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Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the catalytic properties of platinum and palladium being researched and developed as a potential source of significant upliftment for drones; the 828 000 t of manganese that went through Namibia’s Port; and the ordinary shares of Siba

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South Africa's Manganese Producers Consortium (MPC), which represents producers that account for 60% of South Africa's manganese ore exports, does not direct individual producers on the corridors or export routes they use.
Those decisions reflect each producer's specific operational, commercial, customer and logistics requirements, and it is therefore not the MPC's remit to comment on individual routing choices.
This is what the MPC pointed...

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ASX-listed Osmond Resources has published a scoping study advancing the case for the EU's first rare earths, zircon and titanium mine.
The scoping study for Osmond's Orión project, in Jaén province, Andalucía, Spain, confirms a low capital expenditure requirement of $299-million, an after-tax net present value of $2.31-billion, an internal rate of return of 145% and a payback period of six months.
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The catalytic properties of platinum and palladium are being researched and developed as a potential source of significant upliftment for drones.
The higher energy density that platinum and palladium can provide is being viewed as an extender of operating time, increased payload capacity and improved performance.
A newly funded development programme will focus on manufacturing and testing pouch-cell prototypes in several performance configurations...

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Global miner Rio Tinto said on Thursday it has reached agreements with the Australian and Tasmanian governments to secure the ongoing operation of its Bell Bay Aluminium smelter in northern Tasmania through the end of 2031.
As part of the agreements, Hydro Tasmania will supply electricity to Bell Bay Aluminium until December 2031, while the Australian and Tasmanian governments will provide additional support to continue operations.<...

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The plan-beating sale of manganese ore by Jupiter Mines in its financial year 2026 (FY26) included 828 000 t going through the Port of Lüderitz in Namibia, the ASX-listed company stated in its annual report on Wednesday, September 30.
Jupiter owns 49.9% of Tshipi é Ntle Manganese, which operates the Tshipi manganese mine in South Africa's large, low-cost Kalahari manganese field. South Africa's JSE-listed Exxaro Resources owns 50.1% of Tshipi, wh...

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Research firm Market Data Forecast estimates the value of the global tungsten market to have been $5.14-billion in 2025, which will likely widen to $5.56-billion in 2026 and further to $10.45-billion by 2034.
This equates to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2% between 2026 and 2034.
Another research firm, The Business Research Company, puts the tungsten market value at $6.66-billion in 2026 and at $9.62-billion by 2030, which is...

South Africa's complementary A2X exchange attracts another mining listing
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The ordinary shares of precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater have been approved for inclusion in the list of qualifying equity securities to be traded on South Africa's complementary A2X stock exchange.
With effect from October 6, the secondary A2X listing is poised to support liquidity and provide investors with greater access to...

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Market research firm Mordor Intelligence expects the global lithium carbonate market to grow from 141-million lithium carbonate-equivalent (LCE) tons in 2026 to 3.93-million LCE tons by 2031, marking a 22.74% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), with new projects in Chile and Nevada gradually expanding supply outside of China.
China currently accounts for between 60% and 70% of global lithium refining, yet imports 80% of its spodumene from Australia.
Lithium...

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Gold Fields has more than doubled free cash flow in the last twelve months; Northern Star has suffered free cash flow decline in the same period despite gold price rise.
Gold Fields has a settled leadership team; Northern Star has a CEO, CFO and chief development officer transition underway during a period of project execution and delivery.
In Western Australia, where Gold Fields...

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Iron-ore major Fortescue's Christmas Creek Green Metal Project, which features mining technology specialist Metso's Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) Smelting Furnace technology, has produced its first hot metal in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
The project marks an important milestone for Fortescue and Metso in developing a pathway toward producing green metal from Pilbara iron-ore using new low-emission smelting technologies.
"This is a significant milestone...

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London-listed Rainbow Rare Earths has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Toronto-listed Neo Performance Materials for technical support and design input for Rainbow's final solvent extraction separation circuit.
Neo has started with testwork of Rainbow's high-grade rare earths solution at its facilities in Estonia.
Once completed, Neo will assist with running a confirmatory integrated pilot-scale separation plant in Johannesburg to support the...

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The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has reported a fourth mineworker having been killed at Sibanye-Stillwater's operations this year, which adds to the national mining fatality figure of 52 so far this year.
A mineworker was reportedly found with a severe head injury at the Beatrix gold mine, in the Free State, on September 21, where he worked for Sibanye directly as a winch...

