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Project development and engineering teams from energy solutions company Enernet Global have been working closely with iron-ore company Ironveld to develop an optimised hybrid power plant that will deliver clean, reliable and low-cost power for the company’s smelter facility in Rustenburg. Detailed design work is currently under way for the innovative hybrid system, which will include solar, battery storage and gas generation, and will operate in islanded mode, removed from the South African power grid.

A Proudly South African green hydrogen mobile solution, which is scheduled to be launched at the African Aerospace and Defence Exhibition (AAD) next month, ticks all the local boxes by making use of a platinum-catalysed hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and also being able to accommodate PEM electrolyser technology if need be. Built in response to local and international demand to meet the need for alternative energy solutions, GESS can provide 230 kWh of electrical power to a remote and isolated locations... Читать дальше...

Gold prices rose on Monday as the dollar fell to a more than two-week low, prompting investors to buy bullion, while markets eyed US inflation data for further clues on Federal Reserve rate hikes. Spot gold was up 0.4% at $1 722.79 per ounce  as of 08:26 GMT. US gold futures rose 0.3% to $1 733.20.

Work on the Los Pelambres desalination plant project, in Chile, has been placed on hold, to allow for the recovery of equipment that sunk when a construction platform collapsed last month. On August 15, tidal waves overturned a construction platform working on the marine works of the desalination project of Antofagasta.

Canadian firm Electra Battery Materials has announced the highlights of a scoping study for an integrated nickel refinery, as part of its vision of creating an electric vehicle (EV) battery materials park in Ontario. The integrated park will ultimately include nickel, cobalt and manganese refining, recycling of battery black mass material and precursor cathode active material (pCAM) manufacturing.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will today, Monday, 12 September, visit the Jagersfontein-Charlesville area in the Free State, where a diamond tailings deposition dam has burst its banks, destroying homes, and killing at least one person, the Provincial Disaster Management Centre reported. Four people have been reported missing following the incident at around dawn on Sunday, 11 September. Twenty-three people have been treated for hypothermia and four for broken bones.

Gold mining company Mineros will downsize its operations at the Gualcamayo property, reducing its workforce in Argentina by up to 30%. This is owing to the natural depletion of the deposit, which Mineros bought in 2018.

Pentwater Capital Management, the second-largest shareholder of Turquoise Hill Resources, said on Friday it opposes Rio Tinto's acquisition of the Canadian miner, and was weighing legal options to thwart the deal. The activist investor added that it now owns 11.67% of Turquoise Hill's shares, after buying a further 1.73% stake on the open market.