The three-year construction of the Senqu bridge is set to start soon. 

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) announced late last week that it had chosen August 29 as the date for its first launch attempt of its Artemis I Moon mission. The backup... 

Diversified engineering company Iritron has defied the odds brought on by supply chain challenges as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, by winning a multimillion-rand, cross-border project that... 

All major and long-lead-time process plant equipment contracts for the Araguaia project have been awarded. 

Fortune Minerals has secured an extension to the option period to buy the JFSL Field Services brownfield site, in Alberta, where it plans to build the NICO hydrometallurgical refinery. 

Pretoria-based automation company Iritron is involved in an expansion project at a manganese mine in Gabon. Owner Comilog is the world’s second largest high-grade manganese producer, says Iritron... 

Savannah has reported that the project faces an additional environmental licensing step. 

Nickel developer Horizonte Minerals has awarded all major and long-lead-time process plant equipment contracts for its flagship Araguaia project, in Brazil. Following completion of the competitive... 

The Nimba Development Company has started with a preliminary technical information exchange process with the government of Guinea. 

Battery anode materials company EcoGraf has appointed experienced executive Dale Harris as COO to drive the development of its integrated battery graphite businesses. Harris spent 20 years working... 

Lake Resources has appointed project finance institutions Citi and JP Morgan as joint coordinators for its Kachi lithium project. 

South Africa is bracing for a repeat of last season’s locust swarms, the worst in decades, and is banking on a tracking technology backed by the institute of Microsoft Corp’s late co-founder, Paul... 

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner space capsule successfully landed in the western US, early Thursday morning (00h49) South African time. This marked the end of the Starliner’s second uncrewed orbital... 

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 02h28 South African time on Saturday. Members of the ISS crew opened the Starliner’s hatch at... 

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space capsule was successfully launched, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the US... 

The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has launched procurement activities for a Programme Management Unit for management, oversight and reporting during implementation of Phase II of the... 

Alamos Gold is getting closer to completing an updated mine plan for its Island Gold mine. 

Kore Potash has started a detailed review of the optimisation study on the Kola project. 

Verder are delighted to announce that our Verderflex Dura 65 peristaltic hose pump has won the Global Business Excellence Award for Outstanding New Product/Service. The chairman of the judges said... 

Lake Resources has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with motoring major Ford Motor Company over the potential supply of lithium from the Kachi project. 

Kore Potash has received an enhancement study for its Kola project. 

The tender for the construction of the Polihali Operations Centre has been awarded. 

A three- to six-month delay in POX-2’s original schedule is expected, mostly owing to logistical challenges.  

OZ Minerals has announced a decision to increase the hoisting shaft capacity at Prominent Hill. 

Vulcan Energy Resources has signed its first geothermal energy offtake agreement at its Zero Carbon lithium project. 

Lake Resources has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan’s Hanwa Co for the supply of up to 25 000 t/y of lithium carbonate over a ten-year period from the Kachi project. 

Alamos Gold has been approved to ramp up construction activities on the Island Gold Phase 3 expansion. 

The Nimba project is considered one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in the world. 

Lake Resources has confirmed that the production base case on the Kachi project will be increased in the definitive feasibility to be released in mid-2022.  

Kore Potash expects to finalise an optimisation study report for the Kola project before the end of the quarter. 

Fortune Minerals has selected a site for its proposed brownfield hydrometallurgical refinery for the NICO project.  

Ivanhoe Liberia is developing what is considered to be one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in the world. 

The construction of permanent housing, a visitors’ lodge and associated infrastructure at the Polihali Village is set to start this month. 

Vulcan Energy Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding and termsheet with European chemicals producer Nobian to assess the feasibility of jointly developing Vulcan's central lithium plant. 

Queensland Pacific Minerals announced a A$30-million capital raise and conditional finance support from Export Finance Australia in December 2021 for up to A$250-million of debt funding for its... 

Toronto-based Innovation Metals Corporation (IMC) says commissioning of its demonstration-scale rare earth separation and purification pilot plant, in Ontario, will start in the first quarter of... 

Twelve more companies in the lithium supply chain including Rio Tinto, BASF and Sibanye Stillwater have joined a global trade association for the material used to make batteries for electric... 

The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has awarded the construction contract for the Katse Village upgrades. 

Guinea-focused developer Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée (SMFG) chairperson Guy de Selliers and SMFG CEO Mamady Youla have announced the positive findings of its prefeasibility study (PFS) for... 

Emerging African phosphate developer Kropz’s Elandsfontein project, in South Africa, remains on schedule, albeit tight, and within the original projected capital budget for commissioning next... 

Hatch has announced a Series A investment in augmented business intelligence firm, Brainnwave. The two organizations have formed a co-venture to focus on developing applications and products... 

Kore Potash has received an interim report from Summit Consortium of the results of an optimisation study on the Kola potash project.