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Innovation strengthens storage confidence
7th November 2025 By: Devina Haripersad

The growth of renewable energy and large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESSs) across Africa is accelerating, but it also introduces new safety challenges that demand advanced fire... 


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HPHT valves improve flow control operations
7th November 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

A partnership between valve product and solutions supplier Brimis Engineering (Brimis) and Germany-based valve manufacturer ProValve Armaturen (ProValve) will result in the latest high-pressure,... 


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Partnership helps meet increased demand
7th November 2025

Aligning with growing linear motion technology demands, linear motion systems specialists Rollon has partnered with industrial solutions provider BMG to deliver high-performance solutions for... 


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Effective treatment aids equipment life
7th November 2025 By: Nadine Ramdass

As application owners aim to maximise oil use, bearings and lubrication systems, manufacturer SKF’s RecondOil Box advanced oil-treatment solution improves oil cleanliness, allowing for its reuse... 


Location map of the Makhado project
Makhado steelmaking hard coking coal project, South Africa – update
7th November 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Key milestones have been achieved, despite some construction delays. 


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Titanium beneficiation complex, South Africa – update
7th November 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The African Development Bank has approved financing to support the development, construction and operation of the manufacturing plant. 


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Steenkampskraal Monazite Mine, South Africa – update
7th November 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

The first tranche of funding has been released by the Industrial Development Corporation. 


AC Valves
AC Valves
7th November 2025

Established in 1998, AC Valves (ACV) is a proudly South African manufacturer and supplier of high-quality knife gate valves and actuated valve solutions for the mining, industrial and municipal... 


Clean TeQ awarded A$19m contract for Rio Tinto’s Rincon project
Clean TeQ awarded A$19m contract for Rio Tinto’s Rincon project
6th November 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

ASX-listed Clean TeQ Water has been awarded a $12.5-million (A$19.2-million) contract by Rincon Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, for the Rincon lithium project in Argentina’s Salta... 


Oranges in a box
AIIM acquires 70% stake in Port Elizabeth Cold Storage
6th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Infrastructure investment managers African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) has acquired a 70% stake in Port Elizabeth Cold Storage (PECS) in the Coega Port Zone, in the Eastern Cape. The... 


Industry calls for minimum local-content specifications in private grid projects
Industry calls for minimum local-content specifications in private grid projects
6th November 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Following consultations with the Department of Energy and Electricity (DEE) on an initiative to procure new grid infrastructure from private consortiums, local Industry has again urged government... 


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Sappi shifting focus to North America, debt reduction
6th November 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Diversified industrial business Sappi delivered adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, special items and plantation fair value price adjustment (Ebitda) of... 


Electra resumes construction of cobalt sulphate refinery
Electra resumes construction of cobalt sulphate refinery
6th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Critical minerals company Electra Battery Materials has restarted construction of its cobalt sulphate refinery in Ontario after securing about $82-million in financing, including $48-million in... 


The importance of building a long-term field service strategy to attain sustainable value
The importance of building a long-term field service strategy to attain sustainable value
6th November 2025

By: Paul Steyn - Project Manager for Field Services, Anglophone Africa, Schneider Electric While many organisations concentrate on immediate returns and reactive field services, establishing a... 


Beyond backup - the power of the three-phase UPS
Beyond backup - the power of the three-phase UPS
6th November 2025

South African economy continues to deal with the realities of unpredictable power supply, be it voltage dips, spikes, and brownouts which are often more disruptive than load shedding itself.  In... 


scrap metal
AMSA calls for urgent review of new scrap metal policy
5th November 2025 By: Darren Parker

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has called for the immediate suspension and review of recently amended regulations governing the price preference system (PPS) for scrap metal, warning... 


$200m Exim backing for Pumpkin Hollow
$200m Exim backing for Pumpkin Hollow
5th November 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Toronto-based Kinterra Capital has secured an indicative $200-million financing commitment from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Exim) under the agency’s Make More in America... 


A DRC cobalt mine
Can Africa ride critical minerals wave to economic boom?
5th November 2025 By: Reuters

As global powers scramble for critical minerals, African countries are pushing for new investment to process more of their own raw materials and meet their people's demands for economic growth and... 


Forging East Africa’s digital transformation for industries, through a skilled business ecosystem
Forging East Africa’s digital transformation for industries, through a skilled business ecosystem
5th November 2025

By: Ifeanyi Odoh  - Country President, Schneider Electric East Africa In East Africa, we’re experiencing an exciting period of business growth driven, in part, by digital transformation and its... 


Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne
Canada launches C$2bn Critical Minerals Sovereign Fund
5th November 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Canada will establish a $2-billion Critical Minerals Sovereign Fund to accelerate investment in strategic mining projects and strengthen national security supply chains, Finance Minister... 


Resources Watch
Resources Watch
5th November 2025

This week: SEW-EURODRIVE showcases fast, reliable drive solutions for coal mining sector and, Pilot Crushtec demonstrates innovation, sustainability in crushing solutions at Coal Africa 2025 


Milkor UAVs
Milkor puts spotlight on its 380 UAV
4th November 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

South African defence and aerospace company Milkor has, with the upcoming G20 Summit in Johannesburg now only a few weeks away, highlighted the capabilities of its Milkor 380 medium-altitude... 


 Engineering inspection of concrete test cubes.
As Joburg's gold begins to re-show, Pilgrim’s Rest gold plant project accelerates
4th November 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Johannesburg and Pilgrim’s Rest, two locations steeped in South African gold mining history, are both making it clear that their gold resources are far from done. Mining Weekly chalked up reads... 


hand rolling dice that say fossil/green energy
PCC welcomes release of South Africa’s updated energy, climate plans
4th November 2025 By: Darren Parker

The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) has welcomed government’s recent approval and release of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2025 and the revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)... 


