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South Africa’s low-cost, high-value rare earths heading for global market entry 
By: Martin Creamer 10th December 2025 Mining Weekly has just visited the laboratories that Rainbow Rare Earths has established very innovatively on the north-western fringe of Greater... →
Energy transition needs investment of a further $304-trillion, Glencore calculates
By: Martin Creamer 4th December 2025 The global energy transition needs investment of a further $304-trillion, Glencore CEO Gary Nagle pointed out during the Johannesburg Stock... →
R112bn cost savings target in focus as new Eskom board takes office
By: Terence Creamer 1st December 2025 Eskom chairperson Mteto Nyati has underlined the importance of reducing the State-owned group’s cost base as a newly constituted board takes over... →
Rare earth yttrium’s price surge uplifts South Africa’s Phalaborwa economics
By: Martin Creamer 24th November 2025 The economics of South Africa’s Phalaborwa rare earths project in Limpopo province have been uplifted very materially by the 3 000%-plus surge in... →
South Africa’s Phalaborwa rare earths project is gift that just keeps on giving
By: Martin Creamer 10th November 2025 South Africa’s rare earths endowment at Phalaborwa in Limpopo province is a gift that just keep on giving through the ongoing effort of Rainbow... →
South Africa’s thin-incentive critical minerals strategy noted in G20Lens analysis
By: Martin Creamer 30th October 2025 South Africa’s critical minerals strategy is not embedded in a modernised mining policy aligned with an industrial policy. Investment incentives... →
Minister’s ‘State will lead, market will follow’ electricity assertion raises questions
By: Terence Creamer 20th October 2025 Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s insistence that the State will lead and the market follow in the procurement of new... →
IRP 2025 raises gas load factor to 50% as adjustments are also made to accommodate nuclear and ‘clean coal’
By: Terence Creamer 19th October 2025 South Africa’s latest Cabinet-approved Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2025) includes several policy adjustments that deviate from the least-cost... →
