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Mining policy, NY zinc-air system, AngloGold Ashanti make headlines 
Updated 1 hour 17 minutes ago Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks why mining policy in South Africa needs to deal with both the highs and lows of mining, New York using platinum on the cathodes of a zinc-air system and AngloGold Ashanti investigating renewable energy projects across the entire group. →
NAIF changes legislated by Parliament
By: Esmarie Iannucci Updated 4 hours ago Reforms to the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) have passed through Parliament, allowing the fund to be extended for another five years, to 2026. “The reforms followed a statutory review of the NAIF and wide consultation with stakeholders throughout northern Australia, and the... →
Legal services worth the investment
By: Nadine Ramdass 14th May 2021 Legal services are often regarded as a grudge purchase; however, it ensures that consulting engineers and mining houses save money in the long term. “When consulting engineers are preparing bids for projects on behalf of mining companies, it becomes difficult to justify the cost of legal... →
Resolving tax, policy uncertainty could boost majors
By: Cameron Mackay 14th May 2021 If the Zambian government and the mining companies invested in the country can reach consensus on how mines should operate, how they should be taxed, and if they can apply this consistently, then mining majors, and the industry in general, will benefit significantly going forward, states mining... →
Specialised attorneys fill gaps engineers cannot
By: Nadine Ramdass 14th May 2021 Consulting engineers have valuable technical understanding but often lack the legal expertise to ensure that their intentions are well articulated and that the contract is balanced. The resulting gap requires legal experts to ensure that the contract is correctly drafted to protect the parties... →
Collaboration among industry associations must increase
By: Nadine Ramdass 14th May 2021 There is a need for increased collaboration between consulting engineering industry associations and Minerals Council South Africa, says Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) CEO Chris Campbell. Industry associations, such as Cesa, serve the purpose of working towards ensuring the wellbeing of... →
EU project focuses on responsible sourcing
By: Nadine Ramdass 14th May 2021 Technical consulting engineers and science expertise provider SRK Consulting has extensive experience and a long working history in the mining sector, and is using its expertise to assist the European Union’s (EU) Horizon-funded 2020 research and innovation programme, the EU RE-SOURCING project.... →
Platinum on cathodes of zinc-air system chosen to decarbonise New York City
By: Martin Creamer 13th May 2021 Platinum features on the cathode of zinc-air battery technology that is taking the City of New York by storm in helping to lower the carbon footprint of its buildings, Mining Weekly can today report. Zinc8, the Canadian Stock Exchange company that has won the city’s decarbonisation challenge, has... →
Iron-ore euphoria of today arising out of iron-ore despair of yesteryear offers crucial policy lesson, says mining analyst in a ‘Postcard to the President’
By: Martin Creamer 12th May 2021 If you bought R100 000 worth of shares in Kumba Iron Ore at the start of 2016, you would now be sitting on shares worth a staggering R2.67-million, excluding dividends. This is because Kumba’s all-time low share price of R25.35 in January 2016 has skyrocketed 2 647% to R696.45, reflecting the... →
In a ‘Postcard’ to President Cyril Ramaphosa, mining analyst Bruce Williamson (right) pleads for the creation of ‘all-weather’ mining policy.
