Under current market conditions, many platinum mines will close prematurely due to a lack of financial resources – and even without financial constraint, closure of depleting mines will result in platinum availability being considerably below the level that has prevailed for the past quarter century, Minerals Council South Africa VP Paul Dunne informed last week’s [...]

National Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson announced on Tuesday that he was establishing an Infrastructure Advisory Committee, in his office, to help drive forward infrastructure development in the country, which was urgently needed. He was delivering the keynote address at the Infrastructure Africa 2024 Conference, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The [...]

As South Africa hosts the Climate Resilience Symposium this week at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, in Pretoria, the country’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change has already become evident, demonstrating the need to speed up and bolster initiatives to mitigate this. This would also require considerable financial resources, President Cyril Ramaphosa [...]

Vertically-integrated renewable-energy solutions provider the Sola Group has celebrated the official commissioning of South Africa’s largest operational wheeling project, which will add 256 MW of renewables capacity to the national grid to power mineral sands miner Tronox Mineral Sands’ operations in the country.   Speaking to Engineering News and Mining Weekly in an exclusive interview [...]

Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Dr Dion George has promised “wide consultation” on South Africa’s next nationally determined contribution (NDC) decarbonisation pledge that will be lodged with the United Nations next year. Delivering his maiden Budget Vote, George stressed that South Africa remained a responsible global citizen and committed to the multilateral rules-based regime [...]

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) said it’s seeking to roll out a tendering model across the continent for the supply of power from renewable energy that’s attracted more than R200-billion in private investment into South Africa. The Independent Power Producers Office, established by the state bank in 2010, has held a series of [...]

The Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) consortium has received the first vessel at the Port of Lobito’s mineral terminal, marking the start of the group’s port operations in Angola. LAR is the concession holder for the operation, management and maintenance of the railway linking Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Huge demand for green ammonia from power stations is being seen by the developer of South Africa’s R105-billion green hydrogen to green ammonia project in the Eastern Cape. But this new development in Europe and the Far East is not going to affect the South African coal industry yet, Hive Hydrogen GM Colin Loubser emphasised [...]

South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) board has approved a 20-year life extension for Koeberg Unit 1, but has deferred a decision on the nuclear power station’s Unit 2 until late 2025, owing to the fact that an assessment of the second reactor’s safety case is still ongoing. The decision, which was announced on July [...]

South Africa’s newly formed government will use an upcoming forum on US preferential trade access to push back against a Senate review of ties between the two countries. The House of Representatives last month passed a law requiring a full assessment off bilateral relations and submitted it to the Senate for approval. South African business [...]

The Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa (Niasa) has “warmly” welcomed Energy and Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa‘s “significant” announcement that the country is close to launching a programme to build 2 500 MW of new nuclear power capacity in the country. New nuclear was part of the energy mix contained in the country’s Integrated Resource [...]

Some of the biggest names in shipping are betting billions of dollars on tankers to transport a type of ammonia that’s scarcely being produced today — wagering it will become integral to the industry’s decarbonisation drive. Firms including Maersk Tankers, two Greek shipping magnates and two top Japanese lines, have collectively ordered $16-billion of vessels, [...]