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Investment required to meet mining’s decarbonisation, power challenges – PwC 
By: Martin Creamer 4th October 2022 South Africa’s mining sector will be required to make major investments into alternative and renewable energy sources and energy planning to address the dual challenges of decarbonisation and reliable power supply, PwC said on Tuesday when it launched its SA Mine report, which highlights mining’s... →
Magazine round up | 30 September 2022
30th September 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Minerals Council ‘absolutely adamant’ about need for commercially available cadastre
By: Martin Creamer 29th September 2022 The key objective of transparency in applying for prospecting rights and mining rights – and openly managing them – can be enabled by a commercially available cadastre system. While South Africa does not have such a cadastre, fellow African countries that are already thriving on it include... →
Green hydrogen, fuel cells important part of any future energy system, says global strategist
By: Martin Creamer 27th September 2022 Green hydrogen and fuel cells will be a very important part of any future energy system, says Switzerland-based energy and sustainability consultancy strategist Dr David Hart. Among the electrolysers that convert renewable electricity into green hydrogen are proton exchange membrane (PEM)... →
South Africans urged to turn exploration into Big Hairy Audacious Goal
By: Martin Creamer 24th September 2022 South Africans have been urged to rally around exploration as this country's Big Hairy Audacious Goal – a BHAG – so that what is described as "our lowest hanging economic fruit" can be turned to positive account. Council for Geoscience CEO Mosa Mabuza, who was speaking in support of the junior... →
New fund-raising product appropriate for junior miners, says JSE
By: Martin Creamer 23rd September 2022 The JSE has a new product that is appropriate for fund-raising by junior mining companies, JSE origination and deals head Sam Mokorosi said on Friday. Mokorosi, who was speaking at Minerals Council South Africa’s Junior and Emerging Miners Desk webinar, highlighted the new product against the... →
Green hydrogen at sea on world-first offshore demonstrator platform
By: Martin Creamer 23rd September 2022 The world’s first offshore green hydrogen production demonstrator platform has been positioned offshore of France. “This is the first time that renewable hydrogen will be produced at sea,” French company Lhyfe stated in a release to Engineering News & Mining Weekly. (Also watch attached Creamer... →
Magazine round up | 23 September 2022
23rd September 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Women-owned company aims to revive SA’s phosphate industry after securing mining right
By: Natasha Odendaal 23rd September 2022 Adelaide Ruiters Mining & Exploration (ARME) has secured a mining right for its Zandheuvel phosphate mine, in Saldanha Bay, and CEO and founder Adelaide Ruiters hopes to revive competences in South Africa’s phosphate industry. The 51% South African women-owned mining and exploration company is... →
World’s largest battery-electric mine truck heading for commercial availability in 2024
By: Martin Creamer 21st September 2022 The world’s largest battery-electric truck for underground mining is on its way to becoming commercially available in 2024. Sandvik’s 65 t TH665B machine removes between 1 t and 2 t of carbon dioxide (CO2) a day, along with heat and noise. →
Magazine round up | 16 September 2022
16th September 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Anthracite prospects looking very good – Menar
By: Martin Creamer 15th September 2022 The prospects for anthracite are looking very good, especially in terms of market value and having demand coming from different parts of the world, says Menar MD Vuslat Bayoglu, who was speaking to Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.) Bayoglu reports that... →
Pan African effectively building new underground gold mine at Evander
By: Martin Creamer 14th September 2022 Midtier Africa-focused gold producer Pan African Resources is effectively building a new internally-funded underground gold mine on two levels of the Evander underground gold mine in Mpumalanga, CEO Cobus Loots said on Wednesday when the company reported record production for the 12 months to... →
PGMs hotter than ever amid upcoming SAIMM greener world collaboration event
By: Martin Creamer 13th September 2022 Platinum group metals (PGMs) as global decarbonisation and environmental, social and governance (ESG) enablers have arguably never been a hotter topic globally, which will be highlighted at the upcoming in-person conference of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) at Sun... →
Sandvik officially launches its new high-tech Khomanani manufacturing facility
By: Shannon de Ryhove 9th September 2022 Multinational mining and mineral processing equipment manufacturer Sandvik launched its new high-tech head office facility, workshop and manufacturing complex in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, on September 9. The facility was officially opened by President Cyril Ramaphosa. →
Magazine round up | 09 September 2022
9th September 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Platinum remains significantly undervalued – WPIC
By: Martin Creamer 5th September 2022 Platinum remains significantly undervalued. That is the key takeaway from the 30-page Platinum Quarterly published by the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). “Why I say that platinum remains undervalued is that we've got a situation where the opportunities for platinum look good. →
Magazine round up | 02 September 2022
2nd September 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Motor manufacturer helping to reduce load on grid
By: Tracy Hancock 2nd September 2022 In focusing on energy efficiency, Zest WEG, a subsidiary of Brazilian motor and controls manufacturer WEG, is helping the South African mining industry reduce its load on the country’s fragile energy generation system through the uptake of its products. For example, the company started... →
ARM ups dividend, highlights climate commitment, shifts to green energy
By: Martin Creamer 1st September 2022 Diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) on Thursday paid higher dividends, reiterated its full commitment to climate change mitigation, and outlined the start of its intended shift towards the implementation of renewable energy. In affirming the Johannesburg Stock... →
Implats commits R50bn capex to mines, beneficiation, energy, decarbonisation
