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Critical metals for low-carbon economy being studied across 12 universities 
By: Martin Creamer 30th March 2023 A consortium across a dozen South African universities has the spotlight on critical metals for a low-carbon future. At a time when the mining world is focused firmly on the availability of critical metals to arrest global temperature increases, South Africa’s Centre of Excellence for Integrated... →
Australia risks losing pole position in critical minerals race
By: Reuters 30th March 2023 Australia is at risk of losing its head start in critical minerals processing because it has not yet laid down a national strategy, even as other governments are splashing out incentives to grab market share and bolster security. Supplier of nearly half of the world's lithium, Australia is also... →
Mining needs truth-and-reconciliation approach to ESG, says Rifle-Shot’s Naidoo
By: Martin Creamer 29th March 2023 Mining companies need to approach environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles on a truth and reconciliation footing and be honest about where they are on a scale of one to 10, says Rifle-Shot Performance business development director Dilley Naidoo. Naidoo, who spoke to Mining Weekly on... →
Ironveld FCF buyout now unconditional
By: Creamer Media Reporter 29th March 2023 Aim-listed Ironveld reports that its subsidiary Ironveld Smelting's acquisition of Ferrochrome Furnaces (FCF), in Rustenburg, South Africa, has become unconditional. FCF will, in accordance with the Companies Act of South Africa, be taken out of business rescue in the coming days and the... →
Platinum group metals can add million South African jobs plus R8-trillion to economy
By: Martin Creamer 28th March 2023 Collaborative marketing of platinum group metals (PGMs) has the potential to add a million more South African jobs and contribute R8-trillion more to the economy as the world greens and lowers carbon intensity. The combination of green hydrogen displacing natural gas and fuel cell electric... →
Ministers agree to coordinate critical minerals efforts
By: Esmarie Iannucci 24th March 2023 Australia’s federal, state and territory resources and mining ministers have agreed to coordinate efforts to support the development of Australia’s critical minerals sector following a critical minerals roundtable in Perth. Resources Minister Madeleine King said on Friday that the development of... →
RFB offering opportunities to Australian Vanadium
By: Esmarie Iannucci 22nd March 2023 ASX-listed Australian Vanadium is evaluating the economic opportunities that vanadium redox batteries could offer the company. →
Safety environment that almost guarantees that people come first is a must, says Naidoo
By: Martin Creamer 20th March 2023 Mine safety is absolutely essential. Stopping injury and fatality in mines just has to happen. How can South Africa achieve the zero harm that is needed? This was Mining Weekly’s opening question to Dilley Naidoo, the director of business development at Rifle-Shot Performance. (Also watch... →
Exxaro well-advanced on own-mine renewables plan, says new energy MD
By: Martin Creamer 17th March 2023 Coal miner Exxaro has advanced considerably on progressing the generation of renewables to supply electricity to its own mining operations, newly appointed Exxaro MD for Energy Leon Groenewald said in response to Mining Weekly during Thursday’s media conference at which the JSE-listed coal,... →
Banking has crucial role to play in enabling mining to transition to clean energy, says Nedbank CIB
By: Martin Creamer 14th March 2023 The banking sector has a crucial role to play in enabling mining companies to transition to clean energy fully, says Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) principal for sustainable finance solutions Telvina Naidoo. “Innovative funding structures and sustainable-finance solutions can help... →
Re-pursue exploration to help re-build South Africa’s economy, says business booster 
By: Martin Creamer 13th March 2023 Let us re-pursue the exploration investment that catalysed South Africa’s economic growth more than a century ago as a means of helping to rebuild South Africa’s struggling economy. That is among the ardent messages put over by mining sector performance enhancer Dilley Naidoo, the the director of... →
We stand ready to support renewable energy, says Standard Bank
By: Martin Creamer 10th March 2023 Standard Bank says it is at the ready to support renewable energy and infrastructure projects. The bank, which this week delivered record 37%-higher headline 2022 earnings of R34.2-billion and paid the highest dividend in its 161-year history, expresses the view that meaningful structural reform... →
Another just energy transition drive hits high spots in form of Just Green AfrH2ica
By: Martin Creamer 9th March 2023 Yet another just energy transition initiative has come flying out of its starting blocks in the form of Just Green AfrH2ica, the promoter of the just energy transition to green hydrogen in Africa, the continent with the distinctive potential to benefit exponentially from low-cost renewable energy... →
Platinum-based hydrogen fuel cell vehicles forecast to be TCO unrivalled by 2026/7
