Gobalsamy says Omnia may build plants in the US
SHARES in Omnia Holdings are 88% higher over the past five years driven by a strategy to focus on the group’s explosives business through BME, a subsidiary. Mining now accounts…
ICCM says government policy has tightened the metals cycle
THE energy transition and its critical minerals supply chain has put mining into the orbit of government policy – with important consequences for the market, said Rohitesh…
Stronger Together: Partnerships Take Centre Stage at ENS–JMC Mining Indaba Breakfast
AGAINST the backdrop of Cape Town’s annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, ENS and the Junior Mining Council (JMC) hosted a high-level networking breakfast at Zest…
Despite Trump’s antipathy, mining companies will not abandon ESG
This article was first published in The Mining Yearbook 2025 In the US, the second administration of President Donald Trump has been dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion…
Misplaced coal pessimism has left Thungela oversold
FEW JSE stocks have swung as wildly as Thungela. From a 52-week high of R140.81 in February 2025 to barely R81 by October, the share has lost more than 40% of its value in just…
Orion Minerals says copper project will not fail
AFTER the best part of a decade of planning, Orion Minerals is determined to make a success of its Prieska Copper Zinc Mine with its CEO promising “high-end governance” as the…
Is Trump presidency undoing years of advances in ESG?
Mining companies are holding firm on environmental, social and governance commitments despite the Trump administration’s anti-ESG stance and record investor outflows from…
Coal decline risks poverty crisis, warns Thungela chief
THE uncontrolled decline of coal production poses a greater immediate threat to global communities than climate change itself, according to July Ndlovu, the outgoing CEO of…
Africa is front and centre in critical minerals conversation
WHETHER you are in Washington, Kinshasa, Beijing, Johannesburg or London, critical minerals are high on the agenda. It is the topic of conversation in the corridors of power, a…
Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm to step down this year
RIO Tinto said on Thursday its CEO of four years’ standing Jakob Stausholm would step down from the company later this year once a successor was found. “Jakob will continue to…
Shuka hoping Kabwe prospect will fire up JSE listing
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange will get its first mining listing in more than two years on Wednesday when coal and base metals firm Shuka Minerals debuts on AltX. Previously…
Omnia’s BME can benefit from Trump disruption, says CEO
OMNIA Holdings’s international push will most likely define the term of Seelan Gobalsamy, who became CEO of the chemicals, agribusiness and mining explosives company nearly six…
Can the West break China’s chokehold over critical minerals?
A COALITION of 14 nations and the European Commission last month unveiled the Minerals Security Partnership (MSP), a financing network aimed at breaking China’s chokehold on…
Harmony says Free State surface gold could be mined for 100 years
HARMONY Gold will complete studies into a tailings project in South Africa’s Free State province this year that could ensure gold production from the region for a century. Peter…
BME’s innovations drive ESG
BME, a division of JSE-listed Omnia, has cemented its position in South Africa and globally through a relentless focus over 40 years on innovation, enabling it to offer customers…
BME hoping to blow open international explosives market
CHEMICALS business Omina Holdings has staged a remarkable turnaround in the last four years. Since tapping shareholders for R2bn in 2019, the company has returned R4bn. At R63…
Saudi’s rise in mining is breathtaking, and problematic
L ong the world’s largest producer of oil, Saudi Arabia now seeks to unlock a treasure trove of minerals beneath its sands while using the endowment generated by decades of…
Sibanye-Stillwater puts the financial framework in place for its Finnish lithium mine
SIBANYE-Stillwater has secured a €500m (R10bn) “green” financing package to pay for its proposed Keliber lithium mine project in Finland which is intended to provide lithium to…
Thungela shareholders hang in there for better results despite coal’s blackened reputation
Thungela Resources cut its interim dividend for the six months to end June by 80% yet the share price was up 2.5% on the JSE this morning despite the decline in international…
Coal’s evergreen allure hard for investors to ignore
The pendulum has swung back to coal. Look no further than Glencore which is reconsidering retaining its coal production instead of demerging and separately listing the business,…