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Magazine round up | 26 November 2021 
26th November 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
No reason why Eskom can’t make reliable comeback – Sir Mick Davis 
By: Martin Creamer 25th November 2021 There is no reason why Eskom cannot return to a situation where it can be a credible, reliable supplier of reasonably priced electricity, Sir Mick Davis said on Thursday. “Eskom is a resolvable problem," said Davis, a former Eskom CFO and now back in critical minerals and metals mining in the... →
Very strong platinum imports into China – WPIC
By: Martin Creamer 24th November 2021 Many things could play out next year that have the potential to materially reduce the substantial platinum surplus that the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) is forecasting for next year, Mining Weekly can today report. Among these is the very strong current importation of platinum into... →
Namibia heading for world record green hydrogen costs, conference hears 
By: Martin Creamer 22nd November 2021 With its vast potential for wind and solar energy, Namibia is excellently placed to become a global player in green hydrogen production, the Africa Green Hydrogen Forum's virtual conference heard on Monday, when green hydrogen was highlighted as the key decarbonisation vector in the global fight... →
Magazine round up | 19 November 2021
19th November 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Glencore sets ‘just transition’ from coal in promising motion with wheat pilot project
By: Martin Creamer 18th November 2021 Glencore has set the ‘just transition’ in promising motion with a highly successful winter wheat pilot project in Mpumalanga, South Africa’s province of coal mining and coal-fired power generation. The programme, which began in April, has been described as being hugely successful in demonstrating... →
Zambia going all out to up green energy, copper with private-sector at helm
By: Martin Creamer 16th November 2021 Zambia zoomed into town today and did all it could to sweep investors off their feet with pledges to be private-sector driven, surge into green energy, and do everything it can to regain top spot in global copper at a time when the metal is set to play such a key role in the fight against climate... →
Expect to be unemployed from age 40, Miller warns graduates entering mining
By: Martin Creamer 15th November 2021 Because of the collapse of investment in greenfields exploration in South Africa, any mining graduate entering the profession today can expect to be unemployed from the age of 40, said AmaranthCX director and founder Paul Miller on Monday, when he pointed out that South Africa is now at an... →
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,... →
Magazine round up | 12 November 2021
12th November 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
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... →
Magazine round up | 05 November 2021
5th November 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Afrimat posts strong interim results, with all segments contributing positively to growth
By: Marleny Arnoldi 4th November 2021 Midtier openpit miner Afrimat has confirmed it is in a healthy financial position and able to accelerate growth, after delivering a ‘pleasing’ performance in the six months ended August 31. The group posted an operating profit of R582-million, up 65% on the R353-million operating profit... →
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... →
Magazine round up | 29 October 2021
By: Creamer Media Reporter 29th October 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
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... →
Parties sign terms of reference to catalyse mining industry modernisation
By: Donna Slater 26th October 2021 Representatives of the Mandela Mining Precinct (MMP) and five labour unions on October 26 signed an agreement on the terms of reference for the parties to collaborate on modernising the South African mining industry, resulting in the formation of the MMP – Organised Labour Consultative (OLC)... →
Diesel and load-shedding feature in summer outlook as Eskom's maintenance recovery takes longer than envisaged
By: Terence Creamer 25th October 2021 State-owned electricity utility Eskom says its reliability maintenance recovery (RMR) interventions have not yet succeeded in stabilising the performance of its unpredictable coal fleet and that more than year of ongoing maintenance is needed to address the poor performance of its generation... →
Magazine round up | 22 October 2021
22nd October 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
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... →
Magazine round up | 15 October 2021
15th October 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
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... →
Pan African well positioned as solid-margin extended-life gold producer
By: Martin Creamer 12th October 2021 Midtier South African gold mining company Pan African is building two schools for its communities, has handed over a clinic in Barberton, is planning to embed 35 MW of renewable energy, is constructing a water retreatment plant that will pretty much eliminate the use of potable water at Evander,... →
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... →
Magazine round up | 08 October 2021
8th October 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Innovation brings benefits and poses challenges
By: Simone Liedtke 8th October 2021 Integrating technological innovation into mining industry practices can result in reduced costs, increased productivity and improved worker safety. However, it also presents an unexpected challenge, as replacement motors, in particular, are now bought as smaller iterations, and often do not fit... →
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... →
South Africa in danger of missing out on commodity boom, Joburg Indaba hears
By: Martin Creamer 6th October 2021 A much more enabling environment is needed to ensure that South Africa does not miss out on yet another commodity boom, the Joburg Indaba heard on Wednesday. “We know that we’ve missed at least one commodity boom,” Foskor chairperson, Industrial Development Corporation director and founding... →
Innovative wireless sensor approach could make exploration cheaper – Prof
By: Martin Creamer 5th October 2021 An innovative wireless sensor method of mapping the subsurface of the earth could make exploration cheaper and mining safer, says Professor Musa Manzi, the award-winning director of the Seismic Research Centre of the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. The method, which... →
Investment in mining crucial to ensure continued contribution to economy – PwC
By: Martin Creamer 5th October 2021 Investment in the mining industry is crucial to ensure its continued contribution to the South African economy, says PwC in its thirteenth edition of SA Mine 2021, a series of publications that highlights trends in the South African mining industry. In a year of doom and gloom on so many fronts,... →
Giant private mining companies getting away with no obligation to report anything publicly
By: Martin Creamer 4th October 2021 A globally significant chrome producer operating six chrome mines and employing 7 000 people inside South Africa – with a social labour plan obligation on every mine, with tax and royalty obligations paid to the State – is permitted to operate in this country with no ongoing public disclosure... →
Magazine round up | 01 October 2021
1st October 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Countercyclical Northam growth strategy creates 8 000 jobs, 2 000 this year
By: Martin Creamer 30th September 2021 The record operational and financial performance of Northam Platinum in the 12 months to June 30 was accompanied by the creation of 2 335 new sustainable jobs, which takes the total generated by the platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company well-timed growth strategy from 2015 to 8 232. In... →
Green Sedibelo will use 82% less electricity to take PGMs all the way to end consumer
By: Martin Creamer 28th September 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) producer Sedibelo Platinum Mines is well on its way to becoming the lowest of low-energy PGM energy users and the highest of high on-site beneficiators of metals that are key in the global fight against climate change. Sedibelo’s technology sensation is the remarkable... →
Green 175 MW power for Sibanye-Stillwater platinum group metal mines
By: Martin Creamer 27th September 2021 A total of 174 MW of clean, green renewable power is on the way for Sibanye-Stillwater’s platinum group metal (PGM) mines in South Africa. The total cost of the three project scheme will be in the order of R2.5-billion to R2.8-billion. →
Magazine round up | 24 September 2021
24th September 2021 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Menar spells out diversification strategy
By: Martin Creamer 24th September 2021 The diversification strategy of private investment and management company Menar is very much in sync with the global push towards a greener future, says Menar MD Vuslat Bayoglu. Speaking to Mining Weekly in an online interview for this Joburg Indaba Preview Feature, Bayoglu outlined how Menar’s... →
Long-term supply contracts shielding Sibanye-Stillwater from PGMs price swing
By: Martin Creamer 23rd September 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Sibanye-Stillwater has emphasised its strong long-term supply contract positions in the face of the current spot price pendulum swinging away from the sky-high price levels of earlier this year. Most of the sales of the Johannesburg- and... →
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