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Americas Gold and Silver to acquire Idaho mine for $65m
13th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

TSX- and NYSE America-listed Americas Gold and Silver on Thursday announced the acquisition of Crescent Silver, owner of the Crescent mine in Idaho’s Silver Valley, for a total of $65-million. The deal includes $20-million in cash and about... 


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Harmony Gold CEO Beyers Nel
Harmony celebrates fatality-free quarter, reports solid operational performance
13th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Gold and copper producer Harmony Gold Mining Company delivered a solid operational performance for the three months ended September 30 – the first quarter of its 2026 financial year – which CEO... 


AngloGold Ashanti's Geita mine in Tanzania.
Best prospects are within, AngloGold avers amid highlighting low-hanging Tanzania fruit
12th November 2025 By: Martin Creamer

AngloGold Ashanti is constantly coming up with the same answer during its continual assessment of where this 40 000-employee gold mining major can generate the most value.   “The answer is clear,”... 


Artisanal cobalt miners in the DRC
Congo produces first 1 000 t of traceable artisanal cobalt
Updated 2 hours 57 minutes ago By: Reuters

The State cobalt agency in Democratic Republic of Congo has produced its first 1,000 metric tons of traceable artisanal cobalt, a key step in formalizing the sector in a country that supplies much... 


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Deep Yellow appoints MD of its Namibian operations
13th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed uranium developer Deep Yellow has appointed Zebra Kasete Namibia MD, effective January 5.  In this role, he will support the construction of the Tumas project and be accountable for... 


Gold Fields CEO Mike Fraser
Gold Fields targeting incrementatal growth in output over the next five years
13th November 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

During a Capital Markets Day media conference call, on November 13, gold miner Gold Fields CEO Mike Fraser pointed out that the company was targeting incremental production growth over the next... 


A lithium mine in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe lithium miners seek VAT moratorium until end of 2026
13th November 2025 By: Bloomberg

Zimbabwean lithium miners have asked the government to defer the imposition of a tax on concentrates until the end of 2026, so they can raise capital to construct processing plants. The southern... 


China's copper exports boom on rising arbitrage, supply
13th November 2025 By: Reuters

Chinese copper exports are on pace to set a record in 2025, with October shipments set to exceed 100 000 metric tons for only the third time ever, as rising domestic supply and higher foreign... 


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High electricity prices to continue putting pressure on mining, smelting, says Minerals Council
13th November 2025 By: Schalk Burger

The improvement in the performance of State-owned Eskom’s ability to supply electricity and the uptick in Transnet’s operational performance bode well for mining, but the sector faces the threat of... 


Katanning gold project gains priority status under new WA approvals programme
13th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Western Australian government has selected Ausgold's Katanning gold project (KGP) to participate in its newly established Priority Approvals Programme, streamlining the project’s permitting... 


Austral’s Mt Kelly processing facility
New Frontier lodges mining lease for Big One copper deposit
13th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Copper developer New Frontier Minerals has lodged a mining lease application for the Big One copper deposit, part of its NWQ copper project in the Mount Isa copper belt of north-west Queensland.... 


The iron-ore terminal at Saldanha Bay.
South Africa iron-ore trade route to Europe could be green by 2029, study shows
13th November 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The South Africa-Europe iron-ore trade route could go green as soon as 2029 and scale toward full decarbonisation by 2035, according to a study released by the Global Maritime Forum. The... 


Sandfire CEO Brendan Harris
Sandfire eyes repeat of Kalahari success with Curnamona entry
13th November 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia’s largest listed independent copper producer, Sandfire Resources, announced on Thursday a binding term sheet with Havilah Resources to advance the Kalkaroo copper/gold project in... 


Rio Tinto mothballs flagship Jadar lithium project
Rio Tinto mothballs flagship Jadar lithium project
13th November 2025 By: Bloomberg

Rio Tinto Group has mothballed the controversial $2.95-billion Jadar lithium project in Serbia, according to an internal note. The memo, sent this week and seen by Bloomberg, said that the project... 


