Watch out lithium, platinum's eyeing your battery space, says PTM . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Electric vehicles (EVs) are synonymous with lithium and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) are synonymous with platinum group metals (PGMs), but will the twain meet?

Promoting hydrogen economy should be No1 priority – RBPlat’s Phiri . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Promoting the hydrogen economy should be South Africa’s number one priority, Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) CEO Steve Phiri said on Wednesday.

Speaking during a pa...

Platinum has potential to be three-times-bigger $35bn-a-year industry – Minerals Council . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Instead of being the $11-billion-a-year type industry that it is today, the platinum business has the potential to be a $35-billion-a-year industry by 2050, Minerals C...

Ivanhoe to discuss Kamoa-Kakula project options with shareholders . TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines and its partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) − Zijin Mining Group, Crystal River Global and the country’s government − have welcomed the positive findings of an i...

Commenters call for an end to lockdown as second-quarter GDP contracts 51% . South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 51% in the second quarter, down from a revised 1.8% quarter-on-quarter contraction recorded in the first quarter, extending the economic r...

Prize potentially large in platinum fuel cell and hydrogen growth – prof . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Significant growth in fuel cells and hydrogen is now almost certain and the prize for South Africa remains potentially large.

That is the view of E4tech director Pro...

Possible special dividend on high-flying rhodium, palladium prices – Sylvania . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) ­ – High-flying rhodium and palladium prices are giving rise to a possible special dividend being paid to the shareholders of cash-flush Sylvania Platinum, the London Ai...

Resgen, Ledjajda ask lenders to defer some conditions precedent . ASX-listed Resource Generation (Resgen) says its subsidiary Ledjajda Coal has formally requested that the lenders it is negotiating with either defer a limited number of conditions precedent to a date ...

MC Mining raises $600 000 for Makhado's development . Coal miner MC Mining has concluded a subscription agreement with Columbia Skies Holdings (CSH), which is owned by black industrialist Pitso Madibo, for 7.8-million ordinary MC Mining shares, or a 4.8% ...

Implats ups capex guidance to R6bn-plus for new financial year . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Platinum group metals mining and marketing company Implats, which generated free cash flow of R14.4-billion in the 12 months to June 30, is forecasting capital expendi...