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More platinum-based green hydrogen generation on the way 
By: Martin Creamer 3rd October 2022 Up to 1 350 t of green hydrogen can now be generated a year from renewable solar and wind power in the Wunsiedel Energy Park, in Germany. “This is another example of platinum-based production of green hydrogen in Europe that will assist both the replacement of imported natural gas and the earlier... →
NorZinc agrees to cash-offer to continue Prairie Creek development
By: Mariaan Webb 3rd October 2022 Canadian zinc and lead developer NorZinc on Friday agreed to a cash offer from private equity group RCF VI (RCF) to maintain the current development work at its Prairie Creek project, in the Northwest Territories. RCF will buy NorZinc for C$0.0325 a share in cash, which represents a 3.5%... →
Sierra reaches agreement with communities blocking Yauricocha road
By: Mariaan Webb 29th September 2022 Toronto-listed Sierra Metals has reached an agreement with residents from the town of Alis, following the blockade of the main access road to the Yauricocha mine, in Peru, the company reported on Wednesday. The company is undertaking safety inspections and reviews to support the progressive... →
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... →
Metals for cleaner future being turned to account in minerals-endowed Northern Cape
By: Martin Creamer 28th September 2022 South Africa’s critical minerals potential is being highlighted in an increasingly promising manner by Orion Minerals, the Sydney- and Johannesburg-listed company that is showing the way in the minerals-endowed Northern Cape. Orion, headed by its Boksburg-born CEO Errol Smart, is poised to bestow... →
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... →
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. →
Minerals Council urges faster inclusion of private electricity suppliers
By: Martin Creamer 19th September 2022 The Minerals Council South Africa supports President Cyril Ramaphosa’s electricity recovery plan and urges more rapid private sector participation in resolving the country’s deepening electricity crisis. Minerals Council members have 6 500 MW of embedded energy projects in the pipeline which will... →
Trevali CEO resigns as sales process for Rosh Pinah and Caribou gets under way
By: Mariaan Webb 19th September 2022 Embattled base metals miner Trevali Mining has kicked off a court-approved sales process for its interest in the 90%-owned Rosh Pinah mine, in Namibia, and its fully-owned Caribou mine, in Canada. The Supreme Court of British Columbia last week granted a sales and investment solicitation process... →
Ministers follow President in visiting Jagersfontein diamond disaster area
By: Martin Creamer 12th September 2022 Following the visit of President Cyril Ramaphosa to the Jagersfontein-Charlesville area in the Free State, Minerals Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantsashe will today visit the diamond tailings deposition dam that burst its banks, killing at least one person and destroying homes. Mineral... →
Google map of the Jagersgontein tailings dam, which has burst its banks.
Santander mine owner applies for TSX listing
By: Mariaan Webb 30th August 2022 Cerro de Pasco Resources (CDPR), the company which bought the Santander mine from Trevali last year, has applied to list its common shares on the TSX. "Listing our shares to the TSX will mark a valuable milestone that will highlight CDPR's impact. This is a crucial step in our growth that will... →
Most base metals climb on supply concerns, demand uncertainty
By: Reuters 23rd August 2022 Prices of most base metals moved higher on Tuesday, as supply-and-demand worries amid an energy crisis in Europe and China lent some support to the market against the backdrop of reduced stockpiles. The most-traded September zinc contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange SZNc1 was up 2% at 25... →
Uncertain demand prospects undermine copper prices
By: Reuters 22nd August 2022 Copper prices slipped on Monday as worries about demand dominated sentiment, though sliding inventories provided some support. A manufacturing slowdown in top metals consumer China in recent months because of Covid-19 lockdowns has weakened demand for the metal used widely in the power and... →