Mount Gibson chair says safety trumps production, focus shifts to gold
Mount Gibson chair says safety trumps production, focus shifts to gold
12th November 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Iron-ore miner Mount Gibson chairperson Brett Smith has vowed that safety will remain the company’s top priority following last month’s rockfall at the Koolan Island iron-ore mine, in Western... 


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Atlantic awaits Parliamentary ratification of Ewoyaa mining lease
12th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Australia-based Atlantic Lithium said on Wednesday that the mining lease for its flagship Ewoyaa lithium project, in Ghana, had been submitted to Parliament for consideration and ratification. The... 


Iron-ore gains as China stimulus hopes dominate
12th November 2025 By: Reuters

Iron-ore futures gained on Wednesday, as hopes of fresh stimulus from top consumer China outweighed concerns over a gloomy outlook stemming from growing supply and diminishing demand. The... 


Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana
Godongwana outlines plans for shifting spending focus towards infrastructure
12th November 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has outlined several initiatives being undertaken to finally begin shifting the composition of government spending from consumption to capital investment,... 


Tharisa mine
Tharisa signs new debt facilities with Absa, Standard Bank
12th November 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

JSE-listed Tharisa has, subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions precedent, signed a $130-million debt facility with Absa Bank – acting through its Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)... 


Nevada Lithium welcomes addition of boron to US critical minerals list
12th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

TSX-V-listed Nevada Lithium Resources has welcomed the addition of boron to the US Department of the Interior’s 2025 Critical Minerals List, noting that its Bonnie Claire lithium project in Nevada... 


Emerson to automate Thacker Pass lithium project
12th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Automation specialist Emerson has been selected by Lithium Americas to provide its comprehensive automation portfolio and technical services for the Thacker Pass lithium project, in northern... 


Hillside Aluminium manager external affairs Craig Ullbricht; Hillside Aluminium marketing manager Njabulo Dlamini; Hillside Aluminium VPO Calvin Mkhabela; Hillside Aluminium finance manager Talhal Patel; and Hillside Aluminium technical director Adriano de Jesus
Hillside Aluminium to provide R200m funding to support manufacturing in Richards Bay
12th November 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Diversified miner South32’s Hillside Aluminium subsidiary has partnered with the Automotive Industry Transformation Fund (AITF) and the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) to... 


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Magazine round up | 07 November 2025
Magazine round up | 07 November 2025

A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. 

INEQUALITY CRISIS: Despite geopolitical resistance, President Cyril Ramaphosa has sought to use South Africa’s G20 presidency to place the threat posed by inequality on to the global agenda. A taskforce established by Ramaphosa, and led by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, has called for the creation of an international panel to tackle inequality, warning that extreme wealth disparities disrupt democracy and cause economic instability. “The world understands that we have a climate emergency; it’s time we recognise that we face an inequality emergency too,” Stiglitz asserts.
INEQUALITY CRISIS

Despite geopolitical resistance, President Cyril Ramaphosa has sought to use South Africa’s G20 presidency to place the threat posed by inequality on to the global agenda. A taskforce established... 

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South Africans must build as much as they can with as much local content as they can

The head of an Australia-funded South African mining project last week highlighted just how advantageous it is to be able to pick up the phone and have local South African mining product suppliers... 

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Scrap continues

When ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) initially announced in January that it would be closing the Newcastle mill and winding down its long-steel businesses in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and... 

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Craig Bradford, MD of A Square Forklift
Craig Bradford

This week we feature Craig Bradford, MD of A Square Forklift, an industrial equipment rental, sales and service company 



WEAK LINK: The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) is being called upon to make some increasingly complex regulatory calls as the country steadily shifts towards a more open and competitive industry structure. There is growing concern, however, about Nersa’s capacity to make decisions that will be supportive of the transition. Recent court cases and settlements have brought to the fore the problems at the regulator and have also highlighted the urgent need for its capabilities and its capacity to be beefed up.
WEAK LINK

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) is being called upon to makes some increasingly complex regulatory calls as the country steadily shifts towards a more open and competitive... 

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