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Canada's Robex signs new deal with Mali for Nampala gold mine
13th February 2025 By: Reuters

Canadian miner Robex has signed a new agreement with Mali to operate its Nampala mine, located about 300 km south of the capital Bamako, the West African country's government said. The company has... 


South African-born Barrick CEO Dr Mark Bristow
Barrick signs MoU with Zambia to boost mining and exploration
12th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Gold and copper mining company Barrick has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a resources organisation of the government of Zambia, which is aimed at boosting exploration and mining in... 


Pan African CEO overlooking Mogale's gold tailings, west of the Golden City of Johannesburg.
Pan African can operate and grow in South Africa ‘very successfully’, Cobus Loots reports
12th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The London- and Johannesburg-listed Pan African Resources is able to operate and to grow in South Africa – “and do so very successfully”, an upbeat CEO Cobus Loots stated emphatically on Wednesday... 


Hillside Aluminium in Richards Bay, which crushes and refines bauxite provided by Australia.
South32 secures Worsley bauxite project approval Down Under
12th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Sydney-, Johannesburg- and London-listed South32 on Wednesday reported Australian government environmental approval for the Worsley Mine Development Project Down Under. South32’s Hillside Aluminium... 


Underground mining at Loulo in Mali
Mali and Barrick talks suspended without reaching an agreement
12th February 2025 By: Bloomberg

Mali and Barrick Gold Corp’s negotiations to end a protracted dispute over payments from the country’s biggest gold mine have been suspended, according to people familiar with the government’s... 


The many uses of platinum group metals.
Platinum group metals have major ‘urban mining’ plus, Johnson Matthey highlights
11th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Platinum group metals (PGMs)  – which are hosted and mined overwhelmingly in South Africa – have recycling rates approaching the 100% mark in some applications, with the carbon intensity of PGM... 


Flashback to President Cyril Ramaphosa during South Africa's hosting of the BRICS Summit.
Could BRICS Plus play a new-era role in aiding Africa's strong beneficiation aspirations?
10th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Collectively, Africa’s critical mineral resources are attractively expansive. Could BRICS Plus potentially become a widespread new-era platform for distinctive mining and metals collaboration and... 


A truck at the Loulo-Gounkoto mine
Mali gold production plunges 23% in 2024
10th February 2025 By: Reuters

Mali's industrial gold production plunged 23% to 51 metric tons last year from 66.5 tons in 2023, the West African country's mines ministry said. Mali is one of Africa's top gold producers and home... 


Alex Dall
Surprise turn as Gold Fields' permanent financial task now falls to interim CFO Dall
7th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Phillip Anthony Murnane will no longer be the new CFO of Gold Fields, as was announced on the JSE Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) in August last year. Instead, as from March 1, that role will be... 


President Cyril Ramaphosa
Ramaphosa says South Africa won’t ‘be bullied’ in SoNA overshadowed by tensions with US
6th February 2025 By: Terence Creamer

In a State of the Nation Address (SoNA) overshadowed by diplomatic tensions between South Africa and  the US over land, social inclusion and climate policies, President Cyril Ramaphosa said South... 


Busa says Expropriation Act safeguards sufficient to prevent arbitrary land grabs
6th February 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Business organisation Business Unity South Africa (Busa) CEO Khulekani Mathe says the Expropriation Act, in its present form, incorporates sufficient checks and balances to prevent the arbitrary... 


Menar MD Vuslat Bayoglu
Return of ferromanganese is this year’s focus, Menar emphasises at Mining Indaba
5th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Helping South Africa to return to being a producer of ferromanganese will be a major 2025 focus of mining company Menar, its MD Vuslat Bayoglu emphasised on Wednesday. In an interview on day-three... 


The Minerals Council's Hugo Pienaar, Mzila Mthenjane and Tebello Chabana
Developing a new mine in SA ‘simply not competitive or attractive’– Minerals Council CEO
5th February 2025 By: Irma Venter

When considering the development of new mines and the flurry of exploration in Africa and around the world, the South African mining sector is “simply not competitive or attractive”, says Minerals... 


Employees at a Barrick mine
Barrick Gold reaffirms its commitment to sustainability
5th February 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

Global gold and copper miner Barrick Gold Corporation was committed to sustainability, highlighted the company’s group sustainability executive Grant Beringer. He was speaking at the annual Digby... 


Mine closure needs to be thought of, from the very start of a project
4th February 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

In an era concerned with ensuring sustainability in all things, the issue of mine closure and land rehabilitation and reuse has become a major concern. It was a topic for discussion by a panel at... 


