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Marleny Arnoldi is a Creamer Media Deputy Editor Online for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
Central banks, record first-quarter over-the-counter purchases support gold demand
Continued exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows drove gold demand, excluding over-the-counter (OTC) purchases, down by 5% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year to 1Â 102 t. However,...
NBI launches pragmatic Just Energy Transition Skilling for Employment Programme
With skills having been identified as a key cross-cutting requirement for the Just Energy Transition Implementation Plan (JET-IP), the National Business Initiative (NBI), together with the...
CGA, ECDC to spend R1.2m on capacitating ten Eastern Cape citrus farmers for exports
The Grower Development Company of the Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa (CGA) has partnered with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) to bolster commercialisation prospects...
Globeleq appoints Hoffman interim CEO
Independent power company Globeleq has appointed Jonathan Hoffman interim CEO, effective end-June. He has been chief development officer of the company since 2020 and will be succeeding Mike...
Astral to post 465% rise in earnings as operations normalise
Integrated poultry producer Astral Foods has advised that its earnings per share (EPS) for the six months ended March 31 will increase by between 465% and 475% year-on-year. This will result in...
Mavuso encouraged by restored business, govt relations following turbulent Zuma reign
Ahead of South Africa’s national elections on May 29, Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso says regardless of changes to government, the facts of what businesses need to thrive do not...
Eskom says generation recovery plan gathering momentum
During a State of the System address hosted on Friday, Eskom confirmed its generation recovery plan (GRP) is making tangible progress, with various coal-fired power station units having been...
Eskom anticipates limited winter loadshedding amid generation improvements
Newly appointed Eskom group CEO Dan Marokane has provided assurances that loadshedding during the upcoming winter months will likely be contained at Stage 2, thanks to improvements in generation...
ASM secures another financing letter of intent from Canadian agency
Credit agency Export Development Canada (EDC) has indicated in a conditional letter of interest that it will provide a direct lending debt funding package of up to A$400-million to ASX-listed...
Hummingbird’s first-quarter performance impacted by contractual dispute at Kouroussa
Despite what its CEO Dan Betts deemed a challenging quarter, Aim-listed Hummingbird Resources delivered an 18% quarter-on-quarter increase in gold production at just under 17Â 000 oz from the...
Pilot Crushtec introduces Swedish brand of large-scale crushers to the Southern African market
Local mobile and semi-mobile crushing and screening equipment provider Pilot Crushtec has expanded its product lineup to the Southern African mining market with the addition of Swedish brand...
Some uncertainties remain around incoming visa regime changes
Government is changing the way the South African visa system works and immigration law experts have lauded this positive step to enable more foreign skilled labour into the country, but they stress...
Marula secures eight mining licences next to existing graphite projects in Tanzania
UK- and South Africa-listed battery metals miner Marula Mining has advised that its NyoriGreen Mining Limited (NML) subsidiary has been granted eight new mining licences in Tanzania. A...
Invictus partners with Zim-focused gold miner to investigate gas supply to Eureka mine
ASX-listed Invictus Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that could lead to a maiden gas offtake agreement with Dallaglio Investments, involving the supply of gas to the Eureka...
Bushveld warns it may have to halt some operations amid funding constraints
Aim-listed Bushveld Minerals recorded record quarterly production of 498 t of vanadium from the Vanchem operation, in Mpumalanga, South Africa, for the three months ended March 31, as well as...
Macroeconomic factors dampen Sasol’s year-to-date performance
NYSE- and JSE-listed petrochemicals company Sasol says its energy business benefitted from higher basic fuel prices, as well as improved refining margins towards the end of the nine months ended...
Amplats posts lower first-quarter output
Platinum group metals (PGM) miner Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) has reported a decrease in 5E metal-in-concentrate production of 7% to 834Â 100 oz for the quarter ended March 31, compared with...
Novare partners with IFC to advance green building, retail decarbonisation
Real estate investment firm Novare Equity Partners has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on its Greening Real Estate Investment Portfolios (Grips) programme, which affords...
CSIR researchers confirm latest El Niño is among harshest in history
A research team tasked to monitor the impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic phenomenon has confirmed that the 2023/24 El Niño was among the top five strongest on record. El...
Lucapa sells three diamonds for $10.5m in first tender
ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company has sold three exceptional diamonds recovered from the Lulo mine, in Angola, for $10.5-million at tender. The tender was concluded on April 19 and was conducted...
