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More succinct licence processes are needed to attract exploration investment in South Africa, Pearl Gray Equity and Research managing partner Steve Booyens said on Friday. “There are loads of...
Oil and gas major Woodside on Friday reported a fatality at the North Rankin Complex, offshore Western Australia. The company reported that a contractor was critically injured during work activity...
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The Cabinda phosphate project, in Angola, has been granted key environmental approval licenses for construction activities, owner Minbos Resources said on Friday. The company told shareholders...
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Carbon reduction company First Mode purchased 80 Bordline energy storage system (ESS), 2.6 MWh lithium-ion battery systems from electrification and automation corporation ABB in May, to help power...
Having noted the industry’s need for more advanced slope stability, Seequent, the Bentley subsurface company, launched its advanced slope stability analysis tool, SLOPE3D, which empowers...
The Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) has come a long way since being established in 1986 to fund and implement the South African portion of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), gaining...
The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) is calling for urgent regulatory and government action on the loadshedding crisis in South Africa, fearing that the impact on an already hard-hit...
Pan-African digital connectivity solutions company Bayobab, formerly MTN GlobalConnect, has entered into a strategic pan-African connectivity partnership with Microsoft to accelerate digital...
As the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) works to complete its South Africa Connect (SA Connect) programme, it is preparing to direct the State Information Technology...
One of the ironies about South Africa’s use of competitive bidding for just about all public procurement, from the purchase of office stationery to diesel locomotives, is that it hardly ever...
Wesizwe Platinum has started the commissioning of the mine's processing plant.
Bellevue Gold will partner with independent power producer Zenith Energy to establish a hybrid power station at its namesake gold mine.
Bunker Hill Mining Corp is restarting one of the most storied base metal and silver mines in US history.
Kambalda is on track to achieve its nameplate capacity of 600 000 t/y.
The construction phase of the new Gugulethu Colliery is progressing.
Sandfire Resources has produced its first copper concentrate from the Motheo mine.
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is recommending that the next edition of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which is currently under review, caters for the building of between 50 GW and...
Macrotrends put South Africa’s population at 60,414,495 in 2023, a 0.87% increase from the previous year. This increase in population sustains the relevance of the simple thesis – the demand for...
The European Union (EU) is in negotiations with Democratic Republic of Congo, a leading source of battery minerals, and aims for talks with other African countries to shore up its supplies of...
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is convinced that mining companies can supplement State-owned Eskom’s supply of electricity, and that this would be critical for narrowing the...
A definitive feasibility study (DFS) into the Swanson tantalum/lithium project, in Namibia, has estimated would produce at an average 12 500 t/m rate over a mine-life of eight years. ASX-listed...
Oil and gas major Woodside has awarded offshore decommissioning contracts for the subsea infrastructure at the Enfield, Griffin, Stybarrow and Echo Yodel oil and gas fields offshore Western...
Lithium miner Sayona Mining has completed the bookbuild for its A$200-million underwritten placement, priced at 18c each. The company earlier this month announced the fully underwritten...
Renewable hydrogen, future facing minerals processing and shipbuilding and sustainment has been identified as the three industries targeted by the Western Australian government to transform the...
ASX-listed Australian Vanadium has executed a grant agreement with the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, providing the company with a A$49-million grant under the Modern Manufacturing...
Platinum miner Impala Platinum's subsidiary Marula Platinum is inviting independent power producers (IPPs) to submit expressions of interest for the supply and management of a 30 MW solar plant at...
In its first power purchase agreement, platinum group metals, green metals and gold producer Sibanye-Stillwater has achieved financial close for an 89 MW wind energy project. Under the terms of the...
Chinese President Xi Jinping met his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, on Friday in Beijing as the two countries seek to relaunch a partnership worth tens of...
The construction phase of the new Gugulethu Colliery is in full swing. “We’ve started working on the box cut with the anticipation that first coal will be extracted sometime around July/August this...
Dual-listed Pan African Resources (PAR) has reduced its production guidance to 175 000 oz for the year ended June 30, citing loadshedding and lower-than-expected ramp-up of operations at the...
Mining major Rio Tinto has awarded ASX-listed NRW Holdings a A$54-million contract at its Western Range mine site in the Pilbara. Under the contract, NRW Holdings subsidiary Primero will be...
The Western Australian government on Friday announced that green ammonia and ammonium nitrate producers Kinara Power and Blue Diamond have become the first of six companies to agree to the key...
The federal and Queensland governments on Friday announced joint funding of some A$117-million for the further development of the Central Queensland Hydrogen (CQ-H2) project at Gladstone. The...
Singapore’s Keppel Corporation has joined the Central Queensland hydrogen (CQ-H2) project consortium to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project in Australia, and has inked a memorandum of...
Various technologies, such as tracking tags, closed circuit television cameras and thermal cameras, Wireless Sensor Networks, mobile apps and drones, are being used for intelligence and...
The organisers of Commercial UAV Expo, the world’s leading commercial drone trade show and conference, have announced an impressive list of more than 135 top unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)...
Owing to the increasing amount of mining activity expected in Botswana – particularly amid increasing demand for minerals such as coal and battery metals – specialist mining services provider...
Since its establishment in 2021, risk mitigation solutions provider Africa Speciality Risk (ASR) has set its sights on consolidating its underwriting activities in South Africa as part of its...
This year’s Big 5 Construct Southern Africa is being held with the aim of driving economic growth, recovery and transformation within Southern Africa’s construction industry. The Big 5 Construct...
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