Vedanta's Konkola Copper Mines plans a $317m, 300MW coal-fired power plant in southern Zambia, as President Hakainde Hichilema presses the company to accelerate investment to support copper growth.
Transnet Freight Rail carried 167.9Mt of freight in FY2025/26, up 4.9%, as coal exports rose to 58.5Mt and iron ore to 52.8Mt, but the operator says it must clear 180Mt to meet demand.
Thungela Resources reported on 17 August 2026 that H1 2026 profit jumped as coal prices and rail performance improved, lifting its interim dividend to R5.50 a share from R2 a year earlier.
Thungela Resources posted a sharp rise in first-half profit to R1.4bn, helped by firmer coal prices and a 12% jump in export sales, and lifted its interim dividend to R5.50 a share.
Exxaro Resources flagged a fall of up to 23% in headline earnings for the first half of 2026, even as its coal exports rose 15% to 3.94 million tonnes on firmer thermal coal prices.
South African mining production fell 4% year-on-year in June 2026, Stats SA data published on 13 August showed, worse than the 3.3% decline analysts had forecast.
Disposal · CoalExxaro pre-empts Anglo's half of Moranbah South and sells project to Stanmore for $105m$105mPending
Disposal · CoalAnglo American agrees to sell Queensland coal mines to Dhilmar for up to $3.88bn$3.9bnPending
Disposal · CoalPeabody walks away from $3.8bn purchase of Anglo American's steelmaking coal mines$3.8bnTerminated
JSE: ARIDiversifiedAfrican Rainbow MineralsDiversified South African mining group founded in 2003 by Patrice Motsepe through a merger of his mining interests, making him one of the first black industrialists to control a major JSE-listed miner. Motsepe remains its non-executive chairman.
LSE: AALDiversifiedAnglo AmericanLondon-headquartered diversified miner that traces its roots to Johannesburg, where Ernest Oppenheimer founded the Anglo American Corporation in 1917. After demerging its platinum business as Valterra Platinum in 2025 and agreeing to sell its steelmaking coal unit, the group is reshaping itself around copper, premium iron ore and crop nutrients while preparing to merge with Teck Resources to form Anglo Teck.
DiversifiedEurasian Resources GroupPrivately held mining and metals group formed in December 2013 when its founders and the Kazakh state took Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation private, delisting it from the London and Kazakhstan stock exchanges. Kazakhstan retains a 40% shareholding alongside the founding Ibragimov, Mashkevitch and Chodiev families.
JSE: EXXCoalExxaroDiversified South African miner created in 2006 when Kumba Resources was restructured and its coal and mineral sands assets were combined with Eyesizwe Coal. It is now among South Africa's largest thermal coal producers and holds a 20% stake in Sishen Iron Ore Company, its former sister company under Kumba Iron Ore.
