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Sedibelo Platinum Mines, in South Africa’s North West province, will be playing a very important part in South Africa's green hydrogen effort to ensure that it contributes to a greener South Africa, chairperson Arne Frandsen assured Mining Weekly on Tuesday. Frandsen is the managing partner and co-founder of the Pallinghurst Group and the leading light of the New York- and Toronto-listed Nouveau Monde Graphite, of Canada, businesses that work in close collaboration with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of South Africa and the IDC equivalent in Québec, Investisseme...

Nickel spot prices were significantly lower the last month and LME inventory was slightly lower. Read more on nickel miners here.

To reduce barriers to entry, improve the ease of doing business and support transformation of the mining sector, measures are to be implemented to increase rail and port capacity allocation for emerging miners, Transnet announced on Monday. Improving access to loading facilities, and simplifying the contracting, credit management and capacity application processes are among the initiatives to be taken, the State-owned transport enterprise stated in a release to Mining Weekly, after meeting with emerging miners, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) and finance institutions to p...

South Africa must reform its regulatory environment and make itself investor-friendly – simple. That is the straight-forward view of Dr Mathews Phosa, who was speaking to Mining Weekly in his capacity as the non-executive vice-chairperson of the high-flying Jubilee Metals Group plc, a London Aim- and Johannesburg AltX-listed company that is rolling out an investment of R786-million in South Africa and Zambia.

Annual production of clean hydrogen would need to increase more than sevenfold for the world to hit net zero in 2050, say the leading founders of McKinsey & Company’s platform for climate technologies, Bernd Heid of Cologne, Martin Linder of Munich, and Mark Patel of San Francisco, who add that reaching net-zero emissions will require “an immense effort” to invent, refine, and deploy climate technologies expressly intended to accelerate decarbonisation. In South Africa, PwC states that 80% of South Africa organisations surveyed by it have not yet made a net-zero commitmen...