From left De Beers sustainability head Tefo Molosiwa, Anglo Group projects director Alison Atkinson, Sasol executive VP Sarushen Pillay, and Sasol corporate affairs manager Christopher Kabosha.
Promising renewable diesel pilot production plan announced by powerful partnership
4th February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The launch of a pilot initiative to produce feedstock for renewable diesel in South Africa was announced on day two of the Investing in African Mining Indaba taking place in Cape Town. The launch,... 


An image of Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson
Public Works Minister reassures prospective investors about South Africa’s Expropriation Act
4th February 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has stressed the importance of clearing up any misconceptions surrounding the Expropriation Act, to ensure investors of policy certainty. He... 


Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane
South African mining making progress, but headwinds remain, says Minerals Council CEO
3rd February 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

South Africa had made significant progress in moving away from the difficulties the country faced a year ago, particularly regarding energy supplies and transport difficulties, highlighted Minerals... 


Beneficiation of African metals and minerals in Africa is being demanded as an absolute must.
Adding value to metals and minerals in Africa emphasised as a must at Mining Indaba
3rd February 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Investing in African Mining Indaba presenters on Monday spoke repeatedly of the need for Africa to add value to its metals and minerals on the continent itself rather than allowing this to take... 


Paul Dunne, Hugo Pienaar and Mzila Mthenjane
Mining still major contributor to South African economy
3rd February 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

The South African mining industry contributed 6% of the country’s total nominal GDP during the first three quarters of last year. In money terms, this amounted to R432.7-billion. So highlighted... 


Electricity and Energy Ministry special adviser Silas Zimu (centre), McCloskey senior VP John Howland (right) and McCloskey Africa editor Randi Fabi (left).
Emission reduction is key coal challenge, industry hears at coal conference
31st January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Day two of the twentieth annual McCloskey Southern African Coal Conference opened here on Friday with carbon emission reduction being highlighted as one of the coal industry’s key challenges.... 


Qld levels playing field for mining and renewables
Qld levels playing field for mining and renewables
31st January 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Queensland government has moved to balance the regulatory requirements for the mineral resources and renewable-energy industries, announcing new planning policies that will subject wind farm... 


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Vala Zonke pothole repair programme overlooks root causes of crumbling roads
31st January 2025 By: Darren Parker

When the Department of Transport (DoT) launched the Vala Zonke pothole reporting and repair programme nationwide in August 2022, it was widely seen as a positive sign of government’s taking... 


South Africa Presidency Project Management Office director Sikhulekile (Khule) Duma
Existing South African reforms set to lift growth to 3.5% by 2029, coal conference hears
30th January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Existing economic reforms now in motion have the potential to lift South Africa’s economic growth rate to 3.5% a year by 2029, South Africa Presidency Project Management Office director Sikhulekile... 


Platinum-based pharmaceutical ingredients form the backbone of cancer treatment through chemotherapy.
Platinum playing crucial anti-cancer role, making major pharmaceutical contribution
29th January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Platinum group metals (PGMs), which are hosted overwhelmingly in South Africa, are playing a crucial anti-cancer role as well as making a significant overall PGM contribution to the pharmaceutical... 


Miners at an artisanal gold mine near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo rebel gains to boost illicit mineral trade through Rwanda, analysts say
28th January 2025 By: Reuters

A lightning advance in Congo's mineral-rich eastern borderlands is set to boost the M23 rebellion's illegal mining revenues, with analysts predicting a further surge in illicit trade in minerals... 


Producer of platinum, palladium and rhodium.
Sylvania Platinum looking forward to new project’s chrome revenue stream
28th January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The London Aim-listed Sylvania Platinum is looking forward to the Thaba Joint Venture introducing a chrome revenue stream. On its way to becoming the first platinum group metals (PGM) beneficiation... 


Richards Bay Coal Terminal chairperson Nosipho Damasane
Coal exports can be uplifted to 81-million tons, Richards Bay Coal Terminal believes
27th January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

In 2017, Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) exported a record 76.47-million tons of coal on the 907 ships that called in that year, and chairperson RBCT Nosipho Damasane believes that exports can be... 


Richards Bay Coal Terminal.
Richards Bay Coal Terminal 2024 exports extend beyond 52-million tons
24th January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) in KwaZulu-Natal exported 52.08-million tons of coal in 2024, up on the 47.21-million tons of 2023, which was the lowest since 1992. RBCT’s budgeted... 


Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe
Mantashe characterises fight against illegal mining as war, defends tactics
24th January 2025 By: Darren Parker

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has described illegal mining in South Africa as a war being waged against the country. He reaffirmed the State’s zero-tolerance stance on... 


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