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Sibanye-Stillwater’s K4 Marikana shaft.
More renewable energy secured for Sibanye-Stillwater's South African mines
6th February 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Precious and green metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater has concluded a flexible renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) with energy trader Etana Energy, involving the supply of 220 MW... 


Valterra Platinum CEO Craig Miller.
Valterra Platinum performs strongly amid sharp earnings rise expectation
5th February 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Platinum group metals (PGM) mining, refining and marketing company Valterra, which last week reported sharply rising earnings expectations for 2025, has delivered its strongest quarterly... 


Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane.
South Africa at pivotal point in evolution of its mining industry, says Minerals Council
4th February 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Mining built South Africa once. With clarity, confidence, and coherent policy, mining can help to build South Africa’s future again – and do so inclusively. A successful and growing mining industry... 


Seequent Segment Director Mining Dr Janina Elliott.
Critical minerals pipeline thin, greenfield exploration budgets flat
4th February 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Despite mining being essential for the survival of the global economy, the mining industry’s critical minerals pipeline remains thin and its greenfield exploration budgets flat. Pressure on mines... 


BHP's innovative Xplor programme in South Africa.
South Africa is hosting BHP’s biggest-ever explorer-technology-data bootcamp
3rd February 2026 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa is hosting the most intensive mineral systems thrust ever conducted by the exploration advancement programme being innovatively implemented by major mining company BHP. Brought... 


Implats' Rustenburg operation
Implats to report significant rise in earnings on the back of higher dollar PGM prices
3rd February 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Impala Platinum (Implats) expects to report a 392% to 411% year-on-year increase in headline earnings and headline earnings per share (HEPS) and a 387% to 407%... 


Michael Jones will retire as Tharisa CFO
Jones to retire as Tharisa CFO
3rd February 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Michael Jones will retire as CFO and executive director of JSE-, A2X- and LSE-listed chrome and platinum group metals company Tharisa and its subsidiaries, with effect from July 31. He has served... 


An image of Bert Lopes
Policy reform key to reigniting confidence
30th January 2026 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

As South Africa enters 2026 with mining remaining central to its economic identity, questions persist over whether the sector can attract the scale of investment required to match its geological... 


Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Dr Richard Stewart.
Sibanye-Stillwater updates on strategy, structure, capital allocation, implementation
29th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

South African gold is a strategic priority, and that includes the Burnstone project, and South African platinum group metals (PGMs) are certainly strategic priorities and that includes a number of... 


Green hydrogen development.
New platinum development lowering hydrogen cost prospects, researchers report
26th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

A novel platinum development has resulted in the $2 per kilogram 2026 green hydrogen cost target being beaten. The new approach results in more hydrogen being obtained from less platinum and is... 


Mining stocks on cusp of supercycle as AI boom stokes metals
Mining stocks on cusp of supercycle as AI boom stokes metals
26th January 2026 By: Bloomberg

Global mining stocks have shot to the top of fund managers’ must-have list, as soaring metals demand and tight supplies of key minerals hint at a new supercycle in the sector. With a nearly 90%... 


Platinum Fortuna 1oz bullion bar, heads and tails.
Investors showing strong interest in platinum, online investment is on the rise
23rd January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Investors are showing strong interest in platinum and online platinum investment is on the rise, Gold Avenue CEO Nicolas Cracco reports. Constrained supply and sensitivity to economic trends make... 


Valterra Platinum's production personnel at work.
Valterra Platinum earnings set to soar on lower sales
23rd January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

The earnings of Valterra Platinum are set to soar, the Johannesburg- and London-listed platinum group metals (PGM) miner and refiner stated in a trading statement on Friday January 23, for the 12... 


An image of platinum jewellery
Platinum jewellery sales rise amid high gold price
23rd January 2026

The global platinum jewellery market experienced growth across key regions in the second quarter of 2025, reports platinum marketing organisation Platinum Guild International’s (PGI)’s October... 


An image of platinum in a smelter
Africa remains central to global PGMs supply
23rd January 2026 By: Nadine Ramdass

Amid complex platinum group metals (PGMs) supply and demand opportunities and challenges, Africa is expected to remain a leading source of primary PGMs supply, says PGMs mining company Impala... 


An image of World Platinum Investment Council research director Edward Sterck
PGM market expected to balance this year
23rd January 2026 By: Nadine Ramdass

Following the platinum supply shortfall and “dramatic” platinum price surge in 2025, global platinum investment market authority the World Platinum Investment Council’s (WPIC) initial forecast for... 


Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi (left) and Valterra Platinum CEO Craig Miller.
Sasol, Valterra Platinum on board Hydrogen Council as next delivery phase takes off
21st January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

In an announcement to Mining Weekly from Brussels on Tuesday January 20, South Africa’s Simon Baloyi, the CEO of Sasol, and South Africa's Craig Miller, the CEO of Valterra Platinum, featured... 


Ferrochrome from the Lion smelter.
Ferrochrome venture’s 2025 output 63% lower, Merafe reports
20th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Ferrochrome output from the Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture was 63% lower in 2025 than in 2024, Merafe Resources reported on Tuesday, January 20. Attributable production fell from 301 000 t in 2024... 


Boston Consulting Group’s Tycho Möncks (left) and Mikhail Nikomarov.
2025 to 2035 decisive for Africa’s new mineral wealth opportunity, say Boston execs
16th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Africa’s mineral wealth has become a focal point for the clean energy transition and advanced manufacturing and coordinated action by Africa can convert the continent’s mineral wealth into GDP... 


Southern Palladium chairperson Roger Baxter
Southern Palladium welcomes opportunities presented by the Future Minerals Forum
15th January 2026 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

The Future Minerals Forum's (FMF's) conference is a “fantastic event that is growing in leaps in bounds”, convening important mining participants from around the world and streamlining connections.... 


President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Significant new platinum-linked green hydrogen advances sweeping across UAE and US
15th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Speaking at the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week on Tuesday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa positioned green hydrogen at the centre of Africa’s big energy opportunity – and then on Wednesday... 


World Platinum Investment Council Director of Research Edward Sterck.
Platinum research head notes demand for precious metals as fiat currency alternatives
14th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

The Trump administration’s policies and repeated attacks on the independence of the Federal Reserve are bringing into question the role of the US dollar as the global reserve currency and driving... 


Absa CIB Coverage Head for Resources and Energy Shirley Webber.
Call for Africa to turn fragmented mineral belts into coherent regional value chains
13th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Africa does not have the luxury of treating regional cooperation and regional beneficiation as afterthoughts. If the continent continues to negotiate in small, fragmented units, the result will be... 


Platinum ingots.
Significant 2026 platinum price rise forecast by Bank of America Securities
12th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

With strong demand for platinum group metals (PGMs) continuing, Bank of America Securities Global Research has raised its 2026 platinum price forecast to $2 450/oz from $1 825/oz and its 2026... 


Flashback to CPM Group's Jeffrey Christian (right) being interviewed by Mining Weekly's Martin Creamer.
Long-run gold bull market expected by CPM Group of the US
8th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Given the state of the world politically, economically, financially and socially, the gold bull market is expected to continue in the long run, says Jeffrey Christian of New York-based CPM Group.... 


Platinum jewellery.
Platinum jewellery demand continues to show resilience amid market fluctuations
7th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Global platinum jewellery demand has shown notable third-quarter (Q3) resilience as consumers in key markets seek value and authenticity amid historic highs in gold prices, Platinum Guild... 


Flashback to Brian Gilbertson (right) being interviewed by Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer.
Legendary Brian Gilbertson’s colossal contribution to mining will live on
18th December 2025 By: Martin Creamer

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – It is difficult to know where to start when doing an obituary on Brian Gilbertson, who passed away at the age of 82 in his bed at home in South Africa surrounded... 


Newly appointed MC Mining CEO Christine (Yi) He.
Foreign direct investment providing quantum progress, new MC Mining CEO emphasises
17th December 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The mineral reserves of South Africa hold enormous potential for the country’s future economic growth, newly appointed MC Mining MD and CEO Christine (Yi) He emphasises in an Op-Ed released on... 


the mine site.
Stage-1 mine development strengthens Bengwenyama momentum
12th December 2025 By: Devina Haripersad

Work on the southern decline at the Bengwenyama project is being accelerated by platinum group metals (PGM) miner Southern Palladium to reach the shallow Upper Group 2 (UG2) reef. This move aims to... 


construction on the mine site
Major milestone achieved with first production from Thaba JV
12th December 2025 By: Devina Haripersad

Despite temporary Eskom-related power constraints, the Thaba Joint Venture (JV) chrome ore and platinum group metals (PGMs) project is steadily progressing and remains on schedule to become a... 


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