How imports and exports will impact platinum until 2023
In this long-dated review, I focus on how the relationship between platinum imports and exports impact above-ground stocks and the platinum price. The industry...
Digging for legitimacy: The case for good ESG in mining
ENVIRONMENTAL and social governance (ESG) has, for a long time, been a woolly issue for the mining industry.
Chiefly because there were no hard and fast...
New age in resource consumption as electric vehicle manufacturing is set...
HUMANITY has begun a new chapter in its development, enabled by extraordinary technological advances commensurate with those of the first, second and third industrial...
Zambia expropriation leaves energy firm on brink, and citizens wondering about...
THE Zambian government is panicking. Despite a recent rally, the pandemic has accelerated the dramatic fall in copper prices, leading to a collapse in...
Another nail in JSE’s flailing mining sector as RBPlat bids farewell
THE South African mining story of the year has surely been the epic tussle between Implats and Northam for RBPlats. It is all over...
Mining faces an historic reckoning; the time is now for leaders...
IT is not easy to be a mining executive these days, faced with a global virus pandemic, an economy in recession, a climate crisis...
Rhodium in “fourth major price surge” in history as above ground...
THIS report is unique and different from other market reports on rhodium in so far as it estimates the quantum of above-ground rhodium stocks. I...
Adoption of new, green technologies are the key to solving metals...
THE global trajectory towards a low-carbon future has raised opportunities for the mining sector, but the commodity pipeline – especially for battery minerals –...
Mining can give fresh impetus to role of public-private partnership in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about several challenges for South Africa, its people, and industries such as mining, which is one of the country’s...
Power procurement is a project risk miners dare not get wrong
THE history of the South African mining and energy industries has been tightly intertwined for more than a century and both owe their very...