By: Martin Creamer 8th March 2023 The total cost of ownership (TCO) of platinum-based hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) is forecast to be less than that of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) by 2026, and less than that of internal combustion engines (ICEs) by around 2027, with an overall estimated 50% FCEV cost decline... →
Vecco starts work on vanadium battery facility
By: Esmarie Iannucci 8th March 2023 The Queensland government has welcomed the development of the A$26-million Townsville vanadium battery manufacturing facility being developed by Vecco Group, as Australia’s first commercial-scale vanadium flow battery electrolyte manufacturing facility. Vecco Group’s new facility will produce... →
Neometals improves economics of vanadium recovery project
By: Esmarie Iannucci 8th March 2023 ASX-listed Neometals has announced improved economics at its proposed vanadium recovery project (VRP1) in Finland, following the completion of a feasibility study. The feasibility study has highlighted a 40% increase in the project’s projected pre-tax net present value, which is now estimated at... →
Platinum market back in contango, big improvement of net investment expected – WPIC
By: Martin Creamer 8th March 2023 The World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) today publishes its Platinum Quarterly for the fourth quarter of 2022, full year 2022, and a revised forecast for 2023. After two years of significant surpluses the platinum market is forecast to move to a material deficit in 2023. The change from the... →
Australia leading the way in critical minerals - report
By: Esmarie Iannucci 7th March 2023 A new report by Geoscience Australia has shown that Australia’ was the world’s top lithium producer in 2021, and was among the top five global producer of 18 mineral commodities, including iron-ore, bauxite, gold, cobalt, mineral sands, rare earths, zinc and nickel. In the Identified Mineral... →
Work starts on A$5bn CopperString
By: Esmarie Iannucci 7th March 2023 Early works on the A$5-billion CopperString 2.0 project, in Queensland, is expected to start this year, with construction planned to start next year, the Queensland government said on Tuesday. The 1,100 km CopperString 2.0 project is expected to unlock Australia’s largest renewable energy zone... →
Turn energy, logistics threats into opportunities, African Rainbow Minerals CEO urges
By: Martin Creamer 6th March 2023 South Africa's energy and logistics threats should be turned into opportunities, says African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) CEO Mike Schmidt. Speaking to Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview following ARM’s presentation for 40% higher headline earnings at R5 171-million, Schmidt urged the country to never... →
Infrastructure backlog, waning service delivery driving people to cities – TIPS
By: Schalk Burger 6th March 2023 There is a massive infrastructure backlog in historic labour-sending regions, or former homelands, and the share of households with piped water inside the house has declined in the Free State, North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo since 1994, reflecting waning service delivery in these provinces.... →
Hydrogen economy continuing to build, Implats’ Sifiso Sibiya reports
By: Martin Creamer 3rd March 2023 Momentum in the hydrogen economy is continuing to build, Implats group executive refining and marketing Sifiso Sibiya reported when he presented an Implats slide outlining global market trends for the platinum group metals (PGM) of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company, which this week... →
Implats benefits from strong demand, R4.3bn allocated to energy, decarbonisation
By: Martin Creamer 2nd March 2023 Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Implats benefitted from strong demand for its primary products in the half-year to December 31, amid a robust rand PGMs pricing environment, which mitigated the financial impact of broad-based inflationary pressures, the JSE-listed company... →
Higher commodity prices failing to spur fixed mining investment
By: Martin Creamer 28th February 2023 The regulatory uncertainties and inability of the industry to transparently, quickly and efficiently apply for mining and prospecting rights in a corruption-free manner has had severe investment consequences, Minerals Council South Africa states in its Facts & Figures Pocketbook 2022. This is... →
Trackless mobile machine safety next big challenge, says Minerals Council
By: Martin Creamer 27th February 2023 Having last year achieved the lowest fall of ground fatalities ever, South African mining’s next big safety challenge is to achieve greater safety in the use of trackless mobile machines – rubber-tired vehicles that operate in underground mines without making use of rail tracks. In 2021, South... →
King hosts sit-down with critical minerals stakeholders
By: Esmarie Iannucci 24th February 2023 Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King this week met with key industry and community groups to discuss how to best develop Australia’s critical minerals sector. King said the roundtables discussed how governments could help attract investment and support the development of critical minerals... →
