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Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad says the company has sent technical experts to QB to get to grips with the challenges that the mine faces.
Anglo American-Teck deal hinges on troubled Chile copper mine
12th September 2025 By: Bloomberg

At the heart of one of the mining industry’s most ambitious combinations is a plan to fix a problematic Teck Resources copper mine high in Chile’s Atacama desert, and ultimately to integrate it... 


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Platform helps municipalities manage decentralised energy sources
12th September 2025

As South African municipalities embrace decentralised energy sources to strengthen grid resilience and cut costs, many are discovering that managing small-scale generators is far more complex than... 


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Research in South Africa to unlock aircraft innovation on cutting edge – expert
12th September 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

The investment in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research for aircraft in South Africa is crucial for driving innovation, decarbonising aviation, reducing prototype costs and sustainably... 


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Worries persist despite recent moves to overhaul air traffic entity
12th September 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

South Africa’s aviation sector faces a critical test as recent systemic failures at State-owned Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) disrupt operations and cause delays, triggering safety... 


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Sorby Hills lead/silver/zinc project, Australia – update
12th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Boab Metals has extended its option agreement with Henan Yuguang until December 31, 2025, to acquire the remaining 25% interest in the project.  


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Worries persist despite recent moves to overhaul air traffic entity
12th September 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

South Africa’s aviation sector faces a critical test as recent systemic failures at State-owned Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) disrupt operations and cause delays, triggering safety... 


Kenmare continues with upgrades to WCP A
11th September 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

London-listed Kenmare Resources has started to connect the two new dredges and the new feed preparation unit to its Wet Concentrator Plant (WCP) A, in northern Mozambique. COO Ben Baxter notes in a... 


Standard Bank partners with Mulilo Energy Holdings on a ZAR 7 bn Equity HoldCo facility
Standard Bank partners with Mulilo Energy Holdings on a ZAR 7 bn Equity HoldCo facility
11th September 2025

Standard Bank, Africa’s biggest bank by assets, has finalised terms to provide a landmark corporate facility to pioneering independent power producer, Mulilo Energy Holdings. Mulilo is a leading... 


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Mulilo Energy secures R7bn facility from Standard Bank for growth
11th September 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Renewable energy developer and independent power producer Mulilo Energy has secured an initially R1.1-billion corporate facility from financial services firm Standard Bank to support equity... 


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OMV launches new milling facility in Mpumalanga
10th September 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Aggregate supplier OMV on September 9 launched its new Valkenburgh milling facility at its plant in Witbank, Mpumalanga. The company’s Witbank’s site was previously a storage and trans fill... 


Pan African FD Marileen Kok and Pan African CEO Cobus Loots.
Year of records for booming Pan African as eyes turn to promising Soweto gold project
10th September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Financial year 2025 has been a year of records for South African gold mining company Pan African Resources, which on Wednesday reported record profits, record headline earnings, record proposed... 


Shared Pilbara infrastructure could save Australia $30bn – report
Shared Pilbara infrastructure could save Australia $30bn – report
10th September 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia could save more than $30-billion over the next 25 years if the Pilbara adopts a coordinated approach to electricity transmission and generation infrastructure, according to a new report... 


Early project works undertaken by Concor include establishing access roads, site offices and an on-site batching plant, in preparation for the large volumes of concrete needed for the turbine foundations
Concor progresses on Karreebosch Wind Farm
9th September 2025

Concor has become an important construction partner in South Africa’s wind energy landscape, and recently started work on the Cennergi Holdings and G7 Renewable Energies 140 MW Karreebosch Wind... 


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South Africa's GDP grew 0.8% in the second quarter
9th September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

South Africa’s GDP increased by 0.8% in the second quarter, following an increase of 0.1% in the first quarter of the year, Statistics South Africa has reported. The manufacturing industry... 


African Rainbow Minerals Executive: Growth and Strategic Development in Executive Chairperson’s Office Mike Schmidt.
New game-changing tunnel boring, reef cutting ‘meeting and beating’ all expectations
8th September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Development of the innovative new mining method for narrow tabular steep dipping orebodies and the mobile tunnel boring to enable it are both going exceptionally well. The game-changing... 


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4 200 MW SAPP deficit underscores urgency of regional power integration – Graham-Maré
5th September 2025 By: Darren Parker

Although the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) faces a series of significant obstacles – such as insufficient transmission infrastructure; drought conditions affecting hydropower plants; theft and... 


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Cape Ocean Terminals secures licence to build a petroleum storage facility in Saldanha Bay
5th September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved an application by Cape Ocean Terminals for a combined licence to build a petroleum storage facility in the Saldanha Bay Industrial... 


The Centre of Excellence for Hydrogen Energy in Vanderbijlpark
VUT, Standard Bank to devise practical green hydrogen solutions through new research centre
5th September 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Standard Bank and the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) have officially launched the Centre of Excellence for Hydrogen Energy, on VUT’s campus in Vanderbijlpark. The partners aim to advance... 


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Specialised equipment cuts downtime in refining sector
5th September 2025 By: Devina Haripersad

As a certified authorised distributor of Enerpac, Bosch, AME, HEMS, and Ridgid, providing industrial tooling and hydraulic solutions, Kiloton Hydraulics Pneumatics Tools & Abrasives is helping... 


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EMS solutions reduce grid pressure, enhance supply
5th September 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

Innovations in solar energy, such as off-grid energy solutions company Blockpower’s Blackbox, an energy management system (EMS), allow for energy savings and cost-efficiency, as well as system... 


