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.
African Rainbow Minerals' iron ore division booked a 41% drop in headline earnings for the year to June 2026, hit by weak prices and the cost of shutting Beeshoek, even as group profit recovered to nearly R4bn.
Kumba Iron Ore will supply iron ore to steel mills in the China Mineral Resources Group network from April 2026 to March 2027, under a contract Bloomberg estimates could cover 8 to 10 million tonnes.
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.
Kumba Iron Ore kept its full-year production and sales targets intact despite a 41% drop in interim headline earnings, record Northern Cape rainfall, a stronger rand and sharply higher freight costs.
Australia's Sundance Resources has won an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration against Cameroon worth about $616m in damages, interest and costs over the Mbalam iron ore deposit.
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.JSE: AFTDiversifiedAfrimatDiversified South African materials and mining group founded in 2006 and listed on the JSE. It has expanded from construction aggregates into bulk commodities such as iron ore and manganese through a series of acquisitions.
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.ManganeseAssmangUnlisted South African iron ore and manganese producer incorporated in 1935, owned in equal 50:50 shares by Assore and African Rainbow Minerals. It ranks among the country's largest exporters of both commodities.
