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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.)

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 Beers has been investing in South Africa since 1888 and Al Cook, the upbeat new CEO of the De Beers ...

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 Institute DigiMine Laboratory head Ahsan Mahboob told Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview. (Also watch att...

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 Beers has been investing in South Africa since 1888 and Al Cook, the upbeat new CEO of the De Beers ...

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.