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MINING: Mining and metals can outperform in a post-pandemic world
- Date: 19-05-20
- Category: MINING
- Source: Financial Times
As Covid-19 infection rates fall in a number of countries, governments are loosening social-distancing rules and instigating measures to encourage normal economic activity. Commodity prices rebounded sharply during the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Can we expect the same this time following the pandemic crisis? Perhaps.
View full storySOUTH AFRICA: Mandatory code of Covid mining practice gazetted
- Date: 19-05-20
- Category: SOUTH AFRICA
- Source: Mining Weekly
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa's guidelines for a mandatory Code of Practice (COP) to mitigate and manage the Covid-19 pandemic in the mining industry have been gazetted.
View full storyELECTRIC VEHICLES: As Covid-19 Hits Electric Vehicles, Some Thrive, Others Die
- Date: 19-05-20
- Category: ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Source: Bloomberg
Electric vehicles generally don’t coast; they are designed either to accelerate or brake at any given time. The electric vehicle market is much the same.
View full storyESKOM: Eskom faces Kendal shutdown over emissions
- Date: 19-05-20
- Category: ESKOM
- Source: Energy Voice
Eskom has been instructed to halt work at a number of units at its Kendal power plant by the South African Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF).
View full storyESKOM: Confirmed: Eskom to increase electricity tariffs ‘after lockdown’
- Date: 19-05-20
- Category: ESKOM
- Source: The South African
Eskom has been granted permission to increase electricity tariffs in an attempt to recoup R13 billion. The increase is expected to be finalised by September 2020.
View full storyPGM PRODUCERS: SA mines reconfigure to survive virus amid job loss fears
- Date: 19-05-20
- Category: PGM PRODUCERS
- Source: Eye Witness News
MARIKANA - On a chilly South African evening at the mining town of Marikana, men filed into a bus and sat one per row, ready to start their night shift at a nearby platinum mine.
View full storySOUTH AFRICA: Amcu calls for universal testing for COVID-19 at all SA mines
- Date: 18-05-20
- Category: SOUTH AFRICA
- Source: Eye Witness News
JOHANNESBURG – The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has proposed that COVID-19 testing take place at all South African mines following the outbreak of infections at the Marula Platinum Mine.
View full storyPGM PRODUCERS: South African miner Impala closes platinum mine due to Covid-19
- Date: 18-05-20
- Category: PGM PRODUCERS
- Source: Mining Technology
South African platinum mining company Impala Platinum has temporarily suspended operations at its Marula operation in Limpopo province after it identified 19 positive tests for Covid-19 at the site.
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