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer says Valterra platinum is noting some big gains of Jameson cell deployment; he talks about Thakadu’s new nickel sulphate product for use in lithium-ion battery manufacturing; and he notes that the National Research Foundation and Mintek will be

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Reduction of 3 000-equivalent trucks on the road, a 70.5 MWh decrease in smelting electricity consumption, a 70 000 t cut in smelting CO2 emission, and a R203-million annual cost saving, which excludes revenue benefits from improved metal recovery.
"Big, big benefits," was the comment of Valterra Platinum executive head: processing operations Agit Singh when, during the company's value-chain media briefing covered by Mining Weekly, he provided...

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US metals refining startup Nth Cycle has signed a $1-billion offtake agreement with Glencore to supply the commodities giant with lithium and other critical minerals extracted from recycled batteries, a deal that comes ahead of a planned public listing later this year.
The 10-year deal is among the largest in the US battery recycling sector as companies and governments race to secure domestic sources...

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Harmony Gold Mining Company on Monday, 21 September, announced the launch of an offering of $500-million guaranteed senior unsecured convertible bonds due in 2031, and the following day reported the offering's pricing.
The intended use of the net proceeds from the bond offering would be for general corporate purposes, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed gold and copper mining company stated in a stock exchange news service (SENS...

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TSX-V-listed Artemis Gold has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of TSX- and NYSE-listed Vista Gold in a deal valued at $427-million through the exchange of shares.
Artemis currently holds 4.95% of Vista's outstanding shares.
Under the terms of the transaction, Vista shareholders will receive 0.0966 common shares of Artemis for each Vista share held. The exchange ratio...

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More than 300 emerging researchers, industry leaders, government, academia and other stakeholders are to gather this month and next to explore innovative solutions to challenges in the minerals sector, Mintek announced on Monday, September 21.
In partnership with the National Research Foundation (NRF), Mintek will be hosting its third Science Convention for Innovators in Engineering, Science and Technology (SCi) between September 29 and October 2 in Randburg, Gauteng.<...

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Australia- and Frankfurt-listed Vulcan Energy has started commercial-scale production of its proprietary lithium extraction adsorbent, VULSORB, which selectively captures lithium from brine.
The company will use VULSORB in its Lionheart lithium production plant, which is currently under construction in Germany and due for commissioning in the second half of 2028.
VULSORB has successfully completed thousands of operating cycles under real-world conditions, achieving up to 95...

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Amid green hydrogen being declared integral to a new industrial framework at the Africa Green Hydrogen Summit in South Africa, the global Hydrogen Council is urging the world to lift its hydrogen production game at pace.
While the summit was being told that South Africa's Just Energy Transition Investment Plan programme management office at the Industrial Development Corporation had identified 24 hydrogen projects, the Hydrogen...

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the developments surrounding South Africa’s $5.8-billion green hydrogen ammonia project; the Mogalakwena mine which has 300-year-plus resource life; and the Manganese Producers Consortium stressing that Phase 3’s test rail reform cann

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Human rights organisation Amnesty International Canada has warned that the Canadian government must not embrace a programme of "race-to-the-bottom" corporate tax cuts that threaten human rights and the environment.
The organisation made the statement in response to the Canadian government's proposed "mega deduction" for corporations, announced at Prime Minister Mark Carney's Canada Investment Summit earlier this week.
If adopted, the changes would massively...

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Base metals company Orion Minerals, which on Thursday September 17 described itself as being on the way to becoming South Africa's next significant copper producer, has taken firm steps to sharpen its own corporate governance as it transitions from copper project development to fully fledged mining and processing.
Two complementary base metal production hubs are being developed by Orion in South Africa's well-endowed and well-established...

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Nasdaq-listed Critical Metals Corporation has released a study on its proposed 50:50 joint venture rare earths refinery with State-owned Romanian entity Fabrica de Prelucrare a Concentratelor de Uraniu, finding it will require capital expenditure of $1.85-billion.
The proposed refinery is being designed to process up to 100 000 t/y of eudialyte concentrate feed and, based on current modelling, produce about 27 943 t/y of rare earth and...

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There is no argument that the Mogalakwena platinum group metals (PGM) mine in South Africa's Limpopo province is "definitely" the PGM mining industry's most exciting endowment, Valterra Platinum executive head mining operations Willie Theron stated emphatically during the company's value-chain media briefing.
Valterra has communicated to the market that Mogalakwena, on a six-element (6E) basis, is targeting production of between 900 000 oz and a million...

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Industry body Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has welcomed an announcement by the federal government on a "Productivity Mega Deduction" as a permanent measure allowing businesses to fully write off the cost of most new capital assets in the year they are put to use.
For Canada's mining industry, the Productivity Mega Deduction would allow companies to immediately deduct the full cost of a...

