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Electric Metals confirms Minnesota’s Emily as premier high-grade manganese resource

Published: 27 May 24

US-based developer Electric Metals has unveiled an upgraded mineral resource estimate for its Emily manganese project, solidifying the Minnesota project as the continent’s “highest-grade manganese resource”. At a 10% cutoff grade, Emily’s indicated resources increased by 20.9% to 6.2-million tons, with a grade of 19.27% manganese. Inferred resources surged by 596.5% to 4.9-million tons, with a grade of 17.5%.

Barrick's Porgera mine in PNG operating without restriction after landslide

Published: 27 May 24

The Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea is running without restriction and has enough fuel on site for 40 days, operator Barrick Gold said on Monday, after a massive landslide struck in the province the mine is located. The landslide in Enga province buried more than 2 000 people, the government said earlier on Monday, as treacherous terrain impeded aid and lowered hopes of finding survivors.

Giyani looking to appoint directors with EV battery, financing expertise

Published: 27 May 24

TSX-V-listed, Botswana-focused Giyani Metals is streamlining its board of directors as it transitions into a manganese battery metals producer. Jonathan Henry, Michael Jones, John Petersen and Nicola Spooner have resigned from the board with effect from May 24.

PCC executive director Dr Crispian Olver

Delayed coal decommissioning won’t ‘collapse our climate commitments’

Published: 27 May 24

The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is currently assessing the impact of South Africa’s decision to delay the decommissioning of the Hendrina, Grootvlei and Camden coal-fired power stations on the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which outlines the country’s decarbonisation goals. Eskom confirmed recently that Cabinet and board permission had been granted for the continued operation of the three power stations beyond their original decommissioning dates, owing to the ongoing shortage of supply and delays in adding new generation.

Madison intersects strong uranium mineralisation at Khan

Published: 27 May 24

Uranium exploration company Madison Metals has reported that reverse circulation (RC) drill hole KM5RC003 at its Khan project, in Namibia, has intersected strong uranium mineralisation over mineable widths under trench area TR003. Spectrometer readings from chip-sample bags returned values as high as 1.36% triuranium oxide at 45 m and 1.54% at 148 m vertical depth from surface.

Hyland Europe, Middle East and Africa associate VP for sales Jean van Vuuren

Internal digital content serves as repository of truth for AI in companies – Hyland

Published: 27 May 24

The current focus for businesses is to automate the ingestion and use of content, and to use the advent of AI to analyse it and create business value, Hyland Europe, Middle East and Africa associate VP for sales Jean van Vuuren has said. To ensure AI and generative AI (genAI) solutions generated content that could be trusted, knowing where the enterprise data was being sourced and its quality and security were important, he added during the Hyland Summit for clients and partners on May 16, in Houghton, Johannesburg.

Multimodal Inland Port Association launched

Published: 27 May 24

The Multimodal Inland Port Association (MIPA), which seeks to address a critical need in South Africa’s logistics landscape, was launched in South Africa last week. The association aims to act as the unified voice for inland ports across the nation, focusing on promoting, supporting, and advocating for the increased movement of cargo from road to rail.

Wheeling progressing in South Africa, the rest of Africa

Published: 27 May 24

The use of national electricity grids to wheel power from renewable-energy projects to demand centres is growing in Africa and helping to drive greater scale in the building of renewable-energy generation, says private equity investment group African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) investment principal Anyababa Ikem. Strides were being made to increase the ability of renewable-energy players, such as the projects AIIM invests in, to wheel power across infrastructure on the continent, he added during a May 24 briefing held by the company to showcase some of the $900-million worth of investments it had made into renewable-energy projects in Africa, to date.

JPMorgan says BHP plan risks $4.3bn South Africa outflow

Published: 27 May 24

A successful takeover of Anglo American under the arrangements BHP Group has offered could lead to outflows of $4.3-billion from South Africa, according to a JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysis. Such an outflow, if a deal goes ahead, could weaken the rand, which has gained 4.4% against the dollar, the most of 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg, over the last five weeks.

Valuable use of ruthenium being researched.

Ruthenium highlighted again in what could be another big boost for platinum group metals

Published: 27 May 24

Ruthenium, one of the six platinum-group metals (PGMs), is once again being given major research attention in view of it being exceptionally suited to uplifting the efficiency and sustainability of green hydrogen production from green ammonia. Late last year, it was a ruthenium-based catalyst that augmented the scarcity of iridium, another PGM, in the production of green hydrogen from water electrolysis.