Sentiment in the building construction sector, as measured by the financial services firm FNB and the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Building Confidence Index, slipped to 33 in the fourth... 

Toronto-listed Liberty Gold has significantly derisked the future mining operations of its Black Pine mine, in Idaho, by acquiring the title to two historical water rights, registered to the Black... 

Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, has announced that the company has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage, marking the 5th... 

Only 11% of waste from Africa’s urban areas goes to managed landfills, with much of the rest dumped and often burned. This has had a dramatic impact on human health, with poor air quality linked to... 

Only 11% of waste from Africa’s urban areas goes to managed landfills, with much of the rest dumped and often burned. This has had a dramatic impact on human health, with poor air quality linked to... 

Dual-listed coal miner MC Mining achieved a 5% improvement on run-of-mine coal production from the Uitkomst metallurgical and thermal coal mine, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, in the... 

Sun International has broken ground on a R295-million expansion at its iconic Sun City resort, in the North West. Natasha Odendaal visited the site. 

Canadian explorer West Mining Corporation announced in October that it had received final reports for initial metallurgical and mineralogical testwork completed on the Gold Mountain and Kena Gold... 

A prefeasibility study has highlighted an exceptional long-life project that delivers considerable returns over an initial life-of-mine of 14 years. 

Blencowe Resources has started with a definitive feasibility study on the project. 

Cement producer AfriSam is continuing to promote the reduction of clinker content in its composite cements as a way of reducing carbon emissions. As a long-time developer of composite or extended... 

The BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI) declined further in September to 131.1, notably lower than the all-time high reached just four months ago in May (143.2) and the lowest since... 

After remaining stable at a new record high for three successive quarters, the latest Altron FinTech Household Resilience Index (AFHRI) took a slight dip in the second quarter, both in terms of its... 

Coal miner MC Mining says the financial year ended June 30 was challenging for its Uitkomst Colliery, which was affected by the civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal during July 2021, as well as the... 

Major US group Boeing’s Defence, Space and Security (BDS) business unit has opened its new Advanced Composite Fabrication Centre (ACFC). This is the first of what is intended to be a series of... 

West Africa-focussed explorer Oriole Resources has completed four phases of diamond drilling at its 90%-owned Bibemi gold project, in Cameroon, proving the existence of multiple gold-bearing,... 

CSE-listed exploration and development stage miner Tantalex Lithium Resources reports that heavy liquid separation (HLS) metallurgical test work on a 331 kg composite bulk sample from the K-dump at... 

JSE-listed industrial minerals, bulk commodities and construction materials miner Afrimat reports that, compared with the first quarter of this year, the construction sector managed to increase the... 

Major US aerospace and defence group Northrop Grumman has reported that it has made a significant advance in the additive manufacturing (AM, also called 3D printing) production of carbon/carbon... 

Sometimes, a pandemic is not the worst thing that can happen to a company. When Covid-19 hit, the pandemic did interrupt MellowVans’ global rollout plans, but it also prompted the... 

The world has changed over the last three years. Global trade has fragmented, posing new challenges for manufacturers. The distribution of technology has spread significantly in the last ten years. 

Coal miner MC Mining’s share price on the JSE rose by 15% on the afternoon of August 30, after the company announced that it had determined a preferred development option for its Makhado hard... 

The renewable energy plans of the Booysendal platinum group metals (PGMs) mine of Northam Platinum have been detailed quite extensively in the company’s 95-page sustainability report that will be... 

Platinum group metals company Northam, which refined 9.7% more metal than the prior year in the 12 months to June 30, on Friday forecast capital expenditure (capex) of R5.4-billion for the current... 

Financial services company Santam’s leading construction and engineering underwriting manager, Mirabilis, operates in an industry historically dominated by men. However, its office is efficiently... 

Over the past 41 years De-Tect Unit Inspection & Cooperheat of Africa has grown into one of the leading companies providing specialised inspection, non-destructive testing (NDT), and thermal... 

A scoping study into the Flanagan Bore manganese project, in Western Australia, has confirmed that the project could produce at an average rate of 1.8-million tonnes a year over a 20-year mine... 

Sometimes, a pandemic is not the worst thing that can happen to a company. When Covid-19 hit, the pandemic did interrupt MellowVans’ global rollout plans, but it also prompted the... 

  US-based global major aerospace group Boeing announced, in Tokyo, on Monday, that it was establishing a new ‘Boeing Research & Technology’ (BR&T) centre in Japan. This follows the recent... 

A copper/molybdenum mine in south-central British Columbia, Canada. 

The Altron FinTech Household Resilience Index (AFHRI) is in “stable territory” with a consistent improvement, during the first quarter of 2022, in the disposable income of South African households... 

Graphite, nickel and copper developer Blencowe Resources has completed a prefeasibility study (PFS) for its flagship Orom-Cross graphite project, in Uganda, on time and under budget. The PFS... 

Aim-listed Firering Strategic Minerals CEO Yuval Cohen says the systematic and targeted approach to exploration and fieldwork at the company’s flagship Atex lithium/tantalum project, in Côte... 

JSE-listed industrial minerals, commodities and construction material openpit mining company Afrimat has released the findings of the Afrimat Construction Index (ACI) for the first quarter of the... 

The first quarter Altron FinTech Household Resilience Index (AFHRI) is in “stable territory” with a consistent improvement in the disposable income of South African households and their ability to... 

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) on Monday released the first image produced by its latest instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope. The image, designated Webb’s First... 

Gibela unveiled the one-hundredth X’trapolis Mega commuter train it is building for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa on July 4. 

US sub-orbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic (not to be confused with spun-off and now separate sister company Virgin Orbit) announced on Wednesday that it had ordered two new ‘mothership’... 

Aim-listed BlueRock Diamonds has signed a loan note subscription agreement with Teichmann Company, T-Three-Drilling and three Teichmann employees, for an aggregate £1.6-million. Under the... 

ASX- and Aim-listed Aura Energy has achieved an average 550% increase in uranium grade through pilot scale confirmatory results from simple screening techniques carried out at its Tiris uranium... 

Although the Afrimat Construction Index (ACI) has marginally outperformed South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate during the first quarter of 2022 on a year-on-year basis, the index... 

Leading the market in reducing clinker content in its composite cements, AfriSam has been a trailblazer in cutting carbon emissions in one of the economy’s most energy-intensive sectors. Hannes...