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The presentation of DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius at the thirty-sixth annual Gold Forum Americas 2024 in Colorado Springs highlighted the company’s world-leading gold-from-tailings advances that...
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What Harmony Gold has achieved in the 12 months to June 30 is incredible with the true driver of value being quality gold ounces and a display of capability in regions beyond South Africa, upbeat...
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Eskom has refrained from officially declaring an end to loadshedding despite having operated for more than 150 days without implementing rotational cuts; a period that coincided with the...
The South African government aims to Gazette an update to the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for electricity before the end of the 2024 calendar year and finalise South Africa’s inaugural...
The big win for surface gold recovery company DRDGOLD is the 60 MW solar farm built at Ergo in the 12 months to June 30. “I call it a R3-billion prepaid electricity facility that will take care of...
Menar, which recently signed a deal to acquire Samancor’s Metalloys, envisages reviving the ferromanganese smelting complex and exporting beneficiated manganese to the world. “It’s an exciting...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the much-anticipated Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Act, which lays the legislative foundations for the establishment of a fully independent...
Virtually every mining house in South Africa is in the process of procuring green electrons, and similar advances are taking place across the African continent, from the Democratic Republic of...
Johannesburg-listed coal and energy company Exxaro is expecting the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the South African Reserve Bank, among others, to start...
Mining and renewable energy company Exxaro Resources has declared an interim dividend in reporting its interim results for the six months to June 30. Half-year revenue of the Johannesburg Stock...
Amid waning loadshedding, government and business have agreed to begin “repurposing” the National Energy Crisis Committee (Necom) to shift focus from interventions aimed at arresting the...
When it comes to the energy transition, the countries that implement the strongest energy portfolios and power grids the fastest and most effectively are going to be the winning countries. That is...
Astron Energy, which has successfully rebranded one of South Africa’s transport fuel forecourt networks, is described by Glencore CEO Gary Nagle as being a terrific asset. With the restart to full...
iversified mining and marketing company Glencore on Wednesday highlighted what it described as “strong strategic achievements for the group over the year to date”. Against the backdrop of lower...
Diversified mining and marketing company Glencore is to continue to oversee the responsible decline of its thermal coal operations over time, the board has decided. While the decision has been...
Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), which has been bemoaning weak domestic demand conditions for several years, reports that it is witnessing signs of “green shoots” in manufacturing...
First production from the developing Thaba Joint Venture (JV) chrome and platinum group metals (PGMs) recovery project on the northern part of the western limb of South Africa’s well-endowed...
Ferrochrome production attributable to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Merafe Resources from the Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture for the six months to June 30 was a 17%-lower 154 000 t...
Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa indicates that he is in favour of grid-access rules that ensure as much new capacity is added as quickly as possible regardless of whether...
Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that a review of South Africa’s electricity pricing policy will be launched with the aim of addressing a rising affordability...
The latest gold tailings retreatment project of Pan African Resources is ahead of schedule and below budget. The Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) Project, located to the west of Johannesburg, near...
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