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This Friday, SAfm’s radio anchor Jon Gericke spoke to Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News & Mining Weekly. Reported here is this Friday’s At the Coalface transcript: Gericke:...
Diversified metals explorer and developer Orion Minerals has highlighted significant progress on the project.
Given upcoming commemorations of Water Week – which takes place between March 20 and 26 – water and sanitation organisation the Association of Water and Sanitation Institutions of South Africa...
As many regions across South Africa, including the City of Johannesburg and eThekwini, continue to grapple with significant water supply challenges and extended outages, the growing threat of water...
Cape Town businesses and households have broken through the R55-million earnings mark from the start of the city’s Cash for Power programme in 2022/23, until January 31 this year. Cape Town is the...
Following Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s delivery of the national Budget speech on March 12, Minerals Council South Africa says the mining sector’s employees will be impacted on in various...
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is worried about a “possible bloodbath of job losses” across multiple sectors, including steel, transportation, ferrochrome and mining, on the back of...
JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals' work programmes during the interim period to December 31, 2024, focused on the progression of definitive feasibility studies (DFS) for the company’s flagship...
South Africa has extensively tested highly convincing home-grown smelting technology that has the potential to re-establish this country as a global ferroalloys hub by enabling it to produce...
The results of the pilot testing of a new Proudly South African smelting technology, which lowers electricity usage and has the potential to render local ferroalloy beneficiation globally...
Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has expressed exasperation and disappointment over the most recent implementation of Stage 3 loadshedding by Eskom over the weekend starting...
Eskom again resorted to Stage 3 loadshedding on Friday, after a loss of 2 700 MW in 14 hours, including Koeberg Unit 2, which was taken offline on March 2 and was meant to have been returned to...
An influential South African government agency recommended the country phase out coal-fired power stations on Thursday as it published a ten-year study which found that people living near them were...
The perils associated with assigning shareholder responsibilities for State-owned enterprises (SOEs) that previously fell under the Department of Public Enterprises to line ministries can no longer...
As South Africa grapples with the return of Stage 6 load shedding, the International Commodity Summit 2025 set to convene from July 14-17 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC)...
South Africa’s biggest gold mining company is well down the track with its solar build amid group operating free cash flows increasing by 46% to a new half-year record of R10.4-billion in the six...
There is no one-size-fits all approach to incorporating sustainable energy into a business. Each company must assess its specific energy needs, operational constraints, and long-term goals to...
Schneider Electric, the world’s most sustainable company and a leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hilton Baartman as...
Despite ongoing challenges in the construction sector, South Africa’s economic outlook is showing encouraging signs of improvement. This was one of the key messages at AfriSam’s Annual Budget...
Great strides are being made in the green hydrogen economy in particularly China and Europe, journalists heard during a media conference, where Northam Platinum emphasised the “absolutely...
The growth of renewable power in South Africa's energy mix, and infrastructure development programmes, such as the State-owned Eskom Transmission Development Plan (TDP) 2024 to 2034, will help to...
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) reports that it registered a further 143 renewables generation facilities with a combined capacity of 1 107 MW and an investment value of more...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has announced its annual Infrastructure Indaba, where industry stakeholders will gather to address national development priorities under the theme...
Power utility Eskom suspended loadshedding at 05:00 on February 26, following the recovery of generation capacity and the replenishment of emergency reserves. “We maintain our guidance that...
Power utility Eskom downgraded loadshedding to Stage 2 from 05:00 on Tuesday, from Stage 4 on Monday. This followed the successful recovery of eight out of ten generation units and the restoration...
Eskom reduced the intensity of loadshedding to Stage 4 in the early hours of Monday morning after having shocked the country by rapidly ramping up the intensity of its rotational cuts to Stage 6 in...
After taking the shock decision to ramp up loadshedding to Stage 6 in the early hours of Sunday February 23 - having declared Stage 3 on Saturday - Eskom is aiming to bring a halt to rotational...
Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has given the strongest indication yet that the next edition of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) will include a 10-year delay to the...
Martin Creamer talks about ferrochrome, Amplats rebrand and green hydrogen.
More opportunities are likely to emerge in the manganese value chain in future, following anticipated growth in demand for manganese ore and its products including ferromanganese. “This is being...
Johannesburg- and New York-listed Gold Fields on Thursday, February 20, delivered an attributable profit of $1 245-million for the year to the end of December, which was well up on the $703-million...
South African bearings manufacturer Vesconite Bearings believes that low-friction bearing materials can be valuable in improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions across the globe....
Platinum group metal (PGM) producer Northam has finalised a power purchase agreement (PPA) with an independent power producer (IPP) to supply wheeled electricity from the 140 MW Karreebosch Wind...
South Africa’s chromite recovery potential has been broadened by Wednesday’s joint venture (JV) agreement between Glencore Operations South Africa and Sibanye-Stillwater. “We’ll definitely extend...
Johannesburg- and New York-listed DRDGOLD on Tuesday, February 18, reported soaring half-year operating profit and 28%-higher revenue for the six months to December 31. The strongly performing...
JSE-listed mining and materials group Afrimat has warned that losses in its cement segment and a weaker-than-expected performance from its anthracite segment will mean that its results for the 2025...
South Africa’s grid infrastructure is inadequate to support economic growth and accommodate much-needed additional power, especially from renewable-energy sources coming on line as part of the...
While ‘high-carbon’ is the value-lowering label being put on aluminium from South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium in KwaZulu-Natal, the Sydney-, Johannesburg- and London-listed South32 benefits from...
South Africa's mining production decreased by 2.4% year-on-year in December, with platinum group metals (PGMs) and gold having made the largest negative contributions. PGM production decreased by...
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...
The Energy Council of South Africa has launched a communications campaign dubbed ‘Energise Mzansi’, which it says will seek to improve “energy transition literacy” amid rapid structural changes in...
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