Over the past year, the epidemic has been cloudy, many American steel mills have stopped production, the United States steel industry has been hit.

For the South African mining industry to thrive, it needs to focus on its competitiveness and it should embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), says University of Johannesburg Vice Chancellor and principal Professor Tshilidzi Marwala.

Along with the adoption of technologies needed for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) could potentially come a change in the type of jobs being created in the mining industry, gold miner Gold Fields technical executive VP Richard Butcher has said.

JSE-listed chemicals group AECI has declared a final cash dividend of 470c apiece for the year ended December 31, 2020, despite a 55% year-on-year decrease in profit from operations to R917-million.

Andrew Forrest’s grand call in a televised speech a few weeks ago for Australia to produce green steel made from zero-emissions energy such as hydrogen is starting to lead to action.

A startup called H2 Green Steel (H2GS AB) unveiled plans here on Tuesday to build a large-scale "green" steel production plant in the Boden-Lulea region in northern Sweden.

Vital Metals signs contract to start rare earth mining in Canada

In 2020, the production of nickel in the Philippines increased by more than 3% year-on-year, but the outlook for this year's production is uncertain