Private capital in action: How Fedgroup fuelled GeT Metal’s growth
Private capital in action: How Fedgroup fuelled GeT Metal’s growth
4th November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

In a business environment where traditional lenders often move at a slower pace and rely on rigid frameworks, private capital has emerged as a credible, strategic alternative for ambitious businesses. 


Introducing SE Advisory Services
Introducing SE Advisory Services
4th November 2025

Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, today announced the launch of SE Advisory Services, its flagship global consulting brand.  SE Advisory Services provides a broad range of... 


Recycling bodies strongly reject amendments to scrap price preference system
Recycling bodies strongly reject amendments to scrap price preference system
4th November 2025

Three recycling organisations have strongly rejected the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa’s (Itac’s) amendments to the price preference system (PPS) for scrap metal,... 


Cheslyn Jacobs
TymeBank appoints new CEO
3rd November 2025 By: Darren Parker

Digital bank TymeBank has received approval from the South African Reserve Bank’s Prudential Authority to appoint Cheslyn Jacobs as its new CEO, effective January 1, 2026. Jacobs will succeed Karl... 


Itac confirms modest reduction in ferrous scrap discount in newly Gazetted guidelines
Itac confirms modest reduction in ferrous scrap discount in newly Gazetted guidelines
3rd November 2025 By: Terence Creamer

The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has Gazetted only modest changes to the contentious price preference system (PPS) for scrap metal, reducing the discount for... 


Minerals Council CEO Mzila Mthenjane
Minerals Council details contribution to the economy, livelihoods
3rd November 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Industry body Minerals Council South Africa finds in its latest 'Mining Matters' report that the local industry provided R470-billion in household income in 2024, which demonstrates its role in... 


Alice Lane
Solid industrial property demand bolsters higher distributable income for Redefine
3rd November 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

JSE-listed Redefine Properties has delivered a 7.8% year-on-year increase in its distributable income to R3.6-billion for the financial year ended August 31, compared with distributable income of... 


IDC CEO Mmakgoshi Lekhethe and PIC CEO Patrick Dlamin at the singing of the MoU
IDC and PIC agree to explore investment opportunities
3rd November 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) have signed a new memorandum of understanding under which the two State institutions will explore... 


Teck outlines Quebrada Blanca ramp-up progress, merger benefits with Anglo American
Teck outlines Quebrada Blanca ramp-up progress, merger benefits with Anglo American
3rd November 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Canadian major Teck Resources on Monday reported that it was advancing the ramp-up of its Quebrada Blanca (QB) copper project in Chile and highlighted the long-term value potential of its planned... 


Standard Bank providing R1.92bn equity financing for renewable energy cluster
3rd November 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Financial company Standard Bank has closed a bespoke R1.92-billion equity financing solution for black-owned infrastructure investment and development company H1 Holdings. The funding solution,... 


China cuts gold tax exemption as state bank stops gold product enrollments
3rd November 2025 By: Reuters

A Chinese state bank closed retail gold accounts to new investors on Monday, two days after Beijing tweaked a long-standing tax exemption for the metalthat is likely to hit retail demand in the... 


West Wits Mining CEO Rudi Deysel (left) at decline with Mining Weekly's Martin Creamer.
Golden City being put back on gold map by exciting new West Wits gold project
3rd November 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Mining Weekly has just visited West Wits Mining, where Johannesburg’s former golden glow is beginning to re-show – and at a cracking pace. The gold project is a close 15 km west of Johannesburg’s... 


Standard Bank Delivers R1.92bn Equity Financing towards Africa’s Largest Hybrid Renewable Energy Cluster
3rd November 2025

Standard Bank, Africa’s biggest bank by assets, is proud to announce the successful close of a bespoke R1.92 billion equity financing solution for H1 Holdings (H1), a leading Black-owned... 


Chris Yelland
Opinion: Risks identified in Eskom’s 2026–2030 system adequacy outlook require a critical balancing act
3rd November 2025

In this article, EE Business Intelligence MD Chris Yelland writes that Eskom's 'Medium-Term System Adequacy Outlook 2026–2030' report portrays a power system entering a delicate transition and that... 


Exxaro CEO Ben Magara
Exxaro completes sale of its FerroAlloys business to BBBEE consortium
3rd November 2025 By: Darren Parker

Coal miner Exxaro Resources has announced the successful completion of the sale of its entire shareholding in Exxaro FerroAlloys to a consortium made up of FerroAlloys employees, FerroAlloys... 


China’s massive African mine threatens to upend the iron-ore market
China’s massive African mine threatens to upend the iron-ore market
3rd November 2025 By: Bloomberg

In April 1998, a young geologist and his team set out from the village of Moribadou and trekked for six hours through the Guinea Highlands, a densely forested plateau that spreads across four... 


Uitkomst Colliery
Makhado project progressing well, Uitkomst improvement plan approved
31st October 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Coal miner MC Mining has reported that the development of the Makhado project, in Limpopo, progressed well during the quarter ended September 30, with key milestones achieved despite experiencing... 


Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa
Amid delay to private grid tender, Ramokgopa indicates willingness to pay ‘premium’ to unlock industrialisation
31st October 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Rampkgopa has indicated that South Africa should be willing to pay a premium to ensure that the multi-billion-rand expansion of the electricity grid... 


rail cars wheels
Wabtec–Lucchini partnership marks R47m boost for South Africa’s rail manufacturing sector
31st October 2025 By: Darren Parker

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) has welcomed the forthcoming launch of a strategic partnership between train technology company Wabtec South Africa and railway wheels... 


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