South Africans called on to apply for funding to build South Africa’s hydrogen economy
By: Martin Creamer 19th August 2022 A call for funding applications to be submitted for the development of the hydrogen economy is made in an advertisement placed today by South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI). The call is for funding applications to be... →
Trevali warns it will default on debt
By: Mariaan Webb 16th August 2022 Base metals miner Trevali warned on Monday that its liabilities exceeded its assets and that it would not be able to make a mandatory payment of $7.5-million on a revolving credit facility this week. This comes as the company has faced several setbacks, including a flooding event that shuttered... →
Environmental, social and governance elevating to safety-equalling status, mining webinar hears
By: Martin Creamer 11th August 2022 The shift from linear to circular value chains has the potential to impact all aspects of mining and requires a rethink, Anglo American Platinum sustainable impact head Stephen Bullock has told a Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) webinar. In a presentation on the... →
High-flying Glencore locks in renewable power, prioritises future-facing metals
By: Martin Creamer 4th August 2022 Diversified mining and marketing company Glencore, which delivered exceptionally strong financial results in the six months to June30, is taking steps to progress its decarbonisation pathway, CEO Gary Nagle said on Thursday. The steps include locking in a number of renewable purchase power... →
Anglo’s big on-site solar, off-site wind plan lays foundation for green hydrogen
By: Martin Creamer 3rd August 2022 The planned construction by Anglo American of on-site solar plants and off-site regional wind farms is designed to create a renewable energy ecosystem that reduces Scope 2 emissions and lays the foundation for green hydrogen production – “a hugely ambitious piece of work, and not one that is... →
President Ramaphosa’s got it right, says ex-Eskom CEO on new energy plan
By: Martin Creamer 1st August 2022 African Rainbow Energy and Power CEO and former Eskom CEO Brian Dames concurs fully with the energy plan unveiled by President Cyril Ramaphosa. “I think he’s got it right,” was Dames's summing up of the President's energy initiative during a discussion at the Coal & Energy Transition Day, covered... →
Glencore’s ferrochrome production up on consistent smelter performance
By: Martin Creamer 29th July 2022 Ferrochrome production, which is South Africa-based, rose 2% in the six months to June 30, reflecting consistent smelter performance, Glencore reported on Friday. Attributable ferrochrome production of 786 000 t was 13 000 t higher than in the first half of last year amid overall production being... →
Glencore CEO Gary Nagle
Hurdles in Central, East Africa hamper mining
By: Mandisa Nyathi 29th July 2022 While the outlook for mining is bright, continued resource nationalism, increasing Chinese influence in mining affairs and illegal mining are significant challenges that Central and East Africa continues to face, says Boies Schiller Flexner partner Timothy Foden →
Sandfire smashes through expectations
By: Esmarie Iannucci 28th July 2022 Copper/gold miner Sandfire Resources has exceeded its annual production expectations following a strong June quarter. Copper production during the June quarter reached 34 974 t, up from the 28 774 t produced in the March quarter, pushing full year copper production to reach 98 367 t, well above... →
Radical renewables, hydrogen ramp-up needed, coal energy transition day hears
By: Martin Creamer 27th July 2022 A radical ramp-up of renewable energy and green hydrogen capacity will be needed by 2040 to take South Africa towards a net-zero climate change commitment, the Coal & Energy Transition Day heard on Wednesday. On the coal-fired power front, South Africa would from the 2040s/2045s need to have... →
Presidential Climate Change Commission executive director Chrispian Olver.
