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African Rainbow Minerals Executive Chairperson Dr Patrice Motsepe.
ARM highlights need for South Africans to work together to make country better place
5th September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The need for South Africa to attract investment as a globally competitive investment destination was highlighted on Friday by Dr Patrice Motsepe, the executive chairperson of African Rainbow... 


Transnet CEO Michelle Phillips
First private train operators expected to enter network over coming 12 to 36 months
5th September 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Transnet CEO Michelle Phillips reports that negotiations are under way to conclude contracts with the first 11 private train operating companies (TOCs) that have qualified to take up slots on the... 


TFR locomotives
Transnet reports smaller full-year loss
5th September 2025 By: Reuters

State-owned logistics group Transnet on Friday reported a smaller loss of R1.9-billion in the financial year to the end of March, down from a R7.3-billion loss in the previous year. The... 


As more companies pivot to contract work in opencast mining, the BCCEI reminds all load-and-haul contractors that registration is a legal requirement under civil engineering regulations
Civil Work on Mines requires BCCEI registration – here’s why
5th September 2025

As South Africa’s mining and civil engineering sectors continue to navigate economic uncertainty, many companies with loading and hauling capabilities are pivoting to offer their services as... 


Elemental Altus and EMX form new midtier royalty company
Elemental Altus and EMX form new midtier royalty company
5th September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

TSX-V Elemental Altus Royalties on Thursday announced the acquisition of NYSE-listed EMX Royalty, with the merged company to continue under the new name of Elemental Royalty. In support of the... 


CILTSA Announces Distinguished Speaker Lineup for Women in Logistics Empowerment Conference 2025
CILTSA Announces Distinguished Speaker Lineup for Women in Logistics Empowerment Conference 2025
5th September 2025

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport South Africa (CILTSA) has unveiled an impressive roster of speakers for its Women in Logistics, Transport and Supply Chain Empowerment Conference... 


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EMS solutions reduce grid pressure, enhance supply
5th September 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

Innovations in solar energy, such as off-grid energy solutions company Blockpower’s Blackbox, an energy management system (EMS), allow for energy savings and cost-efficiency, as well as system... 


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Solar panel lifting product simplifies solar system installation
5th September 2025

The solar energy market is surging in South Africa – particularly in the commercial and industrial sectors – as businesses seek cost-effective, sustainable solutions to manage rising electricity... 


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Renewables investments bolster growth despite dim infrastructure outlook
5th September 2025

As South Africa grapples with ongoing electricity shortages and a heavy reliance on ageing coal-fired power plants, renewable energy remains critical to ensuring long-term energy security and... 


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Decision time
5th September 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Developments in the South African steel industry offer a glimpse into the pressures being faced by the manufacturing sector as a whole, and the likely industrial and trade policy responses to those... 


Aerial view of the Eland mine
Eland mine complex, South Africa – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Completion of a 4.5-m-diameter raise-bored ventilation shaft has markedly improved underground conditions, especially in deeper areas critical to the medium-term ramp-up. 


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GalliCam nickel project, France – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Gallicam has been granted ‘strategic project’ status under the European Union Critical Raw Materials Act. 


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Kabanga nickel project, Taanzania – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Lifezone Metals has closed a bridge loan facility with Taurus Mining Finance Fund No. 2, enabling its wholly owned subsidiary, Kabanga Nickel, to advance early works and infrastructure development. 


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Kayelekera uranium restart project, Malawi – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Lotus Resources announced on September 1 that it had produced the first batch of uranium. 


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Mine Waste Solutions – Kareerand TSF, South Africa – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Good progress has been made at the expansion project. 


B20 South Africa energy mix and just transition task force chairperson Daniel Mminele
B20 South Africa energy task force urges big upscaling in energy transition financing
4th September 2025 By: Terence Creamer

The B20 South Africa task force on energy has unveiled three recommendations that will be presented to the G20 government leaders when they gather for their yearly meeting in Johannesburg in... 


Gem Resources raises £2.12m to optimise Gravelotte, restart Curlew
4th September 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

London-listed Gem Resources has raised £2.12-million, before expenses, to support production optimisation and cost reduction at its Gravelotte emerald mine, in South Africa, and to restart... 


Simplicity, scalability, and sustainability – SaaS energy management for small business
Simplicity, scalability, and sustainability – SaaS energy management for small business
4th September 2025

By: Thabang Byl - Buildings Segment Lead at Schneider Electric Retail and franchising are fast paced; a world where margins are tight and expectations sky-high. For those small-format retail... 


Kwikspace Level 1 BBBEE status delivers tangible benefits to its clients
Kwikspace Level 1 BBBEE status delivers tangible benefits to its clients
4th September 2025 By: Tracy Klückow

Africa's largest manufacturer of prefab and modular buildings Kwikspace offers proven capability and unmatched empowerment credentials. “Kwikspace is a tried and tested company that can meet the... 


Mogale tailings retreatment facility
Higher sales, gold price to give Pan African’s earnings a boost
4th September 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

JSE-listed Pan African Resources has advised shareholders in a group trading statement that its earnings per share (EPS) for the financial year ended June 30 are expected to be between $0.07 a... 


MinRes completes first blast at Iron Valley’s North Pit
MinRes completes first blast at Iron Valley’s North Pit
4th September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Mineral Resources (MinRes) has completed the first blast at the North Pit of its Iron Valley operation in Western Australia’s Pilbara, advancing development of the mine’s newest... 


Atlantic Lithium CEO Keith Muller
Atlantic Lithium enters binding financing agreements to fund Ewoyaa project
3rd September 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Aim-and ASX-listed Atlantic Lithium has entered into binding financing agreements with global investment company Long State Investments to secure funding of up to £28-million to support the... 