Gem Diamonds recovers 169 ct diamond in Lesotho
London-listed Gem diamonds has recovered a 169.15 ct Type II white diamond from the Letšeng mine, in Lesotho. The find marks the fourth diamond greater than 100 ct that Gem has recovered in the...
Iluka posts lower first-quarter volumes as planned
Australia-focused mineral sands and rare earths miner Iluka Resources has reported lower year-on-year production of most of its commodities owing to inventory management and a major maintenance...
Whitehaven expects newly acquired mines to add up to 5Mt a quarter to production
Australia-based coal producer Whitehaven Coal continues to deliver strong operational performances at its Maules Creek and Gunnedah openpit mines, having produced 4.4-million tonnes of run-of-mine...
Chief economist unpacks mining’s deeply-rooted contribution to economy despite challenges
The mining industry makes a significant difference in the lives and livelihoods of employees and society in South Africa through economic and socioeconomic contributions, but more can be done on...
Perseus moves to compulsory acquisition of last remaining shares in OreCorp
With ASX- and TSX-listed Perseus Mining now holding a relevant interest of 94.99% of ASX-listed OreCorp’s shares, the company is moving to a compulsory acquisition of the remaining shares it does...
UK-based Marula Mining lists on A2X in South Africa
UK-based battery metals miner Marula Mining has announced that it will undertake a secondary listing of its shares on South Africa’s A2X Markets exchange, with shares due to become available for...
Bell Equipment advances contract manufacturing initiative
Heavy equipment manufacturer Bell Equipment has been growing its business organically by investing in the development and enhancement of products, increasing market share in key regions, such as...
Association expects higher export volumes across all citrus fruits
As the citrus export season starts this month, the Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa (CGA) is confident that 37.9-million 15 kg cartons of lemons will be exported to key markets, which...
Scatec inaugurates 540 MW Kenhardt solar farm
Norwegian renewable energy company Scatec has inaugurated the 540 MW Kenhardt solar farm in the Northern Cape. In his keynote address at the event, on April 18, CEO Terje Pilskog commended how...
Higher first-quarter revenue generation sets Capital up for a year of ‘positive momentum’
London-listed mining services company Capital has recorded a 3.1% year-on-year increase in revenue to $80.2-million for the quarter ended March 31, marking a good start to its financial year....
Jubilee achieves record third-quarter chrome output, while copper expansion advances
Aim- and ASX-listed Jubilee Metals has achieved record production levels at its South African chrome operations, both on monthly output for March and for the quarter ended March 31 – which is the...
A 30% increase in whole grain adoption can reduce carbon emissions by 120Mt - BCG finds
A report published by global consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG) finds that, with thoughtful and gradual changes to how wheat is grown, processed and consumed, the food system can be...
African Risk Capacity to pay out insurance to drought-affected Southern African farmers
Farmers in Mozambique and Zambia are being impacted by one of the worst droughts in decades, United Nations (UN) assistant secretary-general Reena Ghelani has said as she met with stakeholders to...
Lotus advances process optimisation work ahead of Letlhakane mine development
ASX-listed Lotus Resources has developed a detailed initial programme of work to maximise the potential of its Letlhakane uranium project, in Botswana. The company is working to update the...
Orion makes advances in acquiring control of Okiep copper project
Australia-headquartered Orion Minerals has made progress with acquiring a controlling interest in the Okiep copper project, in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. Orion and other relevant...
De Beers says third cycle sales higher than historical levels, but lags behind last year
Diamond miner De Beers says it generated about $445-million in revenue from its third sales cycle for this year. The figure represents the expected sales value from the company’s latest global...
UNTD calls for more fiscal flexibility to help developing countries reach SDGs
While the global economic slowdown in 2023 was less severe than expected, intergovernmental organisation United Nations Trade and Development (UNTD) has warned that a further deceleration in global...
Digital Earth Africa breaks barriers to participation in space economy
The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) has been appointed as the interim host for the pan-African Digital Earth Africa Programme Management Office. Digital Earth Africa...
GSSA to host West Coast Diamonds event, excursion in May
The Geological Society of South Africa’s (GSSA’s) Northern Cape branch will host a West Coast Diamonds event and excursion on May 17 and 18, in the Northern Cape. The event will be hosted at the...
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