South32 lifts cash, maxes aluminium, and reports progress on SAEC, Seriti...
SOUTH32 kicked off its 2020 financial year in fine form boosting net cash, operating its aluminium smelters in southern Africa at full pelt whilst its...
SA’s Eskom to cut 2,000MW from grid as load-shedding makes unwelcome...
LOAD-SHEDDING, or rotational power cuts, returned to South Africa after the country's power utility said shortages would see it reduce 2000MW in supply from...
Hwange Colliery limps through 2019 promising higher production rates, again
TOTAL liabilities for Hwange Colliery Company (HCC) in Zimbabwe exceed assets by $19m, casting uncertainty on the ability of the coal miner – currently...
RMB owner FirstRand declines to endorse climate change resolution for November...
NON-governmental organisations, RAITH Foundation and Just Share were critical of banking group FirstRand's refusal to endorse a proposed resolution for its annual general meeting...
Thermal coal “in constant state of decline or decay,” says former...
A FORMER coal industry executive, Kevin Crutchfield, who has now moved into salt mining, said in a report by Bloomberg News republished on Yahoo...
Eskom’s Mabuza calls on SA’s coal producers to put national interest...
ESKOM chairman and acting CEO, Jabu Mabuza, on Thursday appealed to the utility’s suppliers, both coal miners and renewable energy producers, to put the...
Cutting coal costs to Eskom not the first resort, says Deloitte’s...
WASTAGE in the value chain ought to be eliminated first before cutting coal prices supplied to Eskom, said Andrew Lane, energy, resources and industrials...
SA cabinet to discuss IRP next week, says Mantashe who makes...
THE finalised draft of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), South Africa's blueprint for its energy mix to 2050, will be discussed by cabinet next...
South32 says community unrest, illegal mining damaging to SA’s competitive edge
COMMUNITY unrest and illegal mining were singled out as two issues "which had to stop" if South Africa’s mining sector was to regain its...
Coal permits still likely to be granted, says environment minister, Creecy
THE transition to a low carbon economy might take longer than environmentalists might like, said Business Maverick citing South African environment minister, Barbara Creecy...