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Computing, food tech among many new PGM opportunity areas – Anglo Platinum 
By: Martin Creamer 28th July 2021 The computing world is an opportunity area for platinum group metals (PGMs), along with food technology, alloy development, medical advance, waste control, battery and storage – and that is on top of the now much-celebrated and pervasive green hydrogen feedstock phenomenon. JSE-listed Anglo... →
Kumba working with Transnet to fix tracks so that rail speed can be lifted
By: Martin Creamer 27th July 2021 Anglo American group mining company Kumba Iron Ore, which on Tuesday reported a superb set of record half-year results, is working with Transnet to refurbish the iron-ore export line so that trains can travel at a higher average speed than the current 30 km/h. In the six months to June 30,... →
Anglo Platinum evaluating multiple renewable energy forms
By: Martin Creamer 26th July 2021 As a result its geographic distribution across South Africa, the Anglo American group is collectively evaluating options to access multiple forms of renewable energy, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) CEO Natascha Viljoen said on Monday. The JSE-listed company has already completed the design and... →
Magazine round up | 23 July 2021
23rd July 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Extremely strong demand for platinum bar and coin – WPIC
By: Martin Creamer 22nd July 2021 Extremely strong demand for platinum bar and coin is being seen around the world, particularly in the US, along with growth in demand for platinum exchange traded funds (ETFs), mainly out of North America and Europe, World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) head of research Trevor Raymond said... →
Exploration trailblazer Orion cracks retail investor code with 14 000-plus SA backers
By: Martin Creamer 21st July 2021 More than 14 000 South Africans now own shares in the discovery and development mining company Orion Minerals, which is reflective of retail investment that can be stimulated in South Africa to support essential local minerals exploration. What is also extremely promising is that the dual listed... →
Mine achieves massive earnings boost after employing four more people
By: Martin Creamer 19th July 2021 Guided by a value driver tree (VDT) study, an opencast mine increased its earnings massively after employing four additional operators at comparatively negligible cost. The operation’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) soared hugely from $634.3-million to... →
Magazine round up | 16 July 2021
16th July 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Things are very rosy in the world of AfriTin – Anthony Viljoen
By: Martin Creamer 15th July 2021 At a time of galloping global tin demand, the London Aim-listed mining company AfriTin Mining not only has one of the biggest tin resources in the world at Uis in Namibia, but it has also been lucky enough to stumble upon one of the biggest hard-rock lithium resources on the planet, at a time of... →
Tools enabling collaborative impact monitoring, engagement
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 15th July 2021 Most mining impacts and challenges are local and occur at site level. Two recently developed tools are being used to enable collaborative impact monitoring and engagement with mining companies at mine-site level. These tools and their use were expounded upon during the Responsible Mining... →
Hydrogen economy can create 30-million jobs, Japanese professor calculates
By: Martin Creamer 14th July 2021 Thirty-million jobs can be created through the introduction of the hydrogen economy to decarbonise the world, HyWealth founder and CEO Professor Katsuhiko Hirose said on Wednesday. While hydrogen is currently more expensive than fossil fuel, green hydrogen will be the cheapest solution by 2050,... →
Exploration is quick foreign investment ‘no brainer’, says Minerals Council’s Smart
By: Martin Creamer 13th July 2021 Exploration is one of the quickest ways to secure foreign direct investment into South Africa for the generation of desperately needed jobs and wealth during the country's hour of need, said Minerals Council South Africa junior and emerging miners’ leadership forum chairperson Errol Smart on... →
Magazine round up | 09 July 2021
9th July 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Renewed focus needed to address health and safety regression, mental health toll of Covid-19
By: Donna Slater 8th July 2021 A regression in the health and safety performance of South Africa’s mining industry and the impact of “Covid-19 fatigue “ were noteworthy topics of discussion at the yearly National Day of Health and Safety 2021, hosted by the Minerals Council South Africa on July 8. This year’s event was... →
Explorer within striking distance of declaring maiden SA diamond resource
By: Martin Creamer 7th July 2021 After investing just over R20-million on diamond exploration projects in South Africa, diamond exploration and development company Botswana Diamonds is within striking distance of being able to declare its maiden diamond resource. “We’re not too far off declaring a major resource at Thorny... →
Gold heading towards ‘refuge of choice’ status, says incoming AngloGold CEO
By: Martin Creamer 6th July 2021 Gold is poised to be a "refuge of choice" in the years ahead owing to the extent to which money is being printed and world debt is rising, AngloGold Ashanti CEO-designate Alberto Calderon said on Tuesday. Speaking to Mining Weekly in a Microsoft Teams interview ahead of taking office on September... →
Yamkela Makupula clinches exciting Rockwell-linked alluvial diamond deal
By: Martin Creamer 5th July 2021 Alluvial diamond mining investor Yamkela Makupula has clinched an alluvial diamond mining transaction which makes her a 30% shareholder in three diamond assets that have a link with the former Rockwell Diamonds. Makupula, who leads the Africa growth strategy of international law firm Diaz, Reus,... →
Celebrating 40 years with Martin Creamer
5th July 2021 This year marks Creamer Media’s 40th anniversary of promoting current, credible and comprehensive news coverage about economic developments. →
Magazine round up | 02 July 2021
2nd July 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Hydrogen represents huge moment of opportunity for South Africa – AP Ventures
