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On-The-Air (14/05/2021) 
By: Martin Creamer 14th May 2021 The fact that New York City is to use platinum to help it decarbonise its buildings is great news; the iron-ore price is soaring to unprecedented heights and South Africa stands to benefit; and gold mining companies are going all out to be greener and cleaner. →
Gold Fields going greener and cleaner across broad front 
By: Martin Creamer 7th May 2021 Gold mining company Gold Fields, which this week announced the board’s green light for a 40 MW solar photovoltaic plant at the South Deep mine, near Carletonville, intends taking short- medium- and long-term steps to lower emissions in underground mining in general and at South Deep in... →
Gold Fields ramping up climate change mitigation measures
By: Donna Slater 30th April 2021 Gold miner Gold Fields derived 5% of its group electricity from renewable sources in 2020. It plans to further ramp this up in the coming years, its 2020 Climate Change Report shows. At its Agnew operation, in Australia, the miner derived 57% of its electricity from renewable sources, mostly... →
Tirupati Graphite to raise £10m to fast-track development plan
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 16th April 2021 Specialist graphite producer Tirupati Graphite, with operations in Madagascar and India, has announced a placing with institutional and other investors of 11-million ordinary shares to raise an aggregate gross amount of £10-million. Certain directors of the company are subscribing for shares... →
Ivanhoe appoints energy veteran as chair of Kamoa Copper
By: Marleny Arnoldi 9th April 2021 TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines has appointed Ben Munanga to succeed Louis Watum as chairperson. Kamoa Copper is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) operating company of the joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines, Zijin Mining Group, Crystal River and the government of the DRC. →
Ghana promotes local content after discovery
By: Mc'Kyla Nortje 2nd April 2021 Ghana’s Parliament passed into law the Minerals and Mining Local Content and Local Participation Regulations in December 2020, which is timely following the drive to industrialise the country’s economy and, in particular, explore its bauxite reserves. The regulations set out the levels of local... →
Northam pays most tax as growth strategy heads for 8 500 jobs boost
By: Martin Creamer 23rd March 2021 “We’ve made the single-largest tax payment in the history of the company,” Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne said during last week’s presentation of 74%-higher headline half-year earnings. The JSE-listed platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company’s half-year contribution to the fiscus topped... →
Northam Platinum building 10 MW solar power plant at Zondereinde smelter
By: Martin Creamer 19th March 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company Northam Platinum said on Friday that it was designing and building a 10 MW solar energy plant for the company’s smelter at its Zondereinde mine, in Limpopo province. Located on the northern end of the western limb of the Bushveld Complex, near the town... →
New report highlights decade of falling electricity production in South Africa 
By: Terence Creamer 11th March 2021 A new Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) report offers a sobering picture of declining electricity system production and demand between 2010 and 2020 – a trend that was amplified further during Covid-hit 2020, when demand slumped by a sharp 5.1%, or 11.8 TWh, to a decade low... →
Platinum group metals playing role in Switzerland’s green hydrogen roll-out
By: Martin Creamer 19th January 2021 Platinum group metals (PGMs), which South Africa hosts in greater abundance than any other country on earth, are playing important catalytic roles in Switzerland’s green hydrogen and green truck rollout, which is now under way. Mining Weekly can today report that proton exchange membrane (PEM)... →
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