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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 November 2022," states renewable energy ...
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 interview. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)
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.