Black-empowered coal-mining and energy resources company Exxaro on Thursday rewarded shareholders with a double dividend on lower profit and revenue in the six months to June 30. The company declared an interim and special cash dividend and reported ea…
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The cover picture of the December 16, 2011, edition of Mining Weekly showed the former South African President, Kgalema Motlanthe, admiring a platinum-catalysed Anglo American fuel cell, which was on display in Durban. The 150 kW hydrogen fuel cell was…
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Acid mine water, and also seawater and brackish water, are being eyed for hydrogen production by innovative South African company Hydrox Holdings, which has patented a water electrolysis method that is attracting world attention. The new membrane-free …
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A national roadmap for platinum-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles needs to be developed to complement the electric vehicle roadmap drawn up six years ago, says uYilo Electric Mobility director Hiten Parmar. uYilo is an initiative of the Te…
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Clean hydrogen, which South Africa is ideally placed to produce because of its superior sunshine and platinum abundance, is earmarked to replace oil in a world anxious to mitigate climate change, the planet’s most pressing current problem. New liquid o…
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Clean hydrogen, which South Africa is ideally placed to produce because of its superior sunshine, prime wind, available land and platinum abundance, is earmarked to one day replace oil in a world anxious to mitigate climate change, the planet’s most pr…
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Fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) technology, which relies on platinum catalysis, is gaining rapid ground across the world, Mining Weekly Online can today report. FCEV growth is taking place in tandem with the spread of the hydrogen economy in a world …
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Replacing diesel machines with zero-emitting fuel cell electrical equipment can lower the cost of underground mine ventilation, says Hydrogen Infrastructure (HySA) director Dr Dmitri Bessarabov, who adds that renewable hydrogen can also be used to miti…
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Blast-hole drilling is being carried out remotely at Nevada Gold Mines, which is close to being an automated mine in sections. Nevada Gold Mines is a joint venture between Barrick Gold Corporation (61.5%) and Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (38.5%). In t…
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The world’s biggest gold-mining company Barrick on Monday announced a maintained second-quarter dividend on production in line with the base set in the first three months of the year. Barrick CFO Graham Shuttleworth said the second-quarter dividend of…
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