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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
13th September 2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping will, on October 1, deliver a major speech to mark 70 years since the official founding of the People’s Republic of China. The speech will be accompanied by a national... 


FROM OPENCAST TO UNDERGROUND:
FROM OPENCAST TO UNDERGROUND:
6th September 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Chilean president Sebastian Pinera cut the ribbon at the inauguration of the Chuquicamata underground mine of Codelco, at Antofagasta, Chile, last month. After 104 years of opencast mining, the... 


SCRAP OVER ALLOWANCE
SCRAP OVER ALLOWANCE
6th September 2019

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula, pictured above, launched the revised taxi recapitalisation programme (TRSA) last month at Elandsfontein-based scrapping company Anthus Service 84, which is owned... 


SINGLE-CHANEL MARKETING:
SINGLE-CHANEL MARKETING:
30th August 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Canadian fertiliser company Nutrien last month gave a rare tour of its underground Cory potash, which is located some 20 km west of Saskatoon. Production of red potash resumed in January following... 


SHOW & TELL
SHOW & TELL
30th August 2019

South American airline group Latam Airlines showcased the newest addition to its fleet – an Airbus A350 XWB – which will operate between Johannesburg, South Africa, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The... 


JOURNEY TO THE TOP:
JOURNEY TO THE TOP:
23rd August 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Twelve years after applying for a mining right, Sepfluor opened the R1.7-billion Nokeng Fluorspar mine and concentrator plant, which will ramp up to full commercial-scale production by the end of... 


WAITING ON THE PLATFORM
WAITING ON THE PLATFORM
23rd August 2019

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa has set up a ‘war room’ in a bid to improve Metrorail’s notoriously unreliably and increasingly unsafe service. The war room, which is based in... 


IMPLATS HYDROGEN FUELLING STATION:
IMPLATS HYDROGEN FUELLING STATION:
16th August 2019 By: Martin Creamer

IMPLATS HYDROGEN FUELLING STATION: Platinum group metals mining, refining and marketing company Impala Platinum (Implats) has a hydrogen refuelling station at its refinery in Springs, which is used... 


UMBRELLA RESISTANCE
UMBRELLA RESISTANCE
16th August 2019

A man holding an umbrella looks down on demonstrators participating in a financial workers' 'flash mob' protest at Chater Garden in the Central district of Hong Kong, China, earlier this month.... 


COPPER MINING IN ECUADOR:
COPPER MINING IN ECUADOR:
9th August 2019 By: Martin Creamer

A view of the now-operating Chinese-owned Mirador mining project in Tundayme, southern Ecuador, where output began last month. This is an outcome of President Lenin Moreno’s effort to boost the... 


TROUBLE SHOOTING
TROUBLE SHOOTING
9th August 2019

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan speaking to Eskom Chairperson Jabu Mabuza at the State-owned utility’s results presentation at Megawatt Park last week. Mabuza, who will play the joint... 


RESIDENTS SEE RED AT IRON-ORE PORT
RESIDENTS SEE RED AT IRON-ORE PORT
2nd August 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Residents, mining companies and the state government have for long been tussling over the effect on people’s health of the red dust generated by the transfer of iron-ore at Port Hedland, in... 


BRIGHT SPOT
BRIGHT SPOT
2nd August 2019

The automotive industry remains one of the few industrial-strategy bright spots, with original equipment manufacturers continuing to invest in domestic production. Last month, Ford Motor Company of... 


SOUNDTRACK TO OUR BETTER LIVES
SOUNDTRACK TO OUR BETTER LIVES
26th July 2019

Johnny Clegg, who died this month at the age of 66, was one of those exceptional South Africans who was able to breakdown barriers, while simultaneously building a prototype for a new way of living... 


HEAVY CANADIAN METAL:
HEAVY CANADIAN METAL:
19th July 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Employees assemble a mining vehicle at Arva Industries’ heavy machinery manufacturing factory in St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, ahead of Statistics Canada last month reporting a 0.8%. overall April... 


ONE GIANT LEAP
ONE GIANT LEAP
19th July 2019

Fifty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the fist human beings to leave their footprints on the lunar surface, while fellow astronaut Michael... 