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Hive Hydrogen South Africa on Tuesday, September 15, awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for South Africa's pioneering $5.8-billion green hydrogen ammonia project to Spanish company Técnicas Reunidas.
"The Técnicas Reunidas proposal was outstanding in all respects. Our aim remains to produce the lowest cost green ammonia globally," said Hive Hydrogen chairperson Thulani Gcabashe, a former Eskom CEO and Standard Bank chair.

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TSX-listed Neo Performance Materials has started commercial production at its European permanent magnet manufacturing facility, in Estonia, with first volumes of rare earth sintered magnets having been shipped to an electric vehicle traction motor customer.
These milestones mark Neo's transition from development and sampling through full automotive qualification and into commercial production for its initial magnet programmes.
Neo has been awarded multiple magnet...

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The third phase of the August 20-launched Government-Business Partnership for Growth and Jobs names freight logistics as a foundational enabler of growing the economy by 3%-plus and generating a million new jobs by 2030.
"This is a welcome signal and confirms our consistently communicated and strong belief that logistics reforms – and rail reform in particular – are central to South Africa's growth targets and are not a te...

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Leading Australian gold producer Northern Star has appointed mining veteran Mark Cutifani to its board following pressure from major shareholder Elliott Investment Management to make strategic changes.
Elliott has been quoted as saying that Northern Star is persistently underperforming relative to industry peers.
Peter Rozenauers joins Cutifani as an independent nonexecutive director effective October 1.
Suresh Vadnagra is due to take over as...

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The definitive feasibility study for the promising Soweto gold tailings retreatment project, west of South Africa's Gold City of Johannesburg, has been completed, Pan African Resources reported on Friday, September 10, when the London-, Johannesburg- and Sydney-listed company headlined the study as "delivering a robust long-term growth pathway" for its thriving West Rand Mogale tailings retreatment complex.
The Soweto tailings project, designed to leverage existing...

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A joint report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and International Energy Agency (IEA) says high levels of supply chain concentration and rising trade restrictions are limiting investment and creating real vulnerabilities in critical mineral supplies.
While efforts to diversify sources are gathering pace, investment still falls short of what is needed to keep up with demand, the organisations state.
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Committed investment in clean hydrogen has hit the $130-billion-plus mark, driven by global energy security and resilience issues, with 90% of 570 clean hydrogen projects already under construction or in operation.
"Clean hydrogen's no longer a future bet," the Brussels-based Hydrogen Council reported in Global Hydrogen Compass 2026 on Thursday, September 10.
Construction of a capacity of 6.9-million hydrogen tonnes a year is under way right now.<...

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Canadian circular rare earths company Cyclic Materials has officially opened the US's largest rare earth recycling facility in Mesa, Arizona, which can process 25 000 t/y of end-of-life components to create a new domestic source of rare earth materials.
The facility is poised to make its first commercial shipments to US customers later this month.
The Mesa facility marks the world's first commercial-scale deployment...

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Environmental campaign groups lodged a complaint against the European Commission on Tuesday, accusing the EU executive of moving ahead with an overhaul of water protection and management laws without enough evidence.
The complaint is the latest by environmental groups over the European Union's efforts to simplify and scale back policies, a strategy known as the EU "omnibus", which responds to complaints from industries who...

Mine tyre life lengthening that protects environment highlighted at Electra Mining Africa
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The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has verified the important environmental protection benefits of opting for mine tyre life extension solutions rather than purchasing new tyres.
The carbon footprint methodology verified provides measurable data that mining companies can use when reporting Scope 3 emissions, which are by far the largest share of a...

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The second-largest producer of silver globally and the EU's largest producer of mined copper KGHM Polska Miedź and global diversified miner BHP World Exploration have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) establishing a framework for exploration of areas of mutual interest.
The document marks the beginning of discussions between two significant players in the mining sector and reflects the broader industry trend of seeking n...

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South Africa's Multotec, whose equipment is now used to optimise recoveries and reduce cost of ownership in mineral processing plants in 100 countries on six continents, highlighted its global success on the opening day of Electra Mining Africa 2026 when it formally handed over the CEO baton.
After 20 years of leadership under Thomas Holtz, Multotec announced the appointment of Johan Robbertse as its new Group CEO...

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Mining and metals research firm BMI find that Australia's industry risk profile is largely being shaped by climate exposure and labour scarcity, though these effects vary by sector.
Climate-related risks are most acute in mining and agriculture, particularly in Western Australia with nearly 90% of the state's land being prone to bushfires, exposing this mining sector to elevated physical climate risk.
BMI's proprietary asset-exposure...