Bushveld Complex

On March 31, 2026, just after 14:00, the detonation of 650 kg of explosives broke through the first rocks to enable access to underground resources at the Tharisa mine, located on the western limb... 

Positive first-quarter mine operating income has heartened South African platinum group metals (PGM) and chrome mining company Eastplats, which reported on Friday, May 15 that it will continue to... 

Australia-listed Vanadium Resources (VR8) has announced two new developments towards the company’s VR8 Steelpoortdrift vanadium project in South Africa becoming a long-term vanadium supplier.... 

Southern Palladium has advanced definitive feasibility study drilling, metallurgical optimisation and mine design work. 

Tharisa Minerals had concluded a five-year contract with Cementation Africa for underground mining development and construction works at the Tharisa mine. 

Eland’s ramp-up is continuing on schedule.  

Vanadium Resources Limited has executed a nonbinding offtake term sheet with USV for 100% of the vanadium-bearing slag to be produced from the proposed V-Iron plant 

Sylvania Platinum’s current focus at Volspruit is securing the required licences and authorisations for potential future mining, including the water-use licence.  

Platinum Group Metals' near-term objective remains to advance Waterberg to a development and construction decision, including the arrangement of construction financing and concentrate offtake... 

The ground-based frequency-domain electromagnetic (FDEM) survey at Aim-listed URU Metals’ Zeb nickel project, located on the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, in South Africa, has begun. The... 

VR8 has executed a nonbinding offtake term sheet with US Vanadium Holding Company for 100% of the vanadium-bearing slag to be produced from the proposed V-Iron plant 

A study to complete the project and to ramp up production will be finalised in the fourth quarter of the 2026 financial year. 

Australia-listed Vanadium Resources (VR8) has announced two new developments towards the company’s VR8 Steelpoortdrift vanadium project in South Africa becoming a long-term vanadium supplier.... 

Results from metallurgical testwork at the project have indicated that up to one-fifth of future revenues could be derived from chrome. 

Results from metallurgical test work at the Bengwenyama platinum group metals (PGM) project in South Africa’s Limpopo province indicate that up to a fifth of Southern Palladium’s future revenues... 

Marking an historic milestone for underground mining in South Africa, the successful commissioning of the FLP1410 drill rig at a chrome mine on the eastern limb of South Africa’s Bushveld Complex... 

Underground development at the mine officially started on March 31, 2026. 

TSX- and NYSE-listed Platinum Group Metals (PTM) says it is investigating opportunities to collaborate and co-invest with smaller furnace operators in South Africa who are interested in modifying... 

Tharisa started its underground mining strategy with the first blast at the mine on March 31, 2026.