South Africa’s move to renewable energy means that the coal industry will be phased out over the coming decades.

New coal investment may be drying up as the world seeks greener energy, but for miners like South Africa's Thungela Resources ...

However, mining of coal for electricity generation is still unavoidable in South Africa and since the majority of coal reserves coincide with highly productive agricultural land, the impact is ...

South Africa has the potential to be the strongest producer, user and exporter of coal on the continent, but political ...

South Africa rolled out a plan to create new jobs as it struggles to counter criticism that its shift away from the use of ...

Harmony Gold Mining is said to be interested in an acquisition of the $2bn Ravenswood Gold Mine that being sold by EMR ...

Fouche was part of the Palabora Mining Company’s development of South Africa’s last major copper mine and previously held ...

The giant Secunda complex of Sasol, South Africa’s biggest chemicals and energy company, provides the fundamental ingredients ...

The world’s oldest mine has been discovered in southern Africa by bombarding ancient materials with neutrons inside the reactor core. Dated at around 48,000 years old, the mine shows the ...

A Greenpeace report has unmasked South Africa’s energy sector as one of the biggest air pollution sources on the African continent.

MacDonald from the University of Missouri, has confirmed the discovery of the oldest ochre mine in the world, located in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a small country in southern Africa. Ochre, an ...

After a coal rush to offset gas supply interruptions in the wake of Russia’s 2022 Ukraine invasion, rich nations have ...