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South Deep produces 24% more gold, on track to meet guidance, Gold Fields reports 
By: Martin Creamer 6th May 2025 After addressing backfill leakage and rehandling issues and transitioning into higher-grade areas, the big South Deep gold mine west of... →
Eskom aims to smooth maintenance profile after difficult summer
By: Terence Creamer 5th May 2025 Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has indicated that the State-owned utility is planning to “smooth” its maintenance profile over a longer horizon to avoid... →
The good gold price is providing much more capex confidence, says chief financial officer
By: Martin Creamer 5th May 2025 The good gold price is providing gold mining companies with much more confidence to execute capital programmes, and a sentiment doing the rounds is... →
AngloGold agrees sale of Côte d’Ivoire projects, acquisition of Guinea project
By: Martin Creamer 2nd May 2025 The New York- and Johannesburg-listed AngloGold Ashanti has agreed to sell its interests in two gold projects in Côte d’Ivoire and simultaneously... →
South Africa’s shift from coal to renewables: how it’s going
2nd May 2025 Just over 74% of South Africa’s electricity still comes from burning coal. In 2021, the country negotiated the Just Energy Transition Partnership... →
Tiny technology that can find pollution in South Africa’s water and trap it
2nd May 2025 Nanotechnology is the use of materials that are one-billionth of a metre (a nanometre) in size. One of its potential uses is to clean up whatever... →
Watt You Need to Know on the draft Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Regulations
30th April 2025 The draft regulations to facilitate planning for the procurement and establishment of transmission capacity by private parties (“the Regulations”)... →
Premature gold mine closure can no longer be allowed, says 130-year-old DRDGOLD
By: Martin Creamer 29th April 2025 With the gold price expected to be stronger for longer, hopes are high that South Africa’s five main remaining gold mining companies will maximise... →
