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The price of electricity for energy-intensive users, permitting challenges and the conversion of marginal shafts to small businesses were among the suggestions and problems mining industry...
Automechanika Johannesburg successfully hosted its final CEO Breakfast for 2025 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, bringing together senior automotive industry leaders for strategic discussions as...
A public hearing into the National Transmission Company South Africa’s (NTCSA’s) application for a market operator licence will be hosted by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) on...
Australian gold mine production for the 2024/25 financial year reached 300 t, the highest yearly total since 2022/23, but falls short of the 328-t record set in 1999/20, according to...
ASX-listed Fenix Resources has signed a binding 30-year right-to-mine agreement with Sinosteel Midwest Corporation (SMC), a subsidiary of China Baowu Steel Group, giving Fenix exclusive rights to...
Martin Creamer talks a logistics deal, continuous excavation tech and Harmony's results in focus
South Africa’s manufacturing sector is moving quickly in adopting AI-powered, digital automation tools to enhance efficiency, product precision and workforce optimisation. Fatima Khota, business...
A new report launched by the World Economic Forum (WEF) highlights the urgent need to unlock investment in Southern Africa’s critical minerals to meet surging global demand for clean energy and...
Fostering collaboration and development strategies for the sustainable extraction, beneficiation and trade of critical minerals, such as ferrochrome and ferromanganese, will be addressed at this...
Delays and logistical bottlenecks at the Cape Town port, in the Western Cape, cost South Africa’s apple and pear export industry an estimated R1-billion in 2024, according to supply chain solutions...
Exhibitor innovation took the spotlight at industry event KwaZulu-Natal Industrial Technology Exhibition (KITE) 2025 as industry association South African Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC)...
A well-established local presence is crucial to access global markets in capital equipment exports, highlights industry association South African Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC) CEO Eric...
Success in exporting – facilitated in part by a strong relationship with industry association South African Capital Equipment Export Council (SACEEC) – contributes to South Africa’s economic growth...
What do you do when you grow tired of the corporate grind? For mechanical engineer Stephan Bekker, the answer was to start his own bike-rim manufacturing company after spending several years...
With industrial and trade policy firmly back on the global agenda, South African industry is becoming more vocal in highlighting the threats posed to South Africa’s industrial capacity by policy...
Potash developer BCI Minerals has advanced its sulphate of potash programme.
The Asian Development Bank will provide a $410-million financing package to help develop the project.
Australia's corporate regulator fined TerraCom on Wednesday a penalty of A$7.5-million ($4.87-million) after the coal miner breached whistleblower protections. The Australian Securities &...
The Hot Dip Galvanizers Association Southern Africa (the HDGASA) serves as a lighthouse, guiding stakeholders through the complexities of steel fabrication, and corrosion protection in South...
Canada is working with its allies to potentially fund critical mineral transactions, similar to what the US government did with MP Materials to diversify the supply chain from China, Energy and...
Rare earths developer Pensana has reported that its CEO Tim George and CCO Will Izod recently met with White House National Security Council deputy director for critical and emerging technology...
Energy and chemicals group Sasol reports that construction of its coal destoning plant has been completed and that the facility, which should be ramped up to full production by December, is...
Indonesia has scrapped a requirement to use government benchmark prices as the floor price in minerals and coal sales, a mining ministry decree reviewed on Monday showed. Issued earlier this...
Mining companies have often needed to navigate disordered markets; however, unprecedented pressure is currently being imposed by export restrictions, resource nationalism, fragmented supply chains,...
Another agreement involving collaboration between the public sector and the private sector in the field of rail transport service has been signed, this time between the Johannesburg Stock...
China, the world's dominant rare earth supplier, issued on Friday measures to regulate the mining, smelting and separation of thecritical minerals key to energy transition, further tightening its...
Australia's BCI Minerals has entered full-scale operations at its A$1.44-billion Mardie salt project in Western Australia, which is set to become the country’s biggest industrial salt operation and...
Chanel du Toit - Manager Key Account Export Main activity of company: Coordinating stainless steel sales with subsidiaries in the southern part of Europe Date and place of birth: 26 August 1985,...
Despite depressed platinum group metal (PGM) prices, there is “plenty of scope for optimism and opportunity” was the takeaway from the PGMs Industry Day held in April, in Johannesburg, reported...
There are things happening in African states that South Africa could partner for the good of our economy and the South African people. We are noticing that there are advances taking place on the...
Altona Rare Earths has reported that it has received partial mineralogy and geochemistry results of gallium samples from Monte Muambe.
Arafura Rare Earths has raised about A$80-million through a two-tranche institutional placement as the company advances towards a final investment decision
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...
he Asian Development Bank will provide a $410-million financing package to help develop Pakistan's Reko Diq copper mine, one of the world’s largest untapped deposits, which will be operated by...
TSX-V-listed Excellon has announced a financing and offtake agreement with Glencore to support the restart of its past-producing Mallay silver mine in Peru. The deal provides for up to $7.5-million...
Despite a global shift away from coal towards renewable energy, coal remains essential for energy generation, particularly in countries such as South Africa, where it still plays a significant role...
Rare earth prices have risen strongly following the US government’s agreement with MP Materials setting a price of $110 000/t of neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr) and the Chinese government banning...
Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) aims to finalise by the end of this year a $533-million loan deal with the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) that is vital for the upgrade of its...
China's exports of rare earth magnets recovered to hit a six-month high in July, showing trade flows of the critical minerals key to electric vehicles have returned to levels seen before Beijing...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized an appeals court's decision to temporarily block federal officials from completing a land transfer needed for Rio Tinto and BHP to develop Arizona's...
The global defence industry is expected to stimulate considerable demand for nickel as the world invests in more armaments that require nickel-containing steels. “I think there's going to be a big...
Argentina's Gualcamayo gold mine is aiming to build a new $665-million project it hopes will qualify for a new government incentive program, executives said in a recent press tour of the site....
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