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Mining underpins the global energy transition, with electrification driving rapid growth in demand for battery and critical minerals. Africa, which holds a significant share of the world’s cobalt, manganese, copper and bauxite, is becoming increasingly central to global supply chains. Yet most...

Coal’s place in the global energy system is shifting, but the story has been anything but a straight line.
Creamer Media’s ‘Coal 2025: The shifts reshaping coal’ report traces the value chain from resources and reserves through mining, coal preparation and downstream use, highlighting the...

South Africa’s position in the iron-ore market is shaped far more by its own domestic challenges than by global shifts. Although the country is the seventh-largest iron-ore producer globally, accounting for 3% of world supply, exports continue to be limited by rail inefficiencies and equipment...

Details of Eskom’s eleventh-hour 62c/KWh offer to ferrochrome smelters to be provided in Nersa submission

Published: 27 Feb 26

Eskom announced on Friday that it had extended an eleventh-hour 62c/kWh tariff offer to ferrochrome producers Glencore‑Merafe Chrome Venture and Samancor, but indicated that negotiations on the precise terms and conditions still needed to be finalised before the package could be submitted for...

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