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Legislation is being prepared to begin overhauling South Africa’s corruption-prone public procurement system. Terence Creamer discusses what some of these changes might look like.  

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer recycled platinum group metals; the International Council on Mining and Metals'  focus on aluminium, copper, silicon, steel to accelerate the circular economy; and the Wits University carbon storage brainstorming ‘techathon’ that Sibanye-Stillwater is funding.  

A hydro turbine company based in Portland, Maine, USA, has chosen Vesconite Bearings’ lowest-friction material for the thrust bearings on its free-stream turbines. The material, Vesconite Superlube, has one of the lowest coefficients of friction of any plain bearing material available, with a coefficient of friction lower than virgin PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). "Thrust bearings made from this material were first ordered in June 2022 and installed in Novemb...

A wide range of industries, which require considerable production volumes that platinum group metals (PGMs) can help to provide, are being developed and ramped up, such as in the production of ammonia, methanol or e-fuels, says SFA Oxford CEO Henk de Hoop. As that ramps up in coexistence with other PGM-consuming industries in the hydrogen fuel cell sector, new sectors of demand are expected to become increasingly important for PGMs, adds De Hoop, who was talking to Mining Weekly in a Zoom i...

Independent research commissioned by Rio Tinto group’s Richards Bay Minerals to benchmark what works for community trusts and conversely what fails, was this week shared with South Africa as a whole in a media briefing. The report comes about following Richards Bay Minerals being prone to considerable past violence, including the murder two years ago to the day of GM Nico Swart and the murder nearly three years ago of Richards Bay Minerals-linked community leader Judia Mbuyazi.

A wide range of industries, which require considerable production volumes that platinum group metals (PGMs) can help to provide, are being developed and ramped up, such as in the production of ammonia, methanol or e-fuels, says SFA Oxford CEO Henk de Hoop. As that ramps up in coexistence with other PGM-consuming industries in the hydrogen fuel cell sector, new sectors of demand are expected to become increasingly important for PGMs, adds De Hoop, who was talking to Mining Weekly in a Zoom i...

Like a diamond itself, diamond investment in South Africa is having a ‘forever’ tag pinned on its back as the world’s largest diamond company by value speaks glowingly of its $2-billion investment that is turning South Africa’s Limpopo province into one that hosts the world’s most advanced underground diamond mine, and how Gauteng province is progressively laying on sparkling local beneficiation consolidation in the promising Gauteng Industrial Development Zone. De ...

Johannesburg- and New York listed platinum group metals, green metals and gold mining company Sibanye-Stillwater is funding a brainstorming ‘techathon’ on the challenge of storing carbon in suitable host rock environments in underground mines as part of an environmental protection imperative. “We have recently started research where the focus is to find the suitable places underground where we can store the carbon,” University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Mining Inst...

Like a diamond itself, diamond investment in South Africa is having a ‘forever’ tag pinned on its back as the world’s largest diamond company by value speaks glowingly of its $2-billion investment that is turning South Africa’s Limpopo province into one that hosts the world’s most advanced underground diamond mine, and how Gauteng province is progressively laying on sparkling local beneficiation consolidation in the promising Gauteng Industrial Development Zone. De ...

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses calls for a new mining vision amid release of exploration funds; Platinum’s deficit prediction is up 77% this year, close to a million ounces; and Pan African Resources’ agreement with Juwi Renewable Energies for a solar PV plant in Mpumalanga.