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Capital achieves fourth consecutive year of strong growth
14th March 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Mining services company Capital CE Peter Stokes says the company is excited for the year ahead after "another great year" in 2023, in which it achieved growth for the fourth consecutive year,... 


Madison Metals CEO Duane Parnham
Madison to pursue traditional funding avenues after lacklustre uranium tokenisation results
14th March 2024 By: Darren Parker

Uranium exploration and development company Madison Metals will pursue more traditional means of raising capital to fund its future efforts, as the company's unique uranium tokenisation strategy... 


Vesconite Hilube bearings perform well in prototype testing for waste-truck ejection system
Vesconite Hilube bearings perform well in prototype testing for waste-truck ejection system
14th March 2024

Vesconite Hilube bearings have performed well in prototype testing on the chain pulleys of a waste truck's ejection system. This is according to Vesconite Bearings, a manufacturer of low-friction,... 


South32 shuffles Australia lead team deck
14th March 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

As South32 prepares for the impending sale of the Illawarra metallurgical coal mine, the company has announced changes to its lead team in Australia. Jason Economidis, currently South32 COO for... 


Exxaro CE Dr Nombasa Tsengwa.
Exxaro declares R5.4bn dividends, green energy business thriving
14th March 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Diversified mining company Exxaro, with interests in the coal, energy and ferrous markets, has declared final and special dividends. The share dividend of R10.10 a share is roughly R3.4-billion and... 


Daybreak Farms Embarks on Governance Transformation Journey under New Leadership
Daybreak Farms Embarks on Governance Transformation Journey under New Leadership
14th March 2024

Daybreak Farms, a vertically integrated poultry business under the ownership of the Public Investment Corporation SOC Ltd (PIC), celebrates a significant governance transformation journey set in... 


International Monetary Fund African development director Abebe Selassie
Crisis of confidence has exacerbated sub-Saharan Africa’s funding squeeze
13th March 2024 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Various shocks have resulted in commodity price pressure and fiscal constraints globally, but sub-Saharan African countries, in particular, have been experiencing a “funding squeeze” as a result of... 


US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo
US Treasury's No 2 urges South Africa to boost fight against corruption
13th March 2024 By: Reuters

US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo on Wednesday urged South Africa to step up its battle against corruption, saying that work could help boost job creation in a country facing an... 


Trade conditions remain tough – Sacci
13th March 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) says the results from its February survey of trade conditions confirm an ongoing rough trade environment that first began to deteriorate... 


Breaking down barriers for women in manufacturing
13th March 2024 By: Shannon de Ryhove

South Africa’s manufacturing industry is a domain that is often perceived as male-dominated, where women face unique challenges entering and thriving. However, industrial and specialty gas... 


Resources Watch
Resources Watch
13th March 2024

This week: Stationary hydrogen power highlighted as major solution by Toyota fuel cell-using developer; automotive demand for platinum expected to hit seven-year high this year and,... 


MCA CEO Tania Constable warns against the oversimplification of traditional commodities as mere
Australia risks losing economic backbone, mining industry warns
13th March 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) CEO Tania Constable has warned that the nation is jeopardising its “economic golden goose” and has called for more support for the mining industry. In an... 


worker's hands, laying cement
Built Environment Indaba to address substandard project delivery, other challenges
12th March 2024 By: Darren Parker

Poor-quality projects, site invasions and inadequate transformation are some of the key issues that will be addressed at the inaugural Built Environment Indaba, which will be held at the Gallagher... 


construction workers on scaffolding
Construction sector mafia targeting executives as well
12th March 2024 By: Darren Parker

The impact of the construction mafia is starting to be felt higher up the food chain, with Black Building Council in the Built Environment (BBCBE) president Danny Masimene noting that executives... 


Redox One CEO THOMAS GEBAUER
Tharisa launches its Redox One energy storage business
12th March 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

Integrated resource group Tharisa has launched its Redox One business, which develops long-term energy storage solutions that incorporate the raw materials produced by Tharisa. The company says its... 


African Rainbow Minerals Executive Chairperson Dr Patrice Motsepe.
Right things are being done with Transnet, right things will be done with Eskom – Motsepe
12th March 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Dr Patrice Motsepe, the founder and chairperson of diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), has expressed confidence in the direction being taken by South Africa’s State transport... 


Restrictions in the aviation sector are hampering economic growth in SADC
12th March 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

The economic potential of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is being constrained by restrictions on the region’s aviation sector. This was highlighted at the recent Southern African... 


SDCEA, groundWork approach court to review Richard's Bay gas-to-power plant
11th March 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Environmental justice groups groundWork and the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), have filed a review application to... 


FNB/BER building confidence index ‘nosedives’ to 27 in the first quarter
11th March 2024 By: Schalk Burger

The FNB/BER Building Confidence Index dropped by 16 points to 27 in the first quarter of this year, from 43 in the fourth quarter of 2023, and four of the six sectors surveyed recorded a decline in... 


Deep Space Initiative executive director and founder Sara Sabry
How to advance African participation in the space industry
11th March 2024 By: Shannon de Ryhove

As the global space industry continues to expand, with new technological advancements and groundbreaking discoveries, it is crucial to address the question of how African countries, including South... 


African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) CEO Phillip Tobias.
ARM CEO commends workforce for heeding clarion call to improve volume, cost, grade
11th March 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Full ownership and execution of factors that are within management’s control are being elevated to the highest possible level by African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) CEO Phillip Tobias. ARM has sharpened... 


