5 strategic goals Richard Stewart may unfurl for Sibanye-Stillwater
RICHARD Stewart couldn’t have taken over as CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater at a better time. Gold and platinum prices are at record highs which has seen the group’s market value…
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…
Neal Froneman’s greatest test lies ahead
Neal Froneman’s career has been a series of risky acquisitions. Either he turns around lossmaking mines bought at a snip, or he buys assets at the bottom of the market cycle.…
Sibanye-Stillwater CEO says firm prepared to mothball US mine
SIBANYE-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman said the company was prepared to put its Stillwater mine in the US on care and maintenance as palladium prices continued to languish. “The…
How the science of carbon capture aids just transition
Close to a quarter of a million workers are employed in the coal industry, hence any discontinuation of this fossil fuel cannot be spoken of without considering the…
AngloGold to build major renewable plant for Australian mine Tropicana
ANGLOGOLD Ashanti is to build one of the largest renewable energy projects in Australia as part of a wider plan to cut Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030, said…
Centamin unveils 30% interim cut in GHG emissions for 2030
CENTAMIN today unveiled a decarbonisation programme aimed at cutting scope 1 and scope 2 greenhouse gases (GHG) 30% by 2030 through a combination of increased renewable energy,…
Africa must stake its claim for share of $160bn a year in green metals investment
UNLESS there’s a doubling in capital expenditure by the world’s mining companies, the world has virtually no chance of limiting global warming to 1.5oC as targeted in the Paris…
New age in resource consumption as electric vehicle manufacturing is set to accelerate
HUMANITY has begun a new chapter in its development, enabled by extraordinary technological advances commensurate with those of the first, second and third industrial…
Ivanhoe’s Friedland expects foreign migration to Congo’s “higher grade” copper mines
THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is “the Saudi Arabia of copper, cobalt and hydroelectric generation potential”, according to Robert Friedland, the executive co-chairman of…
Sacrificing development for climate is a poor debate mining executives say
THE view of three mining executives polled by Miningmx is that a discussion about reducing greenhouse gas emissions can’t exclude the rights of people in poorer economies,…
Miners not doing enough to meet UN targets on greenhouse gas emissions
THE mining sector is not doing enough to meet the United Nations’ goals in limiting global climate warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to a…