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PGM volatility, global green hydrogen progress, green finance make headlines
PGM volatility, global green hydrogen progress, green finance make headlines
28th March 2025

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks Anglo American Platinum's belief that growing co-product revenue is helping to provide pushback against PGM price volatility; Namibia, India, China,... 


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South Africa Inc must get cracking on EU’s platinum, green hydrogen opportunity
28th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Last month's EU-South Africa Summit in Cape Town was a real eye-opener. It showed the depth of insight that Europe has in South Africa’s platinum group metals (PGMs) endowment, the ability of our... 


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Specialised coatings and thermal protection are applied to prevent degradation and extend the crane’s service life
Manufacturer completes crane project for platinum mine
28th March 2025 By: Simone Liedtke

South African overhead crane manufacturer RGM Cranes in December 2024 successfully completed the design, manufacture and installation of a high-capacity ladle handling crane at a platinum mine,... 


Marathon positioned as strategic shield against global supply chain risks – CEO
Marathon positioned as strategic shield against global supply chain risks – CEO
27th March 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

As disruptions to the global mineral supply chain continue to mount, Canada’s Marathon copper and palladium project is positioning itself as a critical counterweight. On Thursday, Generation Mining... 


Anglo American Platinum marketing and market development executive Hilton Ingram.
Co-products providing resilience against PGM price volatility, Anglo Platinum reports
26th March 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... 


Enpower Trading CEO James Beatty with Ivanhoe Mines senior legal counsel Natalie Harten
Ivanplats signs ten-year green-electricity deal with Enpower for Platreef
26th March 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Registered energy trader Enpower Trading has signed a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with platinum mine developer Ivanplats for the yearly delivery of 48.30 GWh of renewable electricity to... 


Rough diamonds and diamond jewellery
Anglo starts talks with banks on possible De Beers IPO
26th March 2025 By: Bloomberg

Anglo American has begun initial talks with banks about listing its De Beers diamond unit, according to people familiar with the matter, as the company looks to move ahead with the final and most... 


Master Drilling CEO Danie Pretorius.
Master Drilling pays nigh-R100m dividend, moves needle on South Africa’s mining front
25th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Drilling and mechanised rock excavation technology solutions company Master Drilling, which was established in 1986 and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited in 2012, has declared a... 


Anglo American Platinum CEO and his leadership team.
Demerging AngloPlat has confidence in outlook for planet-friendly platinum group metals
24th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Confidence in the outlook for platinum group metals (PGMs) was expressed at the capital markets day of Anglo American Platinum, which is on its way to becoming the demerged and standalone Valterra... 


dtic calls for public comment on proposed designation of Fetakgomo-Tubatse SEZ
24th March 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau has published the intention to designate the Fetakgomo-Tubatse as a special economic zone (SEZ) for public comment. The proposed SEZ will be... 


Platinum mining is largest mining employer.
Namibia, India, China, Europe, Australia, Scotland, Bulgaria advancing green hydrogen
24th March 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... 


Platinum has been biggest mining employer since 2006
Platinum has been biggest mining employer since 2006
21st March 2025

Platinum and coal have outpaced gold in terms of people employed in South Africa. The country has more than 80% of the world’s platinum group metal deposits and the number of people working in... 


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Sustainability, innovation imperative to accessing private capital
21st March 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

The need to ensure that Africa, with an abundance of critical minerals, benefits from their extraction and beneficiation, and the consequent economic development, was a key takeaway from this... 


African mining solutions towards auto sector proposed
21st March 2025 By: Donna Slater

A range of solutions for commodity-rich African countries to work on with the automotive sector in a re-think of industrial policy around critical minerals were proposed during a high-level... 


Amplats' Union mine
Amplats proposes name change to Valterra Platinum
20th March 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

JSE-listed Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) will hold its AGM on May 8 and has proposed changing its name to Valterra Platinum. This comes ahead of its unbundling from parent company Anglo American. 


Nedbank CIB Markets Research Head Arnold van Graan.
PGM market adjusts to shifting supply and demand, Nedbank CIB reports
20th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Shifting investment priorities and geopolitical uncertainty continue to shape the outlook for commodities, with platinum group metals (PGMs) facing unique pressures, Nedbank CIB markets research... 


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Wesizwe’s results delayed by December cyberattack
20th March 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

JSE-listed Wesizwe Platinum’s audited annual financial statements, integrated annual report and notice of AGM for the year ended December 31, 2024, have been delayed, owing to a cyberattack... 


Globally rated metals & mining analyst and portfolio manager Shamim Mansoor.
Beneficiation: Govt, mining companies must get on with it – together, analyst urges
20th March 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... 


Gold climbs to record high as Fed signals two rate cuts in 2025
Gold climbs to record high as Fed signals two rate cuts in 2025
20th March 2025 By: Reuters

Gold rose to an all-time high on Thursday as the Federal Reserve hinted at two possible interest rate cuts this year, bolstering bullion's appeal amid ongoing geopolitical and economic woes. Spot... 


Poilievre pledges money, fast approvals for Canada’s Ring of Fire mining region
Poilievre pledges money, fast approvals for Canada’s Ring of Fire mining region
20th March 2025 By: Bloomberg

The head of Canada’s Conservative Party says a government led by him would aim to approve all federal permits for Ontario’s Ring of Fire minerals region within six months to speed the harvesting of... 


