – and has also spelt out details of Wanblad’s upcoming remuneration package in considerable... →
Pallinghurst now has all key battery, hydrogen fuel cell elements
By: Martin Creamer 3rd November 2021 The Pallinghurst Group now has within its fold all the key elements needed for lithium-ion batteries, fuel-cells and green hydrogen economy. Pallinghurst’s latest transaction with Talon Metals brings in nickel, copper and cobalt, which augment the already-in-the-bag graphite, battery-grade... →
Anglo to transition to green hydrogen mine fleet over decade – Cutifani
By: Martin Creamer 2nd November 2021 Diversified mining company Anglo American, which is piloting the world’s biggest green hydrogen-powered haulage vehicle, is planning to replace its global truck fleet of 400 diesel trucks with hydrogen trucks over a ten-year period from about 2024. Introducing hydrogen mobility on its mines will... →
Anglo can uplift livelihoods of many thousands, sustainability attendees hear
By: Martin Creamer 2nd November 2021 Diversified mining company Anglo American can uplift the livelihoods of many thousands of people living around its communities in South Africa and support many jobs through its sustainability projects, attendees of Anglo’s second 2021 sustainability update were told. The London- and... →
Anglo American responsible business partnerships head Jon Samuel
Anglo to use underground mine water to generate electricity
By: Martin Creamer 2nd November 2021 Diversified mining company Anglo American is planning to use water in its underground mines as batteries. The water will be pumped up when operations have excess renewable power and allowed to run back down when electricity is needed. →
From top left clockwise are Mark Cutifani, Jon Samuel, Stephen Pearce and Zahira Quatrocchi.
Anglo American sets ambition to halve Scope 3 emissions by 2040
By: Martin Creamer 29th October 2021 Diversified mining company Anglo American on Friday published its Climate Change Report 2021, ahead of its six-monthly sustainability performance update. The update includes Anglo’s progress towards its target of carbon neutral operations (Scopes 1 & 2) by 2040 and its ambition to reduce its... →
Anglo American CE Mark Cutifani
Implats’ 6E production volumes down 6% in the first quarter
By: Simone Liedtke 29th October 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum (6E) concentrate production decreased by 6% year-on-year to 809 000 oz for the quarter ended September 30 – the first quarter of its 2022 financial year. Managed volumes... →
Hydrogen turning Europe into climate neutral economy, energy leaders highlight
By: Martin Creamer 28th October 2021 Hydrogen has an essential role to play to meet the climate change imperative of carbon neutrality, a World Hydrogen Leaders panel highlighted week. German, French, British, Norwegian and Swiss energy representatives taking part in the World Hydrogen Leaders discussion on the regulatory landscape... →
Zimbabwe miners losing 20% of export proceeds to exchange rate distortions – report
By: Reuters 27th October 2021 Zimbabwe's miners are losing 20% of their export proceeds due to a widening gap between the official and black market currency exchange rate, an industry report showed on Wednesday. The Zimbabwe dollar is trading at 93 to the dollar on the official market, but is quoted as low as 180 against the... →
Sibanye-Stillwater well positioned as climate resilient business – Froneman
By: Martin Creamer 27th October 2021 Precious and green metals company Sibanye-Stillwater is well positioned as a climate-change resilient business in the future green economy, says CEO Neal Froneman, who emphasises environmental social governance (ESG) as being core to the company’s strategy as it achieves its objective of building... →
Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman
RBPlat's shares rise on buyout offer from Implats
By: Chanel de Bruyn 27th October 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Royal Bafokeng Platinum's (RBPlat's) share price on the JSE rose by more than 23% on Wednesday morning after shareholders were informed that fellow PGMs miner Impala Platinum (Implats) had made a nonbinding indicative proposal to acquire RBPlat. RBPlat and... →
Platinum's atypical alkaline electrolyser role lowering hydrogen cost outlook
By: Martin Creamer 26th October 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) are lifting the performance of an alkaline electrolyser, which is helping to lower the cost outlook of green hydrogen. PGMs have been incorporated in the catalytic coatings of the electrodes of the prototype Advanced Alkaline Electrolyser (AAE) alkaline electrolyser... →
Hydrox’s PGM-using alkaline electrolyser.
Canada’s First Nations see green hydrogen as an indigenous reconciliation opportunity
By: Martin Creamer 25th October 2021 Hydrogen systems are not only going to be green, clean and low emission but they are also going to be local – and Canada’s First Nations see them as an indigenous reconciliation opportunity. “They’re going to be local energy systems,” Change Energy principal Rymal Smith said in response to Fasken... →
Bimaadzwin CEO Isadore Day
Mine operators need to take hydrogen very seriously, law firm webinar hears
By: Martin Creamer 22nd October 2021 Mine operators need to take hydrogen and fuel cells very seriously as a pathway to decarbonisation, a webinar hosted by law firm Fasken heard this week. “There’s no pathway to zero carbon that does not include hydrogen and fuel cells,” H2GO Canada CEO Bob Oliver stated emphatically in response to... →
From to left, clockwise, Dan Brock, Isadore Day, Al Davidson, Rymal Smith and Bob Oliver.
