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Lagging platinum being actively promoted – Implats 
By: Martin Creamer 3rd September 2020 Demand for platinum, the price laggard of the high-flying platinum group metals basket, is being actively promoted on several fronts, Implats reported on Thursday. Following the company’s presentation of stellar cash-generating and dividend-yielding financial results, which featured a gross... →
Gross profit of cash-gushing Implats soars 240%, cash dividend declared
By: Martin Creamer 3rd September 2020 Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Implats on Thursday posted record headline earnings on the back of solid operational performances and record sales revenues – despite the considerable impact of Covid-19 – for its full year to June 30. The group, headed by CEO Nico... →
Bushveld advances electrolyte, solar, mini-grid projects
By: Martin Creamer 2nd September 2020 London-listed integrated primary vanadium producer and energy storage provider, Bushveld Minerals, the owner of assets in South Africa, on Wednesday reported progress with the group’s electrolyte plant, solar and mini-grid power project. Bushveld Energy intends devising self-generation options... →
Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo
South Africa’s green revolution gathering momentum
2nd September 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has presented countries around the world with immense challenges, as the impact of the virus has affected every aspect of everyday life as we know it, write Dr Cosmas Chiteme, Dr Rebecca Maserumule and Prof Dmitri Bessarabov. (Chiteme and Maserumule are senior managers at... →
Joburg’s political legacy mine dumps should come down to cut commute time – DRDGold
By: Martin Creamer 1st September 2020 South Africa Inc should be doing much more to incentivise the recovery of precious metals from tailings dams for sound societal and environmental reasons that could free Johannesburg of its artificial ‘Berlin Wall’-type political legacy barriers that tilt commute times unfairly and block new-era... →
Cash-gushing DRDGold declares dividend on fourfold rise in operating profit
By: Martin Creamer 1st September 2020 Surface gold mining company DRDGold on Tuesday declared its thirteenth successive-year dividend distribution on a fourfold-plus increase in group operating profit of R1 562.1-million, a sevenfold-plus headline earnings surge and rocketing market capitalisation. Free cashflow was R926.4-million... →
South Africa must link tax laws to job creation, says ARM’s Motsepe 
By: Martin Creamer 31st August 2020 The private sector worldwide is the engine for job creation, in partnership with trade union organisations, government and communities, and South Africa must link its tax legislation to job creation. That is the view African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) executive chairperson Dr Patrice Motsepe... →
ARM earnings up, dividend declared
By: Martin Creamer 31st August 2020 The headline earnings of diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) increased by 6% to R5 534-million for the financial year to June 30. A final dividend of R7 a share is declared, in addition to the interim dividend of R5 a share, taking the total dividend for the 2020 financial... →
ARM executive chairperson Dr Patrice Motsepe
Analysts raise precious metals expansion opportunities for cash-flush Sibanye
By: Martin Creamer 30th August 2020 Mining analysts last week raised local platinum and gold expansion opportunities for cash-flush precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater, but Neal Froneman, the CEO of the superbly performing Johannesburg- and New York-listed company, expressed concern that South Africa’s current... →
Rhodium may turn out to be the metal of the decade – Northam
By: Martin Creamer 28th August 2020 Rhodium may turn out to be the metal of the decade, Northam CEO Paul Dunne said on Friday. Speaking at the JSE-listed company’s presentation of outstanding results, which saw the company shrug off the Covid-19 pandemic to report a record financial year in the 12 months to June 30, Dunne said... →
Glencore puts entire stake in Mopani on the table in talks with Zambia – sources
By: Reuters 28th August 2020 Glencore will likely sell its entire 73.1% stake in Zambia's Mopani Copper Mines to the government's mining investment arm ZCCM-IH rather than becoming a minority stakeholder, two sources with direct knowledge told Reuters. Zambia and Swiss-based Glencore are at "cross purposes" over Mopani,... →
High-flying Northam shrugs off Covid to achieve record year
By: Martin Creamer 28th August 2020 Platinum group metals mining company Northam Platinum has shrugged off the Covid-19 pandemic to report a record financial year in the 12 months to June 30. The JSE-listed company, headed by CEO Paul Dunne, on Friday reported its best ever revenue of R17.8-billion, record operating profit of... →
Paul Dunne
Company to provide energy storage for local mines