Closer alliance needed for critical minerals development - Minister
By: Esmarie Iannucci 23rd February 2023 Government and industry would need to work together to bring forward a new wave of investment to advance Australia’s critical minerals sector, federal Resources Minister Madelein King said this week. Speaking in Perth, King noted that Australia’s critical minerals major project pipeline... →
Minerals Council welcomes 125% energy tax break in Budget speech
By: Martin Creamer 22nd February 2023 Minerals Council South Africa welcomed the government’s intervention on Eskom’s debt and the financial encouragement to stimulate businesses building renewable energy projects by offering generous tax incentives as outlined in the 2023 Budget Speech. The Minerals Council believes there should be... →
Bushveld Electrolyte Company on track for first production
By: Donna Slater 21st February 2023 Integrated primary vanadium producer and energy storage solutions provider Bushveld Minerals reports that its South African vanadium electrolyte factory – Bushveld Electrolyte Company (Belco) – is on track for completion before the end of the first half of the year. The Belco plant is currently... →
Green steel to cut Scope 3, solar to cut Scope 2, hydrogen to cut Scope 1 – Kumba Iron Ore
By: Martin Creamer 21st February 2023 South Africa’s Kumba Iron Ore sees itself as a critical player in the decarbonisation journey. Regarding tricky Scope 3 emission reduction, the Anglo American company is partnering with top steelmakers Salzgitter, ThyssenKrupp and Nippon to cut its Scope 3; advancing fast towards generating its... →
South Africa’s hydrogen corridor will create 14 000 jobs, says Anglo Platinum CEO
By: Martin Creamer 20th February 2023 South Africa’s hydrogen corridor, which has been declared a strategic project, will create 14 000 jobs and consume 63 000 oz of platinum, Anglo American Platinum CEO Natascha Viljoen told Mining Weekly on Monday. Viljoen’s interview by Mining Weekly followed the JSE-listed company’s presentation... →
Anglo Platinum makes R131bn socioeconomic contribution, records best-ever safety year
By: Martin Creamer 20th February 2023 The contribution of platinum group metals (PGMs) company Anglo American Platinum to society in 2022 totalled R131-billion, made up mainly of taxes and royalties at R19-billion, salaries and wages at R15-billion, local procurement of R25-billion, capital investment of R17-billion and dividends of... →
Tivan strikes A$20m deal for Speewah
By: Esmarie Iannucci 20th February 2023 ASX-listed Tivan has struck A$20-million a deal with ASX-listed King River Resources to acquire the Speewah vanadium/titianium/iron project, in Western Australia. Under a binding term sheet signed between the two companies, Tivan would acquire all the issued capital of Speewah Mining, which owns... →
Opportunity to commercialise greenness of South Africa’s nuclear power, says South32
By: Martin Creamer 17th February 2023 Nuclear power is part of the green taxonomy in Europe, where South Africa places most of its aluminium products and where most of the price pressures on non-green aluminium are going to arise in the coming years. But, for some reason, nuclear energy is not part of the green taxonomy in South Africa. →
Green hydrogen moves by China, India boosting outlook for platinum group metals
By: Martin Creamer 14th February 2023 The firm embrace of the new green hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cell future by China and India is a huge twin boost for Southern Africa’s great platinum group metals (PGMs) endowment, Mining Weekly can today report. Hydrogen technologies have a special relevance for South Africa as most of the PGMs... →
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is intent on making India a global green hydrogen hub.
Sustainable mining companies can gain from sustainable finance trends – Webber Wentzel
By: Martin Creamer 13th February 2023 Mining companies that can demonstrate responsible and sustainable mining practices can set themselves up to take advantage of the current environmental social governance (ESG) and sustainable finance trends, says law firm Webber Wentzel. “In 2023, ESG will continue to gain regulatory traction... →
Webber Wentzel highlights funding opportunity for mining companies that are doing the right thing.
Just energy transition could spur R1.5-trillion green investment – Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
By: Martin Creamer 10th February 2023 Through the just energy transition investment plan, R1.5-trillion could be invested in South Africa over the next five years in new frontiers of renewable energy, green hydrogen and electric vehicles, says law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH). Moreover, with the national state of disaster being... →
Global renewable energy generation to hit 320 GW this year, Mining Indaba hears
By: Martin Creamer 9th February 2023 Renewable energy capacity will increase by 8% to 320 GW this year, Ivanhoe Mines founder and CEO Robert Friedland told the Investing in African Mining Indaba on Wednesday at an event themed on the comment of former US president John F Kennedy that the moon launch was being undertaken “not because... →
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