By: Martin Creamer 1st September 2022 Platinum group metals (PGM) company Implats, which generated free cash flow of R28.8-billion in the 12 months to June 30, said on Thursday that it had allocated R4.3-billion over the next five years to energy security and decarbonisation. Gross profit totalled R41.3-billion at a gross margin of... →
DRDGold's livelihoods initiative attracts 8 000-plus direct participants
By: Martin Creamer 31st August 2022 The livelihoods initiative introduced by surface gold mining company DRDGold has to date attracted more than 8 000 direct participants at a time when boosting jobs and livelihoods in South Africa has never been more important The broad-based livelihoods (BBL) programme of the Johannesburg- and... →
Feasibility studies this year for Mponeng gold mine deepening – Harmony
By: Martin Creamer 30th August 2022 Time will be spent this year on doing feasibility studies relating to the deepening of the Mponeng gold mine on the West Rand, Harmony Gold CEO Peter Steenkamp said on Tuesday. In response to Afrifocus Securities analyst Des Moines on how important Mponeng woud be in the years to come, Steenkamp... →
Harmony working hard to boost productivity
By: Martin Creamer 30th August 2022 Gold mining company Harmony Gold on Tuesday announced a programme to improve the human dimension of safety and productivity by combining cultural transformation with technological advancements. The target of the Safety 300 or S300 programme is to safely lift the output per mining crew from the... →
Shirley Hayes sheds more light on next month’s copper listing on the JSE’s AltX
By: Martin Creamer 29th August 2022 Shirley Hayes, the founder and CEO of SHiP Copper, into which Big Tree Copper will be reversed when Copper 360 lists on the AltX of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) next month, on Monday shed more light on the way forward for what will be South Africa’s only pure copper play on the JSE. “It... →
Northam constructing, commissioning solar plants, securing wind energy
By: Martin Creamer 26th August 2022 The renewable energy plans of the Booysendal platinum group metals (PGMs) mine of Northam Platinum have been detailed quite extensively in the company’s 95-page sustainability report that will be available shortly online, Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne said on Friday, when the Johannesburg Stock... →
Northam forecasts R5.4bn capex as growth projects progress
By: Martin Creamer 26th August 2022 Platinum group metals company Northam, which refined 9.7% more metal than the prior year in the 12 months to June 30, on Friday forecast capital expenditure (capex) of R5.4-billion for the current 2023 financial year – up on the R4.6-billion of 2022, and reflecting the progress of its... →
Magazine round up | 26 August 2022
26th August 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
DRDGold using satellite imagery to monitor tailings
By: Martin Creamer 24th August 2022 Johannesburg- and New York-listed surface gold mining company DRDGold is using satellite imagery to monitor its tailings dumps, in addition to quarterly drone surveillance. An international tailings performance management system implemented ensures the integrity of data for day-to-day management... →
Green hydrogen atlas to be officially launched before year-end – Sasscal
By: Martin Creamer 22nd August 2022 With close to 90% of all the datasets for the Southern African green hydrogen atlas having been collected, its official launch will definitely take place before year-end, Sasscal executive director Dr Jane Olwoch assured Engineering News & Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview on Monday. Moreover,... →
Magazine round up | 19 August 2022
19th August 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Exxaro partnering Enertrag to support just energy transition
By: Martin Creamer 18th August 2022 Coal and renewable energy company Exxaro has built a renewable energy business that is said to be well positioned to contribute significantly to addressing South Africa's electricity deficit. Emphasised by the JSE-listed company is that South Africa's economic growth and social progress depends... →
Royal Bafokeng Platinum, NWDoE partner to deliver two new schools in Rustenburg
By: Shannon de Ryhove 18th August 2022 Platinum group metals mining company Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) has provided a tangible example of its philosophy of “More than Mining”, by partnering with the North West Department of Education (NWDoE) to officially open two newly built primary and secondary schools at Waterkloof Hills... →
Exxaro eyeing green hydrogen, new CEO tells Mining Weekly
By: Martin Creamer 18th August 2022 Diversified minerals and energy company Exxaro is eyeing green hydrogen, new Exxaro CEO Dr Nombasa Tsengwa disclosed on Thursday when the JSE-listed company reported 147%-higher half-year group earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of R10 603-million on mainly... →
Thungela shares R500m with employees, community as it sets out to plant million trees, add solar power
By: Martin Creamer 16th August 2022 Coal mining and exporting company Thungela, which generated R8.9-billion free cash in the first six months to June 30, is sharing R500-million of it with employees and communities, setting out to plant a million trees to purify water, putting in solar power to reduce its carbon footprint as it... →
Back in person: Virtual events no match for face-to-face connections - Electra Mining organisers
By: Mariaan Webb 16th August 2022 Virtual events, conferences and meetings rapidly became the norm during the coronavirus pandemic, forcing businesses to adapt to a new reality as health concerns took top priority. While online gatherings were accepted with gusto in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, trade shows, exhibitions and... →
Seriti says R892m Windlab deal is ‘significant landmark’ in transition from coal to energy business
By: Terence Creamer 15th August 2022 Black-owned coal miner Seriti Resources says the R892-million acquisition of a majority stake in Windlab Africa’s wind and solar assets represents a significant landmark in the company’s ambition to become a diversified energy business, as well as in reducing its own carbon emissions. Through the... →
Stillwater repositioned for delivery through commodity cycle
By: Martin Creamer 12th August 2022 Prevailing macro-environment challenges and changing palladium market conditions have prompted a strategic revision of Sibanye-Stillwater’s United States platinum group metal (PGM) operations, which in June suffered a one-in-200-year flood at Stillwater, in the Montana region. These challenges... →
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