PROTESTERS WANT FASTER CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION:
PROTESTERS WANT FASTER CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION:
12th July 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Hundreds of climate-change protestors, dissatisfied with Germany’s timeframe of becoming carbon neutral by 2050, last month stormed into the pit of the Garzweiler opencast brown coal lignite mine... 


WEATHER WORRIES
WEATHER WORRIES
12th July 2019

Mumbai was hit, earlier this month, by what was described as the heaviest downpour to afflict the Indian city since 2005. The resultant flooding delayed trains and planes and spurred the city’s... 


COTTON ON
COTTON ON
5th July 2019

The protectionist policies pursued by various trading partners in recent years has hurt South Africa’s cotton industry. However, as can be seen from the above photograph, taken in Limpopo earlier... 


SUN AND WIND BECKON:
SUN AND WIND BECKON:
28th June 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe (above) has received a broad mandate as head of the merged portfolios of mineral resources and energy, a weighty task in the light of South... 


NET ZERO
NET ZERO
28th June 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking to build momentum within the European Union (EU) about moving toward adopting a goal for zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the... 


TAILINGS TRAGEDY:
TAILINGS TRAGEDY:
21st June 2019 By: Martin Creamer

A scene at the Hpakant area of Kachin state in the north of Myanmar, where a mine mudlside buried 54 miners in April. The mud flowed down from a collapsed tailings dam. Hpakant, 950 km north of... 


LAST STRAW
LAST STRAW
21st June 2019

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that single-use plastics, such as straws, will be banned from as early as 2021. As part of the crackdown, plastics manufacturers and... 


ILLEGAL MINING DECIMATING RAINFOREST:
ILLEGAL MINING DECIMATING RAINFOREST:
14th June 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Peruvian president Martin Vizcarra is taking firm steps to eradicate illegal mining in this deforested area of the Amazon jungle, at La Pampa, Madre de Dios, in southeast Peru. Shown near abandoned... 


HOLISTIC APPROACH
HOLISTIC APPROACH
14th June 2019

Government has given an assurance that South Arica’s carbon tax, implemented on June 1, has been designed not to raise revenue but to change the behaviour of plants such as AfriSam’s Dudfield... 


MINERALS COUNCIL PRESIDENT RAISES CONCERNS:
MINERALS COUNCIL PRESIDENT RAISES CONCERNS:
7th June 2019 By: Martin Creamer

During his address at last month’s Minerals Council South Africa annual general meeting, re-elected Minerals Council president Mxolisi Mgojo praised the commitment of mining companies to solving... 


ECONOMIC EXPECTATIONS
ECONOMIC EXPECTATIONS
7th June 2019

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was re-elected to office in May with a landslide majority. Expectations are for Modi to push through land and labour reforms after his Bharatiya Janata Party... 


STRANGE ESKOM CONTRADICTION:
STRANGE ESKOM CONTRADICTION:
31st May 2019 By: Martin Creamer

State electricity utility Eskom has the strange contradiction of over-staffing in some parts of it and under-staffing where the much-needed actual electricity generation takes place, Public... 


MEGA LINER
MEGA LINER
31st May 2019 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Spectrum of the Seas cruise ship is the newest and largest ship operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises in Asia. Pictured above berthed at the Marina Bay Cruise Center in Singapore, the 170 000 t... 


DESTINED FOR DECOMMISSIONING:
DESTINED FOR DECOMMISSIONING:
24th May 2019 By: Martin Creamer

A large excavator is seen operating in Germany’s Garzweiler opencast mining area, in front of the lignite-fired Frimmersdorf and Neurath power stations, owned by Rheinisch-Westfälisches... 


RICH PICKINGS
RICH PICKINGS
24th May 2019

Visitors walk through the exhibition area at Grain SA's NAMPO Harvest Day in Bothaville, South Africa, earlier this month. The show is one of the southern hemisphere’s largest agricultural... 


EMERALD MINING:
EMERALD MINING:
17th May 2019 By: Martin Creamer

Gemstone mining and marketing company Fura Gems is set on introducing modern mining to Coscuez, Colombia, where it is involved in emerald mining. Coscuez has yielded emeralds for more than 300... 


WASTE TO POWER
17th May 2019

A grapple crane transports waste at the Entsorga West Virginia resource recovery facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in the US. The facility, launched earlier this year, recovers biomass,... 


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