World-first hydrogen haul truck operational from August – Anglo Platinum
By: Martin Creamer 27th July 2022 The pilot world-first hydrogen haul truck launched early in the year, has had some final changes made to it before it heads into the pit and goes into operational mode from August. Meanwhile, the second prototype is already underway, where learnings from the first truck are being taken into the... →
South32 sticks to plan in June quarter
By: Esmarie Iannucci 25th July 2022 Diversified miner South32 has seen production increases in alumina, aluminium, copper, nickel and manganese ore for the three months to June, with operations delivering to plan despite weather impacts and labour availability issues. “Our teams delivered another strong operating performance in... →
Galena sets production target for 2023
By: Esmarie Iannucci 22nd July 2022 Base metals developer Galena Mining has set a production target of between 53 000 t and 68 000 t of lead from its Abra project, in Western Australia, for the 2023 financial year. Construction at the A$170-million Abra project is some 75% complete, Galena reported this week, and first concentrate... →
GCM’s gold and silver production up year-on-year
By: Darren Parker 18th July 2022 TSX-listed GCM Mining produced 16 370 oz of gold in June at its Segovia operations, in Colombia, bringing the total for the second quarter to 53 198 oz, compared with 52 198 oz a year prior. On July 18, GCM reported that it had also produced 85 741 oz of silver for the quarter, up from 54 573 oz... →
Basing analysis solely on data can result in treasure being mistaken for trash
By: Martin Creamer 15th July 2022 Applying subject matter expertise to process data streams for accuracy is a necessary part of mining’s new digital age, according to SRK Consulting Global chief technology officer Mike Olsen. Olsen, the leader of SRK’s data engineering team, spoke to Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview from Canada.... →
New mining Bill major threat to jobs and investment, must be strenuously opposed – ENSafrica
By: Martin Creamer 14th July 2022 A new draconian mining industry draft Bill, which threatens jobs and investment – and can even impose a penalty of 10% of turnover on a mine company, along with corporate manslaughter charges – must be “very, very strenuously opposed", top South African mining industry lawyer Willem Le Roux urged... →
Presenting ENSafrica webinar are from top anti-clockwise Willem Le Roux, Pieter Colyn and Celeste Coles.
Jubilee appoints nonexecutive director to chair safety, sustainability committee
By: Donna Slater 14th July 2022 Aim- and AltX-listed diversified metals processing company Jubilee Metals Group has appointed Tracey Kerr independent nonexecutive director with immediate effect. Based in the UK, she is currently a nonexecutive director of Hochschild Mining, a FTSE 250 precious metal mining company with mines... →
Mine haulage transition to electric offered without disruption
By: Martin Creamer 1st July 2022 If the world were to electrify every mine truck, it would stop 198 000 t of carbon dioxide (CO2) a day from entering the atmosphere, which equates to a single electrified mining truck eliminating what would take 46 000 trees to absorb. That mammoth sustainability benefit was driven home firmly... →
Metals set for worst quarter since 2008 on global downturn angst
By: Bloomberg 30th June 2022 Base metals headed for the worst quarterly slump since the global financial crisis in 2008 as China’s economy recovered only gradually and fears of a world recession intensified. The London Metal Exchange Index has tumbled 23% since the end of March, although the decline has been magnified due... →
Renewables plans poised to slash Scope 2 emissions at Grootegeluk coal mine by up to 90%
By: Martin Creamer 27th June 2022 Going forward, combined renewables plans already in place are poised to slash Scope 2 emissions at Exxaro Resources’s Grootegeluk coal mine in Limpopo by up to 90%. The renewable strategy being executed by coal miner Exxaro’s wholly owned green energy arm – Cennergi – is the key driver of the... →
Deeming could bring regulatory certainty to much-needed minerals investment – NSDV
By: Martin Creamer 23rd June 2022 The detraction of the South African investment market is the uncertainty around approval timelines and the implementation of a deeming provision could change all that by treating applications as approved after the passing of a set period of time. Many want to invest in exploration and mining... →
Walkabout's maiden drill programme finds lead, zinc mineralisation at Scotland project
By: Marleny Arnoldi 21st June 2022 ASX-listed Walkabout Resources has announced solid assay results from a maiden drilling programme having been completed for 1 667 m at the Blackcraig lead/zinc/silver project, in Scotland. The assays results confirm the extension of a high-grade mineralised zone beneath historic lead/zinc mines... →
Green hydrogen’s business case significantly strengthened, summit hears
By: Martin Creamer 17th June 2022 Green hydrogen, when earlier identified as a necessary clean energy source to help the world achieve net-zero emissions in the coming decades, was higher up the cost curve than fossil fuels. Now that has changed with this week’s Financial Times Hydrogen Summit emphasising that green hydrogen’s... →
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