JSE-listed Northam Platinum has reported record production and sales for the 2025 financial year, surpassing one-million ounces sold for the first time in its history. Despite weaker margins and... 

Harmony Gold Mining Company, South Africa’s biggest gold mining company, is proving itself to be a great South African asset and it’s booming at the moment, not only because the gold price is so... 

Amid constraints in global demand and weak pricing for ferroalloys, the local industry faces high energy costs and currency fluctuations that affect its ability to compete against global... 

After having successfully acquired 100% of the shares of the Wonderfontein coal mine, in Belfast, Mpumalanga, Ndalamo Energy – a subsidiary of midtier coal miner Ndalamo Resources – has started the... 

Perth-based gas exploration company Kinetiko Energy has confirmed one of South Africa’s most significant onshore gas finds, following about a decade of work in Mpumalanga. The company has drilled... 

Telecommunications group Vodacom is investing R620-million in its Mpumalanga network during the 2025/26 financial year, building on the more than R400-million spent in the previous year. Vodacom... 

With power price and purchase agreements to power its Mozal Aluminium smelter in Mozambique in limbo, diversified metals producer South32 CEO Graham Kerr says the company’s sister operation in... 

Eskom’s electricity tariffs are poised to rise by 8.76% on April 1 next year instead of the 5.36% approved previously, and by 8.83% instead of 6.19% in 2027/28 after the National Energy Regulator... 

South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has been a global benchmark for clean energy delivery. As we step into the future, the stakes are higher... 

Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi has confirmed that the JSE-listed group has applied to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for an electricity trading licence, and is also planning to take... 

Gold producer Pan African Resources (PAR) is gearing to release its inaugural biodiversity report next month, which outlines the group’s approach to biodiversity conservation across its operations... 

This week we profile Nhlanhla Zondo, executive director at Power Process Systems, which specialises in the design, manufacture and switchgear-wiring of electrical enclosures and distribution... 

Although the slowing growth rate in the development of electric vehicles (EVs) in some major markets might negatively affect the demand for platinum-group metals (PGMs), it is important to consider... 

State-owned electricity utility Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power station was recently licensed to operate its Unit 1 for another 20 years, with global consultancy SRK Consulting South Africa playing a... 

Independent power company Globeleq and its project partner, energy supplier African Rainbow Energy, have reached financial close on the 153 MW/612 MWh Red Sands battery energy storage system (BESS)... 

Having been awarded preferred bidder status for the Haru battery energy storage system (BESS), Norwegian renewable energy systems company Scatec has been chosen as the preferred bidder for a total... 

Over the past decade, significant strides have been made globally and locally towards improving gender representation in the workplace. Yet, despite this progress, the financial services sector,... 

The message delivered by Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa that the reforms under way in the electricity sector are “irreversible”, is an important one. Doubly so, given that... 

Global energy and services group ENGIE is focused on low-carbon energy and related services. It operates in three key business sectors: low-carbon electricity generation (including natural gas and... 

Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Exxaro Resources will be spending R5.2-billion on a life-of-mine expansion project at its Matla colliery and R4.7-billion on the development of the 140 MW... 

Clean power production technologies provider Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) entered the South African market in 1891 to supply boilers to the country’s gold mining industry, at a time when the young... 

Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed DRDGOLD on Wednesday declared a final 2025 cash dividend double that of last year, reflecting an increase of 26% in group revenue to R7 878.2-million and an... 

With South Africa enjoying a reprieve from loadshedding, now is the time to act swiftly to secure the country’s long-term energy stability. One of the most effective yet underutilised solutions is... 

Platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Northam Holdings has reported a 25.5% year-on-year decline in operating profit to R3.6-billion for the year ended June 30, as rising mining cost inflation and... 

Eskom says its recently published request for proposals (RFP) inviting large power users to bid for 291 MW of solar PV capacity that the State-owned entity is aiming to introduce in phases from the... 

Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa on August 14 visited Seriti Green’s flagship Ummbila Emoyeni renewable-energy project in Mpumalanga, highlighting it as an exemplar for the... 

“We are, in my view, fairly close to a possible solution,” Glencore Alloys CEO Japie Fullard said during Merafe Resources question time earlier this week amid South Africa going all out to prevent... 

To remain at the forefront of driving South Africa’s strategic energy objectives, the National Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Research Development and Innovation Strategy, known as Hydrogen South Africa,... 

There remains a defiant expectation of sustained growth in manganese demand over the long term, driven by traditional steel markets and the emerging demand from electric vehicle (EV) batteries,... 

Diversified natural resources group South32 has warned that it will have to put its Mozal aluminium smelter on care and maintenance in early 2026, as it struggles to secure sufficient and... 

Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa insists that the reforms under way in the electricity sector are “irreversible”, and has again confirmed that he has asked the Eskom board... 

The global demand for ferrochrome, which South Africa once provided overwhelmingly to the world to back 200 000 local jobs, was higher in the six months to June 30, the period in which this... 

This week: Khwelamet ferromanganese revival will begin when Eskom gives feasible power rate and, AngloGold holds costs below 2% amid peers averaging 15%-plus 

Two Chinese engineering companies, East China Engineering Science and Technology (ECEC) and Sinopec Ningbo, have made the final round of bidding for a basic engineering contract to build the... 

Electricity and Energy Miniter Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has urged Eskom to stay or withdraw its court action to have the National Energy Regulator of South Afirca’s (Nersa’s) licensing of five... 

“We’re working with government, looking at possible solutions,” Glencore Alloys CEO Japie Fullard tells Mining Weekly amid Glencore reporting this week that not one of its ferrochrome smelters is... 

Martin Creamer talks about ferromanganese; platinum group metals and gold price.  

“We have R25-billion to deploy in Mpumalanga for wind farms, and we can't get budget quotes.” These were the words of Seriti Green at the latest Coal & Energy Transition Day in Johannesburg. Seriti... 

The idiom ‘one step forward, two steps back’ has surely arisen in the minds of those who have been monitoring developments in the electricity industry over the recent past. It is undeniable that... 

A 155 MW Mpumalanga wind energy project has reached financial close, following the signing of a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between Seriti Green and licensed energy trader Energy... 

Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) and Business Unity South Africa (Busa) have called on the South African government to urgently intervene to protect the national energy reform programme in... 

The minute that Eskom gives Khwelamet an economically feasible power price, the refurbishing of two of the four furnaces at the dormant former Metalloys plant in Meyerton will begin and take six to...