In the last 100 years, energy consumption by the mining industry has rocketed. To use copper as an example, Anglo American reports that producing a pound of copper today requires 16 times more... 

The mining industry is once again coming to South Africa’s economic rescue. Earlier this year, it surprised on the upside by giving the fiscus mountain-high taxes at the height of the Covid crisis,... 

South Africa’s southern African neighbours are showing us up in the green energy front – as well as in the field of mineral exploration. The ink was hardly dry on Namibia’s laudatory plan to... 

The Bafokeng community proved to be wide awake when they made sure they got official title to their land a couple of centuries back. This resulted in the community hitting the platinum group metals... 

The climate finance that South Africa is seeking to fund our move away from coal-based electricity to sun and wind energy – while also elevating 120 000 power station and mineworkers into the new... 

The decision of National Treasury to give tax-free incentives to those who invest with a dozen big finance concerns, but not afford the same tax-free incentives in special investments to... 

South Africa is going to COP26 in Glasgow with high hopes of being recognised as a country that can play its part in the global fight against climate change. What is ironic is that South Africa not... 

At last count, there was a backlog of more than 5 000 applications for mining, prospecting and exploration licences waiting to be processed. Many months after Parliament revealed that figure,... 

Listed companies have piles of reporting obligations from every angle – carbon emissions, climate change risk, community support, King governance – and unlisted companies have no public... 

National Treasury gives tax-free benefits to the members of the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) but not to individuals, which is resulting in only big business being... 

South Africa’s financial sector re-regulation has had the impact of empowering the big companies and is limiting entrepreneurship and junior activity on South Africa’s stock markets. Even though... 

When South Africa’s electricity prices were competitive, a lot of high-energy infrastructure was established. But many furnaces and smelters had to be put on care-and-maintenance after Eskom’s... 

Sasol provides South Africa with a ready-made opportunity for green hydrogen generation and we must waste no time going full tilt into it. The Germans may have invented Fischer Tropsch (FT)... 

South Africa is a carbon-intensive economy and stands to face punitive measures if it fails to show genuine decarbonisation intent. Virtually every South African public company that reports these... 

The tragedies surrounding Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) are heart-breaking. Two key employees of the Rio Tinto company have been shot dead and equipment burnt, causing losses of hundreds of millions... 

The pioneers who mined the Witwatersrand Gold Basin so many years ago were so spoilt for choice that they just chased the obvious rich orebodies, which resulted in the South African economy... 

Planet earth is being choked by greenhouse gas emissions. As fires rage and floods devastate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a code red. Investors are urging companies to... 

It is ironic that Botswana has beaten South Africa to the exploration cadastre punch using proudly South African technology. The technology in question has been received with open arms by the rest... 

National Treasury needs to acknowledge how much more the South African economy could get out of mining if it just did what Canada does to promote exploration. For some reason, the flow-through... 

The Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS) Act has changed the very nature of retail stock broking. Retail stock brokers have given way wealth managers, who make their money from... 

There are just far too many unlisted mining companies in South Africa that are extracting what belongs to us all without us being able to see rehabilitation and transfer pricing conformance. There... 

It’s very hard to get through to National Treasury. Word is that the only group Treasury listens to are the 11 financial institutions that control 90% of South Africa’s savings. It’s also very hard... 

A very quick return is on the way from copper in dumps in the Northern Cape, and $4-billion worth of rare earths is there for the taking in dumps in Phalaborwa. There is gold galore in tailings... 

It was astonishing to hear Harmony Gold express fears of being carbon taxed up to R80-million by 2023 and R250-million by 2030. The owners of deep level mines are going to have to move fast to... 

When it comes to energy, the world has entered a Roaring Twenties-equivalent with clean, green electricity demanded here, there and everywhere. Sir Mick Davis’ Vision Blue, together with  Canada’s... 

Electricity storage batteries are what the new world will be running on and South Africa must grasp its opportunity to make them locally. A Canadian company mining graphite in Madagascar sees South... 

There is money lying around in South Africa because of the mining that has been done in this country over many years. A walk around the rock dumps at Nababeep, for example, has given rise to a... 

There is negligible greenfield exploration taking place in South Africa, a mining country. We know that mining, preceded by exploration, is the world’s greatest economic multiplier. South Africa... 

South Africa’s mineral endowment is resulting in cash gushing into the Receiver of Revenue’s office and foreign exchange pouring through the border gates. Mining has become our economic saviour in... 

Mining is reawakening and even countries with an abundance of mining skills are starting to check whether their capacity is going to be adequate. South Africa should do the same. Mining’s future is... 

Mining, preceded by exploration, is the greatest economic multiplier of all business activities, including government expenditure, says Integral Asset Management chief investment officer Bruce... 

The decision of Eskom to ask Treasury to consider the release of a top coal mining company from its long-term contractual obligations should be opened to full public scrutiny. In this instance,... 

Holding South Africans to a 10 MW self-generation grid-linked electricity threshold of 10 MW is a measure that is holding back the economic future of this country. The limit must be raised to at... 

The South African people must no longer tolerate national slowness that keeps us out of the benefits of global trends. South Africa began in green hydrogen more than a decade ago is now falling...