With the ongoing strain on South Africa's electricity grid, and the growing use of renewable energy to mitigate climate change, there is a clear need for reliable and cost-effective energy storage solutions...
Nicklaus Kruger 13 Jan 2020
Three key Ghanaian universities and Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) will start working together to help upcoming engineers, physicists, doctors and researchers from Ghana to receive Master's and postgraduate education in nuclear subjects in Russia...
10 Jan 2020
South Africa needs to seriously start thinking about shifting its energy focus. This is for two reasons...
David Richard Walwyn and Rod Crompton 10 Jan 2020
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views...
17 Dec 2019
Perdekraal East Wind Farm is on track to start its commercial operations at the end of July 2020 as planned...
25 Nov 2019
Mining companies that take the circular economy seriously by finding creative ways to re-use the same materials will stand the test of time...
Garyn Rapson & Paula-Ann Novotny 12 Nov 2019
The Brulpadda discovery is a "game changer", which has renewed exploration interest in South Africa..
Nicci Botha 8 Nov 2019
William Gregor, an amateur mineralogist and chemist, first discovered ilmenite - some black sand containing one of the world's lightest metals - in the UK in 1791...
Michael Oluwatosin 7 Nov 2019
New expectations of transparency and authenticity in business means things like organisational purpose, brand stories, how your company does things, what it believes in and what it stands for, can all play a part in how your company sees itself and how it is seen by others...
Bizcommunity.com 2 Oct 2019
Bizcommunity is excited to announce the relaunch of our Biz Product and Rate Card, featuring all-new product infographics, descriptors and more...
Bizcommunity.com 27 Sep 2019
Perdekraal East Wind Farm's first wind turbine has been erected, using a dominantly South African team...
11 Sep 2019
If you are not digital it will be very difficult to be competitive in industry, or in the buildings you produce. Because what you are building is here for the next 50 years, and it has to be green, smart and automated...
Taru Madangombe 3 Sep 2019
Almost all scientists agree that burning fossil fuels is contributing to climate change. But agreement is less clear cut on how exactly it's influencing rising global temperatures...
Rizwan Nawaz & Adel Sharif 23 Aug 2019
Drones are an increasing familiar feature on the mining landscape, therefore safety officers need to know the laws and regulations governing the safe use of these machines...
16 Aug 2019
Thirty advanced drilling rigs will be rolled out, beginning in January 2020, as part of a R2bn multi-year agreement between service provider, Rosond, and Anglo American Kumba Iron Ore...
13 Aug 2019
Tailings are a sand-like byproduct of mining that results from crushing the ore before mineral extraction. Often, tailings are disposed of in dams built with tailings themselves, or with other mine waste products...
Luis Alberto Torres-Cruz 7 Aug 2019
Historically, mining is a boom-or-bust industry, where the fickleness of mineral prices could result in extreme success or bankruptcy...
2 Aug 2019
Since 2001, Bizcommunity anticipated the role of company culture as intellectual capital. Biz Press Offices are a "glass box" game changer, offering a window into 18 industry communities...
Bizcommunity.com 23 Jul 2019
Capitalism has often been identified as the underlying cause of the climate crisis...
Alex Lenferna 16 Jul 2019
The modern world has seen services like electricity and motorised transport become available across all societies...
Joe Keenan 8 Jul 2019
The mining vision for 2030 is an industry that is growing in investment, production and revenue; is well regulated and well led by ethical leaders, and is competitive, appropriately skilled, modernised and invests in research and development...
4 Jul 2019
The NSTF-South32 Awards - known as the 'Science Oscars' - were held at a prestigious gala dinner in Gauteng on Thursday, 27 June 2019...
3 Jul 2019
It will be very difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by enough to halt global heating at 1.5°C - the threshold at which catastrophic climate change becomes more likely...
Marcelle McManus 3 Jul 2019
The foundations for all 48 of Perdekraal East Wind Farm's turbines have been completed, a full three weeks ahead of schedule.
27 Jun 2019
A major nanofabrication facility that will house world-class Atomic Layer Deposition reactors at the University of Johannesburg broke ground for construction within the Department of Mechanical Engineering Science on Tuesday, 18 June 2019...
19 Jun 2019
Protracted pressure on margins over many years has put miners' focus squarely on productivity. Lower commodity prices with a steadily rising cost base and growing compliance requirements have created a perfect storm...
Joe Keenan 18 Jun 2019
It's time to relook at how energy is supplied in South Africa and to evolve and adapt the country's outdated system...
10 Jun 2019
The transformation of the world's energy markets continues to gain momentum. Renewable energy projects, which have seen a rapid decline in cost over the last decade, are increasingly powering the world's large economies...
6 Jun 2019
The incredible wealth of the Southern African region's offshore mineral deposits was once again highlighted by the oil and gas find off the coast of Mossel Bay...
Otto Shikongo 30 May 2019
Using technology to improve customer service and ultimately drive revenue may not necessarily be clear cut for utilities like Eskom...
16 May 2019
Energy & Mining Trends 2020