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Solar trade bolsters supply, promotes cost-efficiency
5th September 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

The growing trade of solar power by independent power producers (IPPs) is playing a pivotal role in South Africa’s rapidly deregulating electricity market. By diversifying the energy mix and... 


LOWERING POWER CONSUMPTION
Rand Refinery has taken a multi-pronged approach to reducing energy consumption, including deploying energy-efficient lighting, variable-speed drives, high-efficiency equipment and power factor correction systems
Precious metals refinery hones efficiency initiatives
5th September 2025 By: Donna Slater

As Africa’s only London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery-accredited precious metals refinery, Germiston, South Africa-based Rand Refinery is implementing initiatives to enhance its energy... 


GOLDEN CATALYST: DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius says the self-generation of solar electricity at Ergo (pictured here with the solar farm in the background) has served as a key life-extension catalyst for the East Rand operation. The 60 MW solar farm and associated battery storage system has reduced the risk previously posed by electricity. Together with the higher gold price, this lowering of risk has unlocked a plan to extend Ergo’s life to beyond 2040 and process a resource previously thought non-viable. Photograph: Creamer Media Chief Photographer Donna Slater
GOLDEN CATALYST
5th September 2025

DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius says the self-generation of solar electricity at Ergo (pictured here with the solar farm in the background) has served as a key life-extension catalyst for the East Rand... 


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Serra Norte Complex, Brazil
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

An iron-ore mine in the state of Pará, in Brazil. 


CLEAN FUEL
Tanks which are used for fuel storage are fitted with BMG’s OMTEC spin-on filters that have been specially designed to clean diesel fuel to ISO 4406 standards
Solutions provider highlights bulk fuel filtration offering
5th September 2025

A growing area of industrial solutions provider BMG’s filtration services is bulk diesel fuel filtration. Tanks which are used for fuel storage are fitted with BMG’s OMTEC spin-on filters that have... 


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Marula Green Power plant, South Africa
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Palabora Mining Company and Mzansi Energy Consortium plan to build a 132 MWp of solar PV capacity. 


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Serra Norte Complex, Brazil
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

An iron-ore mine in the municipality of Parauapebas, state of Pará, in Brazil. 


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Buena Vista iron project, US – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Magnum Mining and Exploration is revisiting its Buena Vista project after a new analysis highlighted its potential for rare-earth elements. 


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Cascabel copper/gold/silver project, Ecuador – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

SolGold is shifting its tax domicile to Switzerland as the company advances the Cascabel project into development. 


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Mine Waste Solutions – Kareerand TSF, South Africa – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Good progress has been made at the expansion project. 


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Prieska Power Reserve project, South Africa – update
5th September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Project development funding is being partly sourced from the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau and South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation. 


The Kayelekera mine in Malawi
Lotus raises A$65m to support uranium growth plans
4th September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX- and OTCQX-listed Lotus Resources has raised about A$65-million through a strongly supported placement, extending its liquidity runway as it ramps up operations at the Kayelekera uranium... 


Lifezone closes $60m bridge loan, explores strategic transactions for Kabanga Nickel
Lifezone closes $60m bridge loan, explores strategic transactions for Kabanga Nickel
2nd September 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

NYSE-listed Lifezone Metals has closed a $60-million bridge loan facility with Taurus Mining Finance Fund No. 2, enabling its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kabanga Nickel, to advance early works and... 


Platinum group metals support every step of the vitally necessary energy transition.
IDC, KfW funding green hydrogen, green ammonia project in solar-rich Northern Cape
2nd September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Project development funding for the Prieska Power Reserve Project is being partly sourced from the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development... 


Imperial Metals wins permit extension for Mount Polley mine
Imperial Metals wins permit extension for Mount Polley mine
1st September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Copper and gold miner Imperial Metals has secured a permit amendment from British Columbia authorities that will allow the company to extend mining activities at its Mount Polley operation. The... 


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Projects in Progress 2025
1st September 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Creamer Media’s ‘Projects in Progress 2025’ report provides an overview of South Africa’s economic development as reflected through major infrastructure projects across energy, transport, water and... 


Harmony Gold CEO Beyers Nel,
Harmony’s starting to show the world that gold mining in South Africa is good business
29th August 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Harmony Gold Mining Company, South Africa’s biggest gold mining company, is proving itself to be a great South African asset and it’s booming at the moment, not only because the gold price is so... 


 Windaba 2025: Time to Talk Grid Solutions – What Should Be on the Table?
Windaba 2025: Time to Talk Grid Solutions – What Should Be on the Table?
29th August 2025

A stable and reliable transmission network is the backbone of any modern energy system, connecting producers to consumers, balancing supply and demand, and enabling the integration of new... 


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Southern Africa sits on swathes of critical mineral reserves, report spotlighting regional case studies reveals
29th August 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

A new report launched by the World Economic Forum (WEF) highlights the urgent need to unlock investment in Southern Africa’s critical minerals to meet surging global demand for clean energy and... 


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Inefficiencies cost fruit export industry R1bn
29th August 2025

Delays and logistical bottlenecks at the Cape Town port, in the Western Cape, cost South Africa’s apple and pear export industry an estimated R1-billion in 2024, according to supply chain solutions... 


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Dry-type transformers gaining traction amid renewables integration
29th August 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

With mining companies increasingly opting for on-site renewable-energy installations to ensure reliable power, and improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials, electrical... 


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Red Sands battery energy storage system project, South Africa
29th August 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Red Sands is the largest standalone battery energy storage system plant in Africa to reach commercial close. 


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Bellefield project, US
29th August 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Bellefield is expected to be the biggest solar-and-storage facility in the US. 


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