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Fortescue excluded from world’s biggest hydropower plant development

Published: 22 May 24

A company owned by Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest will no longer develop the world’s biggest hydropower project in Democratic Republic of Congo, according to President Felix Tshisekedi’s office, which has replaced the firm with a Nigerian oil producer. Natural Oilfield Services signed a preliminary deal with Congo on May 9 to build a smaller version of Fortescue's proposed Grand Inga project, which would have generated around 40 GW of hydropower.

As municipal debt programme falters, Eskom CFO calls for mechanism to ensure the utility gets paid

Published: 22 May 24

Municipal debt remains one of Eskom’s biggest challenges, says Eskom CFO Calib Cassim. “At the end of March, we were sitting at around R75-billion of municipal arrears owing to us. That has grown in the last financial year in the region of R15-billion.

UN agency has launched a report on green business and financing in Africa

Published: 22 May 24

Africa has major opportunities for green economic development and could become a world-leader in it, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Service Centre for Africa director Dr Matthias Naab highlighted at the Enlit Africa 2024 conference, in Cape Town, on Wednesday. He was launching the UNDP’s 'Africa Green Business and Financing' report, at the International Convention Centre. Africa contained 30 of the world’s 40 most climate-vulnerable countries, he pointed out. And global climate programmes were falling short of their targets.

Top Anglo investor says BHP bid requires 'meaningful revision'

Published: 22 May 24

South African state-owned asset manager the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) said on Wednesday that it would require a "meaningful revision" of BHP Group's bid for rival miner Anglo American. Anglo rebuffed BHP's initial $39-billion all-share proposal made on April 25, dismissing it as opportunistic. It subsequently rejected a revised offer of $43-billion saying the world's largest listed miner "continues to significantly undervalue" the company and that its difficult to execute.

South African member committee of World Energy Council launched

Published: 22 May 24

A South African member committee of the World Energy Council (WEC) has been launched under the aegis of the Energy Council of South Africa. The member committee is made up of ten high-level energy practitioners drawn from the public and private sectors, namely:

West Coast diamonds events, excursion a success

Published: 22 May 24

The West Coast Diamond Event and Excursion, held on May 17 and 18 in Port Nolloth, in the Northern Cape, and hosted by the Geological Society of South Africa’s (GSSA's) Northern Cape branch, has been lauded as a “great success” with positive feedback received from attendees. This is according to the organiser Lisani Geological Services founder and MD Loni Gallant, who has two decades of mining industry experience throughout Africa. She is also the chairperson of GSSA’s Northern Cape branch.

Edison increases its valuation of Pan African despite lower production forecast

Published: 22 May 24

Analyst Edison Investment Research has increased its valuation of South African gold miner Pan African Resources to $0.48 a share, from $0.41 previously. London- and Johannesburg-listed Pan African earlier this month announced that it had revised its 2024 full-year production guidance to between 186 000 oz and 190 000 oz, compared with previous guidance of 180 000 oz to 190 000 oz, owing to it having ceased the processing of marginal surface sources at Evander Gold Mines.

Expert suggests new ways junior miners can classify resources

Published: 22 May 24

A key issue with all mineral projects is the quantification of risk and uncertainty, which has always been narrowed down to grade estimation issues; however, just basing the mineral resource category on drill spacing and a competent person’s judgment on resource boundaries is no longer good enough. Rather, it should be statistically based, since juniors could not afford to undertake vast amounts of drilling, EY natural resource principal technical consultant Andy Clay said during the Joburg Indaba, held on May 21 and 22.

South Africa must diversify into high-value exports, connect to region to boost growth

Published: 22 May 24

For South Africa to achieve economic growth that leads to improved wellbeing for its citizens, it needs to convert the primary commodities it produces into high-value exports and develop a stronger relative comparative advantage in more competitive goods than only basic metals. Further, the country needs to connect to the continent and the range of opportunities through the African Continental Free Trade Area. Intra-African regional trade is low, and South Africa has a strong economy that can generate synergies that can contribute to strong regional growth.

Chinese coal group cuts 2024 output forecast

Published: 22 May 24

The deputy chairman of the China Coal Transportation and Distribution Association (CCTD) told a seminar on Wednesday that annual output growth would be in a range of -1% to 1% this year, having previously forecast expansion of 1%. China, the world's biggest coal producer, mined 4.66 billion metric tons of the fuel in 2023, up 2.9% year-on-year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.