Aurion, KoBold Metals strike Finland critical minerals exploration deal
19th March 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Canadian explorer Aurion Resources has signed a deal with US-based KoBold Metals to advance critical minerals exploration on a portion of its Risti property in Finland. The agreement grants KoBold... 


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Platinum boosted by EU backing, LBMA wants action across gold value chain, mindfulness and vigilance grow crucial
19th March 2025

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks platinum recently being given a major boost with EU backing; the London Bullion Market Association calling for action along the entire gold value chain;... 


Resources Watch
Resources Watch
19th March 2025

This week: South Africa can return to being global ferroalloy hub, ARM’s Andre Joubert reiterates; ‘Very promising’ narrow-reef boring technology nearing rollout stage, ARM reports; and, Exxaro... 


Exxaro's Cennergi renewables capacity more than 437 MW.
Exxaro bullish on renewables, foresees decade of significant green energy growth
18th March 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... 


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Gold hits record high as tariff uncertainty fuels safe-haven demand
18th March 2025 By: Reuters

Gold prices scaled a record peak above the crucial $3 000-mark on Tuesday for the second time in a week, as investors sought cover from economic concerns fuelled by US President Donald Trump's... 


Fakude, Mkhwanazi, Daley step down as Amplats nonexec directors
17th March 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Nolitha Fakude, Themba Mkhwanazi and Matt Daley have stepped down as nonexecutive directors of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and consequently from the board committees they serve on, with... 


A hydrogen powered truck at Anglo American Platinum's Mogalakwena mine
Coronation takes new look at platinum stocks as EV sales slow
17th March 2025 By: Bloomberg

The slowdown in sales of electric vehicles worldwide has prompted Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. to take a fresh look at South African producers of precious metals used in traditional gasoline... 


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
14th March 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... 


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On-The-Air (14/03/2025)
14th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

This Friday, SAfm’s radio anchor Jon Gericke spoke to Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News & Mining Weekly. Reported here is this Friday’s At the Coalface transcript: Gericke:... 


Anglo American signage outside an office
Anglo American plans fresh job cuts as part of restructuring
14th March 2025 By: Bloomberg

Anglo American is planning more job cuts at its corporate office, as it restructures its business by selling assets and spinning off its platinum unit. The company has sent notices to employees who... 


Acting Exxaro CEO Riaan Koppeschaar.
Exxaro boosting small business, education, post-mining economies, farming ventures
13th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

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... 


Platinum ingots
PGMs, iron-ore, coal drag mining production down by 2.7% in January
13th March 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Statistics South Africa reports that mining production decreased by 2.7% year-on-year in January, with the largest negative contributors having been iron-ore, platinum group metals (PGM) and coal.... 


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Botswana Diamonds applies for 11 prospecting licences following AI programme
13th March 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds has applied for 11 prospecting licences to secure key polymetallic targets identified by the company’s recent AI-driven exploration programme in Botswana. The... 


An image showing the Mogalakwena mine complex
Amplats’ Mogalakwena mine achieves IRMA 50 on responsible mining standard
13th March 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Platinum group metals (PGM) miner Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats’) Mogalakwena mine complex, in Limpopo, has achieved an Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) 50 measurement.... 


Ben Magara
Seasoned campaigner Ben Magara to assume Exxaro CEO role from April 1
13th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Mining veteran Bennetor (Ben) Magara has been appointed as the new incoming CEO of Exxaro Resources, effective from April 1. Magara, a mining engineer with more than 35 years of mining industry... 


African Rainbow Minerals executive: growth and strategic development in the executive chairperson’s office Mike Schmidt.
‘Very promising’ narrow-reef boring technology nearing rollout stage, ARM reports
12th 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,... 


Rhodium market hits 20-month high after Amplats' bid
Rhodium market hits 20-month high after Amplats' bid
12th March 2025 By: Reuters

Rhodium prices have leapt to their highest in 20 months, as buying interest from Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) coincided with strong demand and lower first-quarter output in South Africa, two... 


Resources Watch
Resources Watch
12th March 2025

This week: Harmony Gold well down the track with its cost-effective renewable-energy build; Platinum deficit worsens beyond forecast, World Platinum Investment Council reports and, Harmony... 


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Orion’s interim performance reflects continued focus on exploration of key projects
11th March 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals' work programmes during the interim period to December 31, 2024, focused on the progression of definitive feasibility studies (DFS) for the company’s flagship... 


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
11th 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... 


DMRE denies allegations that it is ignoring claims of illegal sugilite mining
10th March 2025 By: Darren Parker

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has denied allegations from PP Gemstones that it is ignoring illegal sugilite mining by Black Rock mine and failing to respond to legal... 


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Local mining contractor continues to meet diverse needs
8th March 2025

South Africa-based opencast mining contractor Trollope offers a range of services, including opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, mine infrastructure development, bulk earthworks,... 


African Rainbow Minerals Executive Chairperson Dr Patrice Motsepe.
African Rainbow Minerals is confident platinum group metals pricing will increase
7th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Dr Patrice Motsepe, the executive chairperson of the diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals, on Friday expressed confidence that platinum group metal (PGM) prices will increase in the... 


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