Petra agrees to settlement over human rights abuses claims
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 12th May 2021 A settlement has been agreed with diamond miner Petra Diamonds following claims of serious human rights abuses at its majority-owned Williamson diamond mine in Tanzania. Law firm Leigh Day has agreed the settlement on behalf of 71 claimants who allege that they suffered serious human rights... →
Renewable energy projects under investigation across AngloGold
By: Martin Creamer 11th May 2021 Renewable energy projects are under investigation across the entire AngloGold Ashanti group, AngloGold Ashanti VP: environment Tony Da Cruz told Mining Weekly on Tuesday. Da Cruz reported that the gold mining company is also working with industry peers and vehicle original-equipment manufacturers... →
Appea calls for more reforms in federal budget
11th May 2021 The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (Appea) has called on the federal government to instigate more measures to boost investment and spending ahead of the federal Budget. “Australia entered its first recession in more than 30 years in June last year, halting more than... →
Release by AngloGold of vast exploration information attracting interest
By: Martin Creamer 10th May 2021 The release by departing AngloGold Ashanti of its vast exploration information is attracting interest, AngloGold executive VP of group planning and technical Graham Ehm said on Monday. Contained online is an exploration database involving the historic Witwatersrand Gold Basin and other goldfields... →
AngloGold executive VP of group planning and technical Graham Ehm
AngloGold Q1 earnings rise to $203m despite lower production, higher costs
By: Martin Creamer 10th May 2021 Gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti reported first quarter headline earnings of $203-million, driven by the higher gold price. Q1 production of 2021 of 588 000 oz was down on the 630 000 oz for the same period last year and total cash cost of $999/oz was well up on the $773/oz from continuing... →
AngloGold Ashanti interim CEO Christine Ramon
Gold Fields going greener and cleaner across broad front
By: Martin Creamer 7th May 2021 Gold mining company Gold Fields, which this week announced the board’s green light for a 40 MW solar photovoltaic plant at the South Deep mine, near Carletonville, intends taking short- medium- and long-term steps to lower emissions in underground mining in general and at South Deep in... →
Gold Fields' South Deep gold mine, near Carletonville
Chile copper miners cry foul as royalty bill advances to Senate
By: Reuters 7th May 2021 Chile's lower house of Congress approved on Thursday an opposition-led bill that would slap a progressive royalty on sales of copper as prices rise, sharply hiking taxes on the sprawling industry to pay for social programs during the Covid-19 pandemic. The legislation, which passed following a... →
Gold Fields chairperson Cheryl Carolus to step down at 2022 AGM
By: Martin Creamer 6th May 2021 Gold Fields chairperson Cheryl Carolus has announced that she will step down from her role and as a non-executive director with effect from the annual general meeting (AGM) in 2022. In her remarks to the 2021 AGM, which took place virtually on Thursday Carolus said she believed that after 12... →
Gold Fields on track to deliver on guidance
By: Martin Creamer 6th May 2021 Notwithstanding the impact of Covid-19, gold mining company Gold Fields produced attributable equivalent gold production of 541 000oz, which was largely flat year-on-year and down 9% quarter-on-quarter. The Johannesburg- and New York-listed company stated on Thursday, when it provided an... →
Gold Fields CEO Chris Griffith
Minerals Council encourages distributed generation for mining industry
By: Simone Liedtke 5th May 2021 The Minerals Council South Africa is encouraging the uptake of distributed generation (also called self-generation) of power in South Africa, especially considering that South Africa is facing an electricity supply gap. The impact of this is “huge”, Minerals Council CEO Roger Baxter told... →
Tanzania gets renewed hope to transform mining industry with Hassan administration – Leon
By: Donna Slater 5th May 2021 The “change of tone” brought by Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan over the past month could indicate a welcome new economic direction for the country, professional services firm Herbert Smith Freehills partner and Africa co-chairperson Peter Leon says. In March, former Tanzania... →
Use of ruthenium in fuel cells set to turn down as green hydrogen trend turns up – Heraeus
By: Martin Creamer 4th May 2021 The use of ruthenium in fuel cells is poised to decline in line with the growing trend towards the generation of green hydrogen. “We believe that the use of ruthenium in fuel cells will come down, as the trend to green hydrogen will bring with it purer feeds with less carbon monoxide impurities,... →
Ministers agree to pipeline reforms
By: Esmarie Iannucci 4th May 2021 Australian Energy Ministers have agreed to a major package of reforms to natural gas pipeline regulation that are expected to reduce costs of transportation and delivered gas, improve access to pipelines, and facilitate more effective competition in the gas market. The reforms agreed through a... →
Law firm adds to call for South Africa to launch an online central mining cadastral system
By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2021 South Africa aims to increase its share of global exploration expenditure to at least 3% in the next five years, an ambition which Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has touted as “laudable” during a recent keynote address to the platinum-group metals (PGMs) industry. He... →
2018 Mining Charter review application being heard this week