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 The local mining sector is becoming more open to implementing new technologies in terms of energy solutions, as they can make mining operations more efficient, productive and cost effective, states microgrid and energy solutions provider Hitachi ABB Power Grids MD Malvin Naicker. Hitachi ABB... →
Higher energy efficiency can save costs for miners
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 Local energy organisation the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) GM Barry Bredenkamp states that South Africa’s mining sector can continue to explore cost-saving measures through increased energy efficiency. Local miners face many challenges, including rising energy... →
Logistics company branches out
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 Local logistics services supplier Mixcorp is including renewable-energy technology suited to the mining industry in the scope of its research and development (R&D) department to add renewables-related logistical services to its offering. Mixcorp special scientific adviser Dr Godfrey Gandawa... →
Mining waste can boost alternative-fuels prospects
By: Cameron Mackay 28th August 2020 Certain wastes in the mining sector present an opportunity to create alternative fuels, which can alleviate the energy supply challenges in the local industry, says waste management solutions provider Interwaste. Repurposing waste for energy purposes can also reduce the reliance on landfills and... →
Pandemic prevents further engagement on housing draft
28th August 2020 A call for further engagement with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) regarding the 2019 Draft Review of Housing and Living Conditions Standard has stalled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown in South Africa. The draft standard requires that mines... →
Sibanye-Stillwater earnings soar 718%, R1.3bn dividend declared
By: Martin Creamer 27th August 2020 Precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater has reported sensational half-year results on Covid-defying increased production from all operating segments The Johannesburg- and New York-listed company, headed by CEO Neal Froneman, has declared a R1.3-billion interim dividend on free cash... →
Neal Froneman
Minerals Council says morality must be put at forefront of recovery, growth
By: Marleny Arnoldi 27th August 2020 The Minerals Council South Africa has implored President Cyril Ramaphosa and law enforcement authorities to act urgently against those within government, business and other citizens who have looted public funds, incluing those intended to alleviate the impact of Covid-19. This plea by the... →
South Africa’s instability still curbing mining capex – Master Drilling
By: Martin Creamer 27th August 2020 Drilling company Master Drilling, which is operating in 23 countries, does not foresee significant fixed capital being spent in South Africa, even though the company is finding strong demand pull in other main mining jurisdictions and earned most of its half-year revenue and highest profit margin... →
High-flying DRDGold expecting nigh sevenfold earnings rocket
By: Martin Creamer 26th August 2020 Surface gold mining company DRDGold is expecting half-year earnings per share to rocket nearly sevenfold. In a trading statement released on Wednesday, the company, headed by CEO Niël Pretorius, indicated earnings per share of 82.5 c for the financial year to June 30, compared with 11.8 c for the... →
Master Drilling aligning with opencast mines going underground in changing world
By: Martin Creamer 26th August 2020 South Africa-based drilling company Master Drilling, which is active in 23 countries, is aligning itself with the transitioning global requirement of opencast mines going underground. “As the world is changing, so are the mines,” said Master Drilling technology director Koos Jordaan at the... →
Third of labour force let go – Master Drilling
By: Martin Creamer 25th August 2020 The Covid-19 crisis resulted in drilling company Master Drilling having to let go a third of its labour force in the world, Master Drilling CEO Danie Pretorius said on Tuesday. Fochville-based Master Drilling provides drilling services to the mining, civil engineering and building construction... →
Appea urges changes to boost oil and gas sector
By: Esmarie Iannucci 25th August 2020 The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (Appea) has urged the federal government to extend the Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive (JMEI) to the oil and gas sector. In its pre-Budget submission, Appea also recommended four other reforms, including making salary costs... →
Congo grants new export ban waivers for copper, cobalt, tin
By: Reuters 25th August 2020 Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday gave mining companies an indefinite waiver to an export ban on cobalt hydroxide and carbonate, as well as tin, tungsten, and tantalum concentrates after meeting the country's biggest miners in Kinshasa. The mines ministry also announced an export ban... →
Anglo American Platinum to transfer R2bn value to communities
By: Martin Creamer 25th August 2020 Platinum group metals mining and marketing company Anglo American Platinum on Tuesday announced shared value worth R2-billion for host and labour-sending communities one year early as a result of recent strong share price performance. The settlement will result in R2-billion of value transferring... →
