Northam reports increased confidence on the back of solid full-year results. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - JSE-listed platinum miner Northam Platinum achieved a 226.7% year-on-year increase in normalised headline earnings of 1.4-billion rand for the financial year ended June 30...

Climate risk lifting insurance premiums for coal mining company Exxaro. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed coal-mining and energy company Exxaro Resources said on Thursday that it was experiencing higher insurance premiums in the renewal o...

Investors hoard most gold in ETFs in six years. Gold's faring extremely well as a haven asset, with inflows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hitting 1000 t since holdings bottomed in early 2016 after a prolonged unwind in the wake of the global fi...

South32 settles on buyer for SA assets, reports impairment. PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Diversified miner South32 on Thursday reported a pre-tax impairment charge of $504-million over its South African Energy Coal assets for the year ended June, announcing that ...

Seriti Resources said to win bid for South32 coal assets. JOHANNESBURG - Seriti Resources, a South African mining company, won a bid to acquire South32's thermal-coal assets in the country, according to two people familiar with the process. Final offers were...

EkoInfo assists with EIA for Samancor chrome reclamation project. Sustainable mining services provider EESTech has appointed South African environmental and wildlife management consultancy EkoInfo to assist with the environmental-impact assessment (EIA) process for t...

Hydrogen's plunging price boosts role of gas as climate solution. The cost of producing hydrogen gas with renewables is likely to plummet in the coming decades, making one of the most radical technologies for reducing greenhouse gases economical. That's the conclusi...

Hydrogen window 'wide open' as climate change crisis intensifies. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - The cover picture of the December 16, 2011, edition of Mining Weekly showed the former South African President, Kgalema Motlanthe, admiring a platinum-catalysed Anglo ...

Moab Khotsong, Hidden Valley boost Harmony's production, cash flows. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - Harmony Gold on Tuesday reported favourable financial and operating results for the financial year ended June 30, with both output and cash flows having benefited from...

Platinum-linked hydrogen fuel cell vehicle roadmap needed - uYilo. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - A national roadmap for platinum-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) needs to be developed to complement the electric vehicle (EV) roadmap drawn up s...