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A handful of ferrochrome.
Working group has been established to extend ferrochrome’s horizon, Minister reports
9th May 2025 By: Martin Creamer

A working group with industry has been established to improve the operating environment for long-term sustainability of South Africa’s ferrochrome industry, Trade, Industry and Competition Minister... 


US President Donald Trump
Trump administration fast-tracks 10 mining projects in critical minerals push
9th May 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

The Trump administration has moved to expedite permitting for ten mining projects across the US as part of a broader effort to boost domestic production of critical minerals and reduce reliance on... 


Platinum coins. Picture: The Royal Mint.
Digital platinum investment soaring
9th May 2025 By: Martin Creamer

A digital platform that makes investing in platinum easier than ever before is reaping rewards. In the first three months of 2025, the volume of platinum sold on the DigiPlatinum investment... 


The Donlin Gold project in Alaska
Barrick exits Donlin Gold in $1.1bn deal with Paulson and NOVAGOLD
9th May 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Canadian miner Barrick Gold on Wednesday announced a deal to divest its 50% stake in the Donlin Gold project in Alaska for up to $1.1-billion, marking an exit from the asset while strengthening its... 


In the back, from left to right: De Beers product planning and delivery senior VP James Kirby; Raizcorp CEO Allon Raiz

In the front, from left to right: Axel & Co. CEO Axolisiwe Mbontsi;  House of Lemba Designs CEO Bernice Dickson; Elegânté founder and MD Noxolo Mseleku; and Shine Jewellery & Accessories CEO Johannes Matthews
De Beers, Raizcorp welcome new cohort to diamond beneficiation project
9th May 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

De Beers Group, in partnership with business incubation company Raizcorp, has launched the third intake of the Enterprise Development Project for Diamond Beneficiators, aimed at supporting and... 


Safety meeting at Khumani mine.
Assmang hits zero-fatality decade
2nd May 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa's sizeable manganese ore, manganese alloy, and iron-ore producer Assmang has achieved a major mining safety landmark by being totally fatality free for ten years. Jointly owned by... 


Heraeus Precious Metals trading head Dominik Sperzel.
PGM Day highlights ruthenium’s bright future in hydrogen, biomass, electronics
2nd May 2025 By: Martin Creamer

After listening to Heraeus Precious Metals trading head Dominik Sperzel placing ruthenium on a new high pedestal and describing this low-profile platinum group metal (PGM) as “my personal... 


Centre for Palladium Technologies head Dmitry Izotov.
South Africa invited to help uplift palladium demand by 1.7-million ounces a year
2nd May 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South African platinum group metals (PGM) companies have been invited to become part of a programme that is targeting an initial 1.7-million-ounce increase in demand for palladium, a PGM that... 


Anglo American's Fahmida Smith (centre) flanked by Nornickel's Dmitry Izotov (left) and Heraeus's Dominik Sperzel (right).
SA’s hydrogen corridor project shortlisted for JET funding
25th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s rejigged green hydrogen corridor project, Project Rhynbow, has been shortlisted for just energy transition (JET) investment project funding, this week’s Platinum Group Metals (PGM)... 


CHIETA CEO Yershen Pillay.
Platinum-based green hydrogen on way to becoming SA’s new gold – CHIETA
25th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Three new green hydrogen qualifications are being registered with the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations to enable South Africa to seize the platinum group metals (PGMs)-linked green... 


Platinum ingots
Despite cautionary indicators, platinum price will rise within a year, analyst says
25th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Although the global economic and industrial “dashboard is littered with red and yellow indicators”, Metals Focus platinum group metals (PGMs) research director Wilma Swarts believes there are... 


Minerals Council CEO Mzila Mthenjane, senior policy analyst, public affairs and transformation Fundiswa Ndaba, and senior executive, public affairs and transformation Tebello Chabana.
Minerals Council scoring big on South Africa’s socioeconomic transformation front
25th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Minerals Council South Africa has been scoring big on the transformation front, going well beyond compliance, and hopes are now high that the upcoming Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development... 


Hoisting of a raisebore machine at Platreef
Mining contractor gets creative with reeve block system at Platreef
25th April 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Specialist shaft sinking and mining contractor Murray & Roberts Cementation has successfully completed a reeve block system project at Ivanplats’ Platreef project, in Limpopo. Ivanplats needed an... 


Plug Power president and CEO Andy Marsh.
Platinum-based PEM technology at heart of everything we do, says Plug Power of US
18th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

In a Zoom video interview with Creamer Media’s Engineering News & Mining Weekly, Plug Power President and CEO Andy Marsh on Wednesday pointed out that platinum-based proton exchange membrane (PEM)... 


Paul Miller.
To reclaim global mining status, South Africa must restore trust – Paul Miller
18th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

If South Africa wants to reclaim its position in the global mining industry, half-measures just won’t cut it. The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) needs to go beyond admitting... 


New sun-tracking system.
New sun-track system could uplift SA’s concentrated solar plant performance
18th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

A new sun-tracking system, which could uplift the performance of South Africa’s concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, is attracting attention. CSPs, which use mirrors to convert sunlight into... 


Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman.
Sibanye-Stillwater, partners celebrate 89 MW wind farm reaching commercial operation
18th April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

The 89 MW Castle Wind Farm, a facility dedicated to supplying renewable energy to multinational mining and metals processing group Sibanye-Stillwater’s South African operations, has achieved... 


