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.
Uranium spot prices, which touched about $101 a pound in January 2026 before settling near $84-$90, remain high enough to support producing African mines but still leave some greenfield projects waiting on the sidelines.
RAMINVEST Holding has outlined six priority drill targets at its Wompou gold project in Mauritania after surface sampling returned assays as high as 50.14 grams per tonne gold.
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.
Theta Gold Mines has made the first drawdown of $37m under its bond facility of up to $90m, releasing construction funding for the TGME gold project near Pilgrim's Rest in Mpumalanga.
The World Platinum Investment Council has swung its 2026 forecast from a 297koz deficit to a 265koz surplus, blaming a 601koz cut to expected investment demand after ETF outflows in the first half.
Ivanhoe Mines has increased the mineral resource at its Makoko District copper discovery in the DRC by 30%, to roughly 12 million tonnes of contained copper, on the back of an aggressive 2026 drilling campaign.
Ivanhoe Mines expanded its Makoko copper discovery in the DRC by 30% to about 12 million tonnes of contained copper, and plans a scoping study for early 2027.
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.
Zimbabwe's High Court has dismissed an attempt by Caledonia Mining's Blanket Mine to stop a $335,966 damages claim brought by the widow of a miner killed in a 2022 underground accident.
Mantra Tanzania says it will resume construction of the main Mkuju River uranium plant in October 2026, after Tanzania's minerals minister set a 2029 target for first production.
Caledonia Mining published a maiden measured and indicated resource of 379,000oz at Motapa and raised Blanket's underground M&I resource by 22% to 2.18Moz.
Northam Platinum set a Vision 2031 target of more than 1.5 million ounces of annual PGM sales, with chief executive Paul Dunne citing new industrial demand from artificial intelligence and robotics.
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed Kalagadi Manganese's challenge to the IDC's authority to place the Northern Cape miner into business rescue, ending a long legal battle over its debts.
Harmony Gold produced 1.43Moz in the year to June 2026, within guidance, and lifted headline earnings per share 87% to 4,363c, with Mponeng and Moab Khotsong generating a 38% free cash flow margin.
Northam Platinum said on 25 August 2026 it had received an unsolicited, non-binding approach from a major South African PGM producer, reported by Bloomberg to be Valterra Platinum, and invited rival bids.
Grindrod has outlined five growth projects through 2028, including a 12-million-tonne Matola terminal expansion at Maputo and entry into South Africa's open-access rail network.
Analysts and PGM producer executives say demand for iridium and ruthenium from AI-related data storage, optical networks and semiconductors is emerging as a significant new driver for the sector.
Niger's cabinet has granted a uranium mining permit for the In Azaoua area near Arlit to Tsumco SA, a state company created after Niger nationalised Orano's Somaïr mine, formalising its control of ground once run by the French group.
Resolute Mining posted a $162.6m net profit for H1 2026 as record gold prices offset lower group output, with its Senegalese unit paying a $121.3m dividend that included the government's share.
The European Commission has commissioned consultants to help Namibia draft a National Critical Raw Materials Strategy covering uranium, lithium and rare earths, as Windhoek balances competing EU and Chinese interest in its minerals.
A tailings dam at Samancor's Dikwena chrome operation near Brits collapsed on 13 August 2026 after heavy rain, releasing a multi-kilometre trail of mineral waste and damaging Eskom infrastructure.
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.
On the 14th anniversary of the Marikana shootings, unions and political parties renewed calls for President Ramaphosa to declare 16 August an official memorial day, saying affected families remain without closure.