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Fortress achieves strong interim performance, simplifies capital structure
11th March 2024 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Real estate company Fortress Real Estate Investments says it successfully simplified its capital structure through the implementation of a single class of share, as well as achieved other... 


Gold bars
Gold pushes toward record as test of $2 200 looms on Fed outlook
11th March 2024 By: Bloomberg

Gold rose toward a record on expectations the US Federal Reserve will move to cut interest rates this year as inflation cools. Bullion for immediate delivery edged higher on Monday after rallying... 


Collaboration between Ericsson, Mugler, and SMS group
11th March 2024

SMS group is one of the first operators of a private 5G network for researching real-time applications for the metallurgical industry The 5G standard enables data to be transmitted up to ten times... 


Aubert & Duval invests in SMS group closed-die forging press for manufacturing innovative forgings to support the decarbonization trend of its main customers
11th March 2024

75 million euros to be invested in new forging technology for the total project Long-standing partnership confirmed Special applications for the aerospace industry New materials and processes for... 


Salzgitter relies on X-Pact® process automation from SMS group to get hot strip mill fit for the future
11th March 2024

Guaranteed high process stability and safety in the hot strip mill thanks to state-of-the-art process technology from SMS group New control concepts enable capacity and productivity increases in... 


Vale CEO to keep job through 2024 as miner seeks successor
Vale CEO to keep job through 2024 as miner seeks successor
11th March 2024 By: Bloomberg

Vale CEO Eduardo Bartolomeo will retain his job through December while one of the world’s biggest mining companies conducts a search for a successor, according to people familiar with the matter.... 


Concorde Cells
Metso launches Concorde Cell flotation technology in Africa
8th March 2024 By: Darren Parker

Process and optimisation technology company Metso has launched the first of its Concorde Cell high-intensity pneumatic flotation units in Africa through local manufacturing partner Betterect, which... 


Yves Vanderhaeghen
Yves Vanderhaeghen
8th March 2024

The sacred Osun River in Nigeria has recorded the highest measured level of microplastics in a river in the world, and researchers are calling for a ban on single-use plastics. Microplastics are... 


DFFE publishes latest biological invasions report
8th March 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The latest ‘National Status of Biological Invasions and their Management in South Africa’ report paints a sobering picture of the multitude of alien species that have taken root in – and threaten –... 


How we Inspire Inclusion on International Women’s Day
How we Inspire Inclusion on International Women’s Day
8th March 2024

By Nimmita Maharaj, Diversity and Transformation Director, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are central to addressing some of the... 


AfriSam has constructed two Grade R classrooms at the GN Pressley Intermediate School
AfriSam and the Northern Cape Department of Education provide a future of possibilities for young learners
8th March 2024

Leading construction materials company, AfriSam, has collaborated with the Northern Cape Department of Education to complete a community development initiative aimed at improving educational... 


South Africa needs a new defence acquisition and maintenance funding model
8th March 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

South Africa needs to develop a new funding model to pay for both the acquisition and maintenance of military equipment. So argued South African Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Industries... 


Image of tables filled with ore from the Springpole project
Springpole gold project, Canada – update
8th March 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

First Mining has received construction permits for a temporary winter road to the exploration camp site. 


LEONARD DE VILLIERS
Challenges have resulted in significant disruptions and inefficiencies in the country’s transportation network
Local expertise needed to address challenges
8th March 2024

Despite having the most advanced railway system on the continent, with about 30 000 km of track, the South African rail and transportation sector is currently facing numerous significant... 


Water technology firm, association ink MoU
8th March 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Water technology company Xylem and the African Water and Sanitation Association (AfWASA) have embarked on an innovative partnership, formalising their strategic and cooperative collaboration... 


An image of degradation of sea cliffs and foredunes
Environmental concerns cloud mineral sands mining
8th March 2024 By: Nadine Ramdass

With the mineral sands mining industry continuing to grow in South Africa, noncompliance with environmental regulations could become significantly costly for the environment and mining companies.... 


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Teraco moves to grow and green SA data-centre footprint
8th March 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Digital transformation is happening in every industry and digitalisation of the economy is intensifying the need for highly available, and sustainable, information and communication technology... 


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Teraco moves to grow and green SA data-centre footprint
8th March 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Digital transformation is happening in every industry and digitalisation of the economy is intensifying the need for highly available, and sustainable, information and communication technology... 


Image of Kusile power plant at night
Kusile power plant project, South Africa – update
8th March 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Eskom has insisted that it is on track to complete the repairs to the ducts in the west stack at the Kusile power station by December 2024. 


Minerals Council highlights progress and challenges of women in mining
7th March 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

With the United Nations having designated the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day as ‘Invest in women: Accelerate progress’, Minerals Council South Africa president and chair of the... 


Strong penalties for exceeding carbon budgets needed for effective Climate Change Act, says Just Share
6th March 2024 By: Schalk Burger

It is critical that the failure to comply with carbon budgets and greenhouse-gas (GHG) mitigation plans by companies emitting GHGs attracts meaningful penalties to ensure that polluters make... 


World Platinum Investment Council Director of Research Edward Sterck.
Automotive demand for platinum expected to hit seven-year high this year
6th March 2024 By: Martin Creamer

This year could potentially turn out to be quite an interesting year for platinum as a commodity and also as an investment, with the 2023 platinum market deficit of 878  000 oz forecast to be... 


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