Last week, Swedish Stirling, a clean technology company that converts toxic gases into electricity, opened a new pilot power plant at Samancor Chrome's TC smelter in Mooinooi, South Africa.

South Africa is still "elephant country" and needs to boost exploration in the Northern Cape's highly prospective Namaqua metamorphic geological province in particular, says PGM Management MD Gerhard Meintjes.

South Africa has traditionally been a net importer of energy, but a relatively new clean technology could be pivotal in helping South Africa become an exporter and dramatically cut the country’s carbon emissions, says Rand Merchant Bank (RMB).

Mining giant BHP has inked a two-year partnership agreement with Chinese automotive think tank, Automotive Data of China (ADC) to support its research on the future electrification of transport in China.

The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has welcomed a call by the Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth for the need to diversify Australia’s trade base to reduce reliance on any one market.

South Africa has an opportunity to win back its lost share of the global vanadium market, which at one stage stood at 25%-plus, says Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo.

A long-established emphasis on worker safety in the mining industry has helped it to deal with the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and allowed companies to deduce how to improve those processes even further.

Mining sector technology specialist Becker Mining South Africa has recently launched a new upgraded chairlift programmable logic controller (PLC) panel that enhances reliability of Becker chairlift systems, which are used to safely transport personnel on mines...