Sandfire MD and CEO Brendan Harris
Sandfire hails Motheo success, highlights Botswana partnership
3rd September 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia-based Sandfire Resources MD and CEO Brendan Harris has described the company’s Motheo copper mine in Botswana as a “remarkable achievement”, crediting both the supportive investment... 


Stacked gold bars
Council, partners propose new way to own, trade and use gold
3rd September 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

The World Gold Council (WGC), British multinational law firm Linklaters and Hilltop Walk Consulting have unveiled a “pioneering vision” to transform the global gold market through the introduction... 


How RMA’s prevention programme is transforming workplace safety in South Africa’s metals sector
How RMA’s prevention programme is transforming workplace safety in South Africa’s metals sector
3rd September 2025

Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA) launched its Prevention Programme in 2022, intending to drive measurable improvements in worker safety across South Africa’s metals and engineering sector. Three years... 


Making A Lasting Impact: Women in Energy
3rd September 2025

South Africa finds itself at a critical juncture, transitioning from its reliance on coal to a future driven by clean energy. This energy transition is creating space for women to excel in crucial... 


PMI Global Summit Series Africa calls for bankable projects to unlock Africa’s $70bn infrastructure gap
PMI Global Summit Series Africa calls for bankable projects to unlock Africa’s $70bn infrastructure gap
3rd September 2025

Africa’s greatest obstacle is not a shortage of capital but a shortage of bankable projects. That was the central message from the PMI Global Summit Series Africa in Kigali, where African... 


Crushing it with Volvo: How Babcock supports green innovation on the ground
Crushing it with Volvo: How Babcock supports green innovation on the ground
3rd September 2025

Crush It Green, a growing recycling and materials processing business in Gauteng, is living proof that environmental responsibility and commercial success can go hand in hand - especially when... 


Looming Fed rate cuts fuel gold price bonanza to records
Looming Fed rate cuts fuel gold price bonanza to records
3rd September 2025 By: Reuters

Gold's latest rally, triggered by expectations of US rate cuts, concerns about Federal Reserve independence and strong demand from investors as well as the central bank, is likely to propel prices... 


roadside jobseekers
Minister Meth vows her dept is working to curb job losses across the country
2nd September 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Employment and Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth has expressed concern about the ongoing retrenchment processes being initiated in various industries in South Africa. In the first quarter of the... 


A ferrochrome smelter
Large miners and industrial firms want tariff reopener after R54bn settlement creates price-path uncertainty
2nd September 2025 By: Terence Creamer

The Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) has called for a reopening of the most recent electricity tariff determination, arguing that a R54-billion behind-closed-doors settlement between the... 


Lifezone closes $60m bridge loan, explores strategic transactions for Kabanga Nickel
Lifezone closes $60m bridge loan, explores strategic transactions for Kabanga Nickel
2nd September 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

NYSE-listed Lifezone Metals has closed a $60-million bridge loan facility with Taurus Mining Finance Fund No. 2, enabling its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kabanga Nickel, to advance early works and... 


Containers being transported by ship
Unctad reports that trade policy uncertainty has 'become the new tariff'
2nd September 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

The unpredictability of particularly US trade policy has become a major factor in global trade, UN Trade and Development (Unctad) has highlighted in its latest 'Global Trade Update'. This was on... 


Sylvania's Doornbosch operation
Sylvania names CFO-designate
2nd September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Aim-listed platinum group metals and chrome producer Sylvania, which owns assets in South Africa, will promote executive finance officer Ronel Bosman to CFO, with effect from December 1. She will... 


Platinum group metals support every step of the vitally necessary energy transition.
IDC, KfW funding green hydrogen, green ammonia project in solar-rich Northern Cape
2nd September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Project development funding for the Prieska Power Reserve Project is being partly sourced from the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development... 


Diamonds being sorted
Lab-grown gems are robbing Botswana of its diamond riches
2nd September 2025 By: Bloomberg

Across Botswana the lines of patients outside government clinics are lengthening, construction companies dependent on state jobs are firing workers and university students are threatening to... 


Parker’s standout feature is the 4 km-long Red Breccia Zone, a haematite-magnetite mega-breccia over 100 m wide, typical of iron oxide copper-gold systems.
Magnum refocuses US projects on rare earths and critical minerals
2nd September 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia-based Magnum Mining and Exploration has sharpened its focus on the growing US market for critical minerals, launching a comprehensive review of its American assets following a board... 


Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe
Mining industry flags electricity, permitting, illegal mining during engagement with DMPR
1st September 2025 By: Schalk Burger

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... 


Lucara draws $10m from shareholder backing, highlights recent recoveries
Lucara draws $10m from shareholder backing, highlights recent recoveries
1st September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Toronto-listed Lucara Diamond has drawn $10-million from a $63-million limited shareholder standby undertaking to address funding needs at its Karowe underground project (UGP) in Botswana. The... 


Boddington was Australia's biggest gold producer in the 2024/25 financial year.
Australian gold output hits 300 t again
1st September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

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... 


northams' zondereinde mine
Northam hits record 1Moz in sales as tight PGM markets fuel growth plans
29th August 2025 By: Darren Parker

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 CEO Beyers Nel,
Harmony’s starting to show the world that gold mining in South Africa is good business
29th August 2025 By: Martin Creamer

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... 


The Uis tin and tantalum mine
Andrada outlines goals for the new financial year after a 'year of delivery, strategic progress'
29th August 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

London-listed technology metals mining company Andrada Mining CFO Hiten Ooka has said the company's focus for the 2026 financial year is on delivering its expansion projects, maintaining tight... 


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