By: Schalk Burger 3rd May 2021 The application for the judicial review and setting aside of certain clauses of the 2018 Mining Charter, brought by mining industry organisation the Minerals Council South Africa in March 2019, is scheduled to be heard from May 3 to 6. The application is being brought in terms of the Promotion of... →
Promising suite of manganese assets facing extremely attractive manganese fundamentals
By: Martin Creamer 3rd May 2021 Unlisted empowered mining investment company Ntsimbintle Holdings, which last month grabbed the headlines by becoming the biggest shareholder in the ASX-listed Jupiter Mines Limited, has promising additional manganese mining assets serving a manganese market that observers describe as having... →
AP Ventures makes yet another promising hydrogen investment
By: Martin Creamer 30th April 2021 Venture capital funds manager AP Ventures has made yet another promising investment the fast-growing hydrogen sector, Mining Weekly can today report. AP Ventures Fund II focuses on hydrogen and its role in decarbonising energy and this latest investment is set up to contribute to establishing a... →
PGMs in all three drive trains if Lion Battery initiative is successful – Anglo
By: Martin Creamer 29th April 2021 If the Lion Battery Technologies initiative proves successful, platinum group metals (PGMs) will feature in all three of the world’s drive trains, Anglo American executive head of PGM market development Benny Oeyen said on Thursday. This would mean that PGMs would not only play key roles in... →
Minnesota court orders fresh review of PolyMet mine permits
By: Reuters 29th April 2021 The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered state regulators to reconsider some permits needed by PolyMet Mining Corp to build an openpit copper mine in the state's rural north, handing a win to environmentalists and delaying the project. The ruling from the state's top court comes as the... →
Mining policy should be hugely supportive of exploration’s multiplier magic – investor
By: Martin Creamer 28th April 2021 Mining, preceded by exploration, is the greatest economic multiplier of all business activities, including government expenditure, says Integral Asset Management chief investment officer Bruce Williamson. It therefore makes huge sense for government to enact attractive investment-friendly... →
Tackling climate change could not be more urgent – Anglo American
By: Martin Creamer 26th April 2021 Tackling climate change could not be more urgent, Anglo American said on Monday when it presented its biannual sustainability performance update. “For the emissions that we control in our business, we have come a long way, delivering our 2020 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 22% a... →
From left, clockwise Mark Cutifani, Anik Michaud and Stephen Pearce
Anglo explores PGMs-based tech to simplify hydrogen storage in electric vehicles
By: Martin Creamer 26th April 2021 Diversified mining and marketing company Anglo American, through its platinum group metals (PGMs) business Anglo American Platinum, is partnering with Umicore to research and develop technology that has the potential to transform the way hydrogen can be stored and used to power fuel cell electric... →
Anglo American executive head of PGMs market development Benny Oeyen
Mining industry not expected to oppose third draft of Financial Provisioning Regulations – Webber Wentzel
By: Donna Slater 23rd April 2021 The April 22 publication of an intention by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) to again amend the transitional arrangements contained in the National Environmental Management Act (Nema) Financial Provisioning Regulations provides “more breathing room” for mining... →
Industry test mine piques interest
By: Halima Frost 23rd April 2021 Of the initiatives and programmes implemented by the Mandela Mining Precinct, its industry test mine has garnered the most interest and positive sentiment from mining companies, universities and other interested parties. “About 40 companies have already expressed interest in using the real-life... →
Local procurement crucial to economic recovery
By: Halima Frost 23rd April 2021 Local procurement will be crucial if local companies are to benefit from the increased gold mining activity and the resultant increase in mine-related purchases, stresses industry body Mining Equipment Manufacturers of South Africa (Memsa). “We support the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery... →
Programme showing promising results
By: Halima Frost 23rd April 2021 The Advanced Orebody Knowledge (AOK) programme – one of six research programmes of the Mandela Mining Precinct – has reported notable results across a range of tests being conducted using the Precinct’s test mine near Rustenburg, in the North West. The programme aims to test and develop... →
Empowered Ntsimbintle strengthens standing in manganese mining 
By: Martin Creamer 20th April 2021 Mining investment company Ntsimbintle Holdings has acquired a further 13.8% stake in Jupiter Mines, making it the Australian-listed miner’s largest shareholder, with a total holding of 19.9% and entrenching its position in manganese mining at Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining's mine in the Northern... →
Wescoal looking to possibly becoming broader energy company
By: Martin Creamer 19th April 2021 The JSE-listed coal-mining company Wescoal is looking to possibly becoming a broader energy company in which coal remains a substantial but reducing component alongside other energy pursuits such as renewables, Wescoal interim CEO Robinson Ramaite said on Monday. Outlining the company’s major... →
Gold, exploration and coal contracts make headlines
16th April 2021 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks Barberton’s potential to get South African gold mining going again, South Africa’s exploration industry's deadline to comment on controversial draft regulations and Treasury being asked to cancel coal contracts and replace them with new ones at double... →
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