Finnish authority says Koncar owes €120m
By: Marleny Arnoldi 24th August 2020 The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FFSA) has ordered Aim-listed Afarak Group COO Dr Danko Koncar to pay €120-million to the State of Finland. This follows after Koncar failed to comply with obligations imposed on him in the FFSA decision to publish a mandatory bid referred to in the... →
Glencore part of giant leap to transform informal cobalt mining
By: Martin Creamer 24th August 2020 Eight concerns, including diversified mining and marketing company Glencore, have joined forces to transform the informal mining of cobalt for the better. Full implementation would take five years and would begin in mines in Kasulu and Kamilombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the... →
Industry welcomes new water management tool
By: Darren Parker 21st August 2020 The uptake of a tool to assist the mining sector in implementing the principles of water conservation and water demand management (WC/WDM), has been “overwhelmingly positive”, Minerals Council South Africa head of environment Stephinah Mudau tells Mining Weekly. The WC/WDM self-assessment... →
ACCURATE SELF-ASSESSMENT The new tool assesses water requirements and the level of water reuse and recycling required, thereby reducing treatment costs
Getting best out of mining starts with policy certainty, says Gold Fields' Holland
By: Martin Creamer 20th August 2020 Getting the best out of South Africa’s mining sector starts with policy certainty, said Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland on Thursday. Following the Johannesburg- and New York-listed company’s presentation of outstanding half-year results in spite of Covid, Holland said this in response to Mining... →
High-flying Gold Fields' profit soars, half-year dividend up
By: Martin Creamer 20th August 2020 Covid notwithstanding, gold mining company Gold Fields saw its profit soar in the six months to June 30 and the half-year dividend declared equated to last year’s full-year dividend. The Johannesburg- and New York-listed company, headed by CEO Nick Holland, announced attributable profit for the... →
Nick Holland
Electra Mining Africa 2020 going digital with Connect – and it’s free of charge
By: Martin Creamer 20th August 2020 The Electra Mining Africa Connect week will enable exhibitors to promote their products and services free of charge alongside industry-related informative webinars, media activations and product showcase opportunities from September 7 to 11. For the first time in 48 years, Electra Mining Africa... →
WA moves to secure local gas supply
By: Esmarie Iannucci 18th August 2020 The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (Appea) has blasted the Western Australian government’s decision to revise policy in order to secure domestic gas supply. The state government this week unveiled the changes to the Western Australian Domestic Gas Policy, preventing... →
Afrimat to acquire AMSA, other shareholders' interests in Northern Cape iron-ore projects
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 17th August 2020 JSE-listed ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has reached an agreement to sell its 25% shareholding in Coza Mining, held through subsidiary Oakwood Trading, to Afrimat. Coza’s principal activities are the exploration and prospecting for iron-ore and manganese on three properties in the Northern Cape. →
Encouraging exploration would deliver enormous opportunities for SA – Bristow
By: Martin Creamer 17th August 2020 Encouraging exploration in South Africa would deliver enormous opportunities, says Barrick Gold president and CEO Dr Mark Bristow, a world leader in exploration success. Bristow was commenting on the call for mining exploration to be encouraged, made last month by the economic transformation... →
Orion sees N Cape as ‘dripping roast’ as Prieska project declared 'shovel ready'
By: Martin Creamer 17th August 2020 Orion Minerals CEO Errol Smart is over the moon about the granting of the final mining right for the Prieska copper/zinc resource, near the Northern Cape town of Copperton – and it comes with exciting exploration rights included. “We’re extremely pleased that the final regulatory hurdle for the... →
Proposed mining tax amendments could have far reaching, unintended consequences, says firm
By: Simone Liedtke 14th August 2020 In line with announcements made by National Treasury in the 2020 Budget Review in February, the 2020 Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (DTLAB) proposes amendments to the Income Tax Act (ITA) with the aim of limiting the entitlement to the favourable mining capital expenditure (capex) allowance... →
Sustainability measures, partnerships to ensure sector’s longevity
By: Mamaili Mamaila 14th August 2020 As the research by the Global Battery Alliance (GBA) found, the demand for batteries is expected to increase 19 times by 2030, which constitutes one of the highest purchase orders the mining industry has seen to date. →
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