No zero carbon without green hydrogen, US pledging $1/kg coal-parity price
By: Martin Creamer 21st October 2021 The world will be unable to meet its zero-carbon targets without the introduction of green hydrogen solutions, says Plug Power chief strategy officer Sanjay Shrestha, at a time when the US has launched a programme to cut the cost of clean hydrogen by 80%. Nasdaq-listed Plug Power, a pure play... →
Plug Power chief strategy officer Sanjay Shrestha
Diamonds, iron-ore drive 2% rise in Anglo American's third-quarter output
By: Simone Liedtke 21st October 2021 Diversified miner Anglo American achieved a 2% increase in production for the third quarter, ended September 30, which CEO Mark Cutifani largely attributed to planned higher rough diamond production at its De Beers subsidiary, as well as increased production from the Minas-Rio iron-ore project,... →
Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani
Amplats reports 'strong' Q3 performance, remains on track to meet FY guidance
By: Chanel de Bruyn 21st October 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) remains on track to meet its full-year production and sales targets after a strong third-quarter performance. Metal-in-concentrate PGM production was 1.12-million ounces, in line with production in the third quarter of 2020,... →
Policy-not-law charter judgment going long way towards providing certainty – NSDV
By: Martin Creamer 19th October 2021 The court judgement that the mining charter is policy and not law goes a long way towards providing regulatory certainty, says NSDV mining law senior associate Muhammed Khan – but it is not the end of the road, he cautions in a 1 500-word analysis entitled The Great Mining Charter Debate. Khan... →
Incentive needed for smaller end of stock exchange to survive – Miller
By: Martin Creamer 18th October 2021 An incentive is needed for the listing of companies on the smaller end of the stock exchange, which is facing an existential crisis, said AmaranthCX director and owner Paul Miller on Monday. Reacting to the groundswell of headlines about delistings and lack of listings on the Johannesburg Stock... →
Hydrogen fuel cell has inexhaustible future, says Fortescue’s Andrew Forrest
By: Martin Creamer 15th October 2021 The hydrogen fuel cell has an inexhaustible future as a means of maintaining the planet’s high standard of living, said Fortescue Metals Group chairperson Andrew Forrest during a global online symposium this week. “Our little planet’s cooking, the world’s impatient and there’s any amount of... →
Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh (left) and Fortescue Metals Group chairperson Andrew Forrest (right)
Market recognising higher likelihood of platinum deficit than surplus in years ahead – WPIC
By: Martin Creamer 14th October 2021 Right now, the market is recognising the higher likelihood of platinum being in deficit rather than in surplus in the mid-term years ahead, said World Platinum Investment Council research director Trevor Raymond on Thursday. Raymond expects pent-up up consumer demand for vehicles to reduce any... →
Tharisa achieves record quarterly output
By: Creamer Media Reporter 12th October 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome concentrate producer Tharisa reports that its Tharisa mine, in the North West, achieved its highest production ever during the quarter ended September 30. Platinum group metals output for the quarter increased to 43 700 oz of platinum, palladium, rhodium,... →
Mining boom papering over serious structural issues – Nedbank's Mpofu
By: Martin Creamer 11th October 2021 South Africa’s current mining boom is papering over some very serious structural issues that underlie the mining industry as a whole. “Chief amongst those is the slowdown if not disappearance of investment in future capacity, a trend we’ve been seeing for the past ten years,” said Nedbank mining... →
Exploration key to keeping South Africa on right side of future – investors
By: Martin Creamer 11th October 2021 Exploration is key to keeping South Africa on the right side of the future-facing metals scenario, the Joburg Indaba heard last week from potential investors. During a panel discussion on mining sector prospects covered by Mining Weekly, the heads of international investment companies commented... →
Form top left clockwise are Fiona Perrott-Humphrey, Olivia Markham, Brett Beatty, Bernard Swanepoel and Mick McMullen.
PlatAfrica partners with AFI to build platinum jewellery market
By: Simone Liedtke 7th October 2021 South Africa's premiere platinum jewellery design and manufacturing competition PlatAfrica is again partnering with African Fashion International (AFI), as part of its ongoing strategy to build the platinum jewellery market, to showcase this year’s finalists’ pieces as part of 2021 Joburg Fashion... →
South Africa’s exploration investment lowest since democracy began, Joburg Indaba hears
By: Martin Creamer 7th October 2021 South Africa’s mining industry is at its lowest level of exploration investment since democracy began in 1994, the Joburg Indaba heard on Thursday. “Never have we spent less – and this is a pity because significant promises were made about an exploration plan for the country,” Joburg Indaba... →
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