Shanghai Platinum Week 2026 has served to highlight that platinum group metals (PGMs) are fundamentally key to the delivery of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan to 2030. China has earmarked close to... 

To integrate automation into its hydraulic and pneumatic solutions, industrial equipment manufacturer Parker Hannifin combines motion control, sensing, electronic controls and connected diagnostics... 

The new elution circuit and smelt house facility at DRDGOLD's Far West Gold Recoveries is performing to specification. “The initial capital estimate was met, and we came in on time and within... 

Record gold prices are driving mining companies to accelerate exploration, resource expansion and project development, with portable analytical technologies increasingly being used to support... 

Successful removal of coarse waste is beneficial in that it reduces power requirements in the milling circuit, lowers water needs, and increases platinum group metal (PGM) feed grades. With... 

South Africa’s national minerals research organisation Mintek has highlighted the value of conducting bottleneck-exposing comminution circuit surveys at platinum group metals (PGM) processing... 

London-listed critical minerals exploration and development company Aterian says field operations have started under its recently established strategic joint venture with AI and geology company... 

As a global producer of materials across the aluminium value chain, Alcoa Corporation is well positioned to operate South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium business into the future, South32 COO Africa... 

Gold-from-mine-waste company DRDGOLD is looking at organic growth of 40% in throughput and 30% in output, using internally funded cash flows and infrastructure that can facilitate additional... 

Aim-listed Botswana Minerals has announced that an AI-driven review of legacy geological records identified primary copper sulphide and altered copper minerals in historical drill cores from holes... 

Platinum group metals (PGMs) have several properties that make them critical everyday-life minerals, Mintek supervisor applied chemical analysis Nehemiah Mukwevho explicated during his presentation... 

South Africa's national mineral research organisation Mintek on Friday, June 26 spelt out how it can add value to South Africa’s platinum group metals (PGMs) industry. At its corporate head office... 

As demand for critical minerals continues to increase globally, the need to explore for and identify mineral resources quicker than before has mounted, raising the need for integrated... 

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer notes that Sibanye-Stillwater’s CEO has declares the company’s South African platinum assets the ‘world’s best’; he discusses Deputy President Paul Mashatile's... 

The construction of the first phase of the Nyanza Light Metals plant to advance ilmenite up the value curve in the form of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment has begun at the Richards Bay Industrial... 

Mining contractors are increasingly adopting precision mechanical ripping technologies as South African opencast operations face growing pressure to reduce the environmental, social and operational... 

Surface mining equipment attachment solutions developed by earthmoving equipment attachments manufacturer Machinery Contractors are aimed at reducing worker exposure to hazardous areas while... 

A motor grader range engineered and manufactured by South African heavy equipment manufacturer Bell Equipment received the Innovation for Surface Mining Award at the Mining Equipment Manufacturers... 

As part of a working visit to China, South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile has met with a key industry organisation that promotes the development and adoption of hydrogen energy and fuel... 

Impressive renewable-energy advances were graphically displayed by coal major Exxaro during its Capital Day on Monday, June 22. The first was a wind turbine involving 600 m3 of concrete in a 25 m... 

In a year where change is proving to be rapid and consequential, the major upcoming Shanghai Platinum Week is bound to connect key trends across the platinum group metals (PGMs) value chain as it... 

South Africa's platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Valterra Platinum this week affirmed sustainability as being at the heart of the future of mining when it hosted its... 

South Africa’s supply status in the rapidly evolving and increasingly geopolitically fragmented battery materials market has taken a major leap forward with the completion of the construction by... 

South Africa’s leading mining exhibition Electra Mining Africa 2026 is set to be the largest edition of the exhibition to date, with organisers expanding the event footprint to a record 44 000 m²... 

The Zandkopsdrift rare earths project in South Africa’s endowed Northern Cape was highlighted on day two of the Junior Indaba, which also learnt of the rapid forward momentum of West Wits Mining’s... 

Enticing support for first movers into green hydrogen project development is on offer via a first-of-a-kind government-led framework designed to assess the readiness and bankability of green... 

The phased rollout of the new online mining licensing system – the cadastre – is progressing steadily, with Western Cape applications being received and processed online, Parliament was informed on... 

Look out for PyroFuZA. Those eight letters have the potential to make best use of South Africa’s natural resources and restore South Africa’s value-adding power, which, in turn, can help to foot... 

As a global supplier of engineering solutions for minerals and mining applications, Weir is preparing to showcase its range of solutions for the mining sector at the West African Mining and Power...