Platinum mining is largest mining employer.
Namibia, India, China, Europe, Australia, Scotland, Bulgaria advancing green hydrogen
11th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Namibia has produced its first green hydrogen; India has announced subsidies worth $259-million for nine companies in its second green hydrogen auction;  China has fired the starting gun on a new... 


Globally rated metals & mining analyst and portfolio manager Shamim Mansoor.
Govt, mining companies must get on with beneficiation – together, analyst urges
11th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Globally rated metals & mining analyst and portfolio manager Shamim Mansoor is urging government and mining companies to get on with it – together – to add value through downstream beneficiation to... 


Anglo American Platinum marketing and market development executive Hilton Ingram.
Co-products providing resilience against PGM price volatility, Anglo Platinum reports
11th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The product basket of Anglo American Platinum contains eight more products then the five platinum group metals (PGMs) with which it is overwhelmingly associated. Moreover, growing co-product... 


EU designates 47 strategic raw materials projects to strengthen supply chain
EU designates 47 strategic raw materials projects to strengthen supply chain
11th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

The European Commission has designated 47 strategic projects across 13 member States as part of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) implementation. The selected projects, announced on Tuesday,... 


Exxaro's Cennergi renewables capacity more than 437 MW.
Exxaro bullish on renewables, foresees decade of significant green energy growth
4th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

In the next ten years, renewable energy market growth indications point to 30 GW of clean power capacity coming into play. That is the calculation of Leon Groenewald, the MD of Exxaro Energy, the... 


SA company secures motor control panel order from Uganda mine
4th April 2025

As iTek Drives continues to expand its reached into Africa, the company is preparing to build motor control panels for a mine in Uganda. This order will be shipped with variable frequency drives... 


LBMA CE Ruth Crowell.
Action needed along entire gold value chain from ‘rock to ring’, LBMA event is told
4th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

In terms of sustainability and responsible sourcing, the 2025 focus of the independent London-based precious metals association – the LBMA – will be on mandatory disclosure, recycled gold and... 


From left, European Council President António Costa, President Cyril Ramaphosa and  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Cape Town.
Platinum given major boost by EU backing green hydrogen generation in South Africa
4th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s world-leading platinum group metals (PGM) endowment received a major boost when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen referred specifically to clean energy and green... 


Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe at the ribbon cutting of the Naudesbank colliery
Mantashe lauds opening of Seriti’s Naudesbank Colliery, insists coal mining remains critical
4th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

“King coal is back!” Mineral Resources and Petroleum Minister Gwede Mantashe exclaimed at the ribbon cutting of coal producer Seriti’s new Naudesbank Colliery, near Carolina, in Mpumalanga, on... 


Acting Exxaro CEO Riaan Koppeschaar.
Exxaro boosting small business, education, post-mining economies, farming ventures
28th March 2025

As at the end of December, the social investments of Exxaro Resources amounted to R2.1-billion amid the bettering of lives and livelihoods being declared core by this black-controlled Johannesburg... 


African Rainbow Minerals executive: growth and strategic development in the executive chairperson’s office Mike Schmidt.
‘Very promising’ narrow-reef boring technology nearing roll-out stage, ARM reports
28th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The rollout of new narrow-reef boring technology, which has the potential to boost platinum group metal (PGM) grades, lower unit costs, enhance safety, and streamline downstream materials handling,... 


ARM Ferrous CE Andre Joubert (left) interviewed by Mining Weekly's Martin Creamer.
South Africa can return to being global ferroalloy hub, ARM’s Andre Joubert reiterates
28th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

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... 


Minerals Council South Africa chief economist Hugo Pienaar
Minerals Council voices concern about dwindling mining investment
21st March 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Following a quarterly decline in the third quarter’s real GDP, growth bounced back in the fourth quarter of last year, which the Minerals Council South Africa says bodes well for all sectors;... 


Northam CEO Paul Dunne and solar power area.
Northam Platinum’s big solar thrust to save R700m a year, much more to come
21st March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The area south of the metallurgical complex at Northam Platinum’s Zondereinde platinum group metals (PGM) mine in Limpopo has been cleared for the construction of the first of the Johannesburg... 


Harmony Gold CEO Beyers Nel.
Harmony investing R2bn in underground gold mines, earmarking R1bn for surface gold
21st March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

During this financial year, South Africa’s largest gold mining company will be investing more than R3-billion in its South African assets. “We're on an exciting growth path,” Harmony Gold CEO... 


Implats executive team from left Moses Motlhageng, Meroonisha Kerber, Patrick Morutlwa, Nico Muller and Johan Theron.
Impala firmly intent on prospering on current PGM prices
21st March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The firm intention of South Africa’s Impala Platinum (Implats) is to prosper on current platinum group metals (PGM) prices. This was made clear by Implats CEO Nico Muller during the presentation of... 


Precious Ramushu
Exxaro celebrates women in mining
21st March 2025

Precious Ramushu is a Blasting Technician at Leeuwpan Mine.  She started her career as a graduate intern, where she gained hands on experience in mining and blasting operations. She holds a BTech... 


Platinum group metals and green hydrogen go together.
Anglo American Platinum providing further backing for green hydrogen’s global advance
14th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

JSE-listed Anglo American Platinum and South Africa-linked AP Ventures are supporting the next vital steps towards the realisation of industrial-scale green hydrogen value chains. Both companies... 


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