By: Martin Creamer 28th June 2021 Hydrogen represents a huge moment of opportunity for South Africa, AP Ventures managing partner Andrew Hinkly said on Monday. AP Ventures began investing along the generally platinum group metals- (PGMs-) linked hydrogen value chain as long ago as 2013 and the $320-million committed in AP... →
Cash-pumping but lossmaking Wescoal to broaden from coal to energy
By: Martin Creamer 25th June 2021 Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed coal-mining company Wescoal, which narrowed its losses in the 12 months to the end of March, is transitioning from being a coal miner to a broader energy company. “Towards the end of the new financial year, we will come back to the market in terms of our overall... →
Magazine round up | 25 June 2021
25th June 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Black-women-owned platinum fuel cell group working on 15 deployment projects
By: Martin Creamer 23rd June 2021 Majority black-women-owned platinum fuel cell venture Bambili Energy is working on 15 hydrogen and fuel cell-linked deployment projects that are expected to be completed by March next year. Bambili CEO Zanele Mavuso Mbatha is a former key shareholder in Incwala Resources, which partnered with... →
President’s 100 MW renewable energy reform ‘very welcome opportunity’ – Harmony Gold
By: Martin Creamer 22nd June 2021 Harmony Gold sustainable development executive Melanie Naidoo-Vermaak on Tuesday described the decision of President Cyril Ramaphosa to lift the licence-exemption cap on own or embedded renewable energy plants from 1 MW to 100 MW as “a very welcome opportunity" for the South African mining... →
Carbon capture helpful decarbonisation tool – investment professionals
By: Martin Creamer 21st June 2021 Carbon capture and storage is one of the tools in the toolkit that needs to be included in the decarbonisation mix if the world is to reduce emissions effectively over a reasonable time horizon. That is the view of Carbon Infrastructure Partners president and managing partner Craig Golinowski,... →
Mandela Mining Precinct engendering modernisation in industry
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 21st June 2021 As the Mandela Mining Precinct marks its third year since inception, it has made some strides in achieving much-needed modernisation in the mining industry. Its work stands as a notable example of the benefits of collaboration, speakers noted during the precinct’s virtual symposium, held on June 21. →
Magazine round up | 18 June 2021
18th June 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Sasol able to produce green hydrogen within 24 months – CEO 
By: Martin Creamer 17th June 2021 Synthetic fuels and chemicals company Sasol is in a position to be able to produce green hydrogen within the next 24 months, Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler said on Thursday. Grobler was responding to Absa group industrials research head Christina Steyn, who moderated an SA Tomorrow panel discussion... →
300-plus vehicle fleets assessed for cleaner, safer mine mobility in five regions – ICMM
By: Martin Creamer 15th June 2021 As part of the cleaner, safer vehicles initiative of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), more than 300 vehicle fleets have been assessed for cleaner, safer mobility on more than 300 mines in five regions globally, ICMM health, safety and product stewardship director Sarah Bell... →
Allow geologists from surrounding African countries to boost SA's exploration rebirth, top explorer advises
By: Martin Creamer 11th June 2021 Exploration geologists from surrounding countries should be allowed into South Africa to boost exploration. That is the view of Exploration Geology Consultants exploration manager Thinus Jordaan, who believes that South Africa’s planned exploration thrust should focus on commodities required in... →
Magazine round up | 11 June 2021
11th June 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Mining firms with higher ESG ratings outperform market – PwC
By: Martin Creamer 8th June 2021 Mining companies with higher environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings outperformed the broader market during the peak of the Covid-19 crisis, delivering 34% average total shareholder return over the past three years — ten percentage points higher than the general market index, PwC... →
Major joint effort needed to meet host community challenge – Menar
By: Martin Creamer 7th June 2021 A major joint effort is needed by big and small mining companies, government, labour, communities and traditional leaders and municipalities to meet the host community challenge facing South Africa’s mining industry, Menar MD Vuslat Bayoglu said on Monday. Speaking to Mining Weekly in a Zoom... →
Magazine round up | 04 June 2021
4th June 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Today’s juniors targeting rich beyond-mining value-add to world’s new critical metals
By: Martin Creamer 3rd June 2021 Junior miners of the world’s new critical metals are targeting the rich value-add opportunity well beyond taking the ore out of the ground and shipping out concentrate, the Junior Indaba heard this week. Junior miners of metals such as rare earths, vanadium, nickel, platinum-group metals and... →
Hot prices pervading commodities market, CRU tells Junior Indaba
By: Martin Creamer 2nd June 2021 Price hotness is pervading the commodities market, CRU senior analyst Clare Hanna said on Tuesday, when she addressed the second and final day of the Junior Indaba. Speaking on ‘what’s hot and what’s not’, Hanna said almost all commodities were at the higher-than-15% level. (Also watch attached... →
Tender for new modern cadastre system to be invited next week
By: Martin Creamer 1st June 2021 A tender for a new modern cadastre system to provide exploration information will be invited by the end of next week, Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) director-general Advocate Thabo Mokoena said on Tuesday. In his opening keynote address on initiatives to ignite the exploration... →
Battery material value-add consolidation in South Africa under consideration by Mick Davis-linked NextSource
By: Martin Creamer 31st May 2021 South Africa, which has the wherewithal to provide the value-add consolidation advantage to battery materials that the world’s electric vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) want, is being seriously considered for the role, NextSource president and CEO Craig Scherba said on Monday.... →
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