Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.
This week:
Anglo achieves resilient performance in a tough year
Implats in final stages of approving R10bn worth of new platinum projects
And, South African miners to focus on competitiveness and embrace 4IR to thrive
As much of the world was tested to its limits by the Covid-19 pandemic during 2020, the resilience of diversified miner Anglo American's diversified business, along with strong metals prices in the latter months of the year, resulted in Ebitda of $9.8-billion and a mining Ebitda margin of 43%.
Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani:
Platinum group metals mining and marketing company Implats is in the final stages of approving two exciting new platinum projects that tick all the boxes of the company’s strategic intent.
Implats CEO Nico Muller:
For the South African mining industry to thrive, it needs to focus on its competitiveness and it should embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
UJ Vice Chancellor and principal professor Tshilidzi Marwala:
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