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Hydrogen News
State mining training authority backing green hydrogen skills centre creation 
By: Martin Creamer 15th May 2024 “We’re very excited to announce that we’ll be establishing the first centre of specialisation of green hydrogen skills,” South Africa’s Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority (CHIETA) CEO, Yershen Pillay, made public this week. CHIETA is working on this with South Africa’s mining... →
All-round value unlock targeted in proposed demerging of Anglo Platinum and De Beers
By: Martin Creamer 14th May 2024 Diversified mining major Anglo American is targeting value elevation in its planned demerging of South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and the envisaged divestment or demerger of Southern Africa-dominant De Beers. In rejecting BHP’s second takeover offer, Anglo intends reshaping... →
Itochu, $5.9bn South Africa ammonia plant near supply pact
By: Bloomberg 14th May 2024 A group led by Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. is nearing an agreement to buy green ammonia from Hive Hydrogen South Africa, a $5.9 billion project that could make the country a global leader in producing the fuel. Hive Hydrogen may start output of green ammonia — which could be utilized as a... →
Australia to invest A$22.7bn in renewable energy, critical minerals
By: Reuters 14th May 2024 The Australian government on Tuesday announced a A$22.7-billion package to boost domestic manufacturing and renewable energy as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on foreign suppliers for key technologies. Details of the Future Made in Australia package announced in the government's annual... →
Resources Watch
14th May 2024 This week: Copper 360’s underground copper mine set to open three months ahead of schedule; South Deep wind power decision drawing closer, Q2 update likely on backfill problem and, Hydrogen’s ‘irreplaceable’ role highlighted by platinum-linked venture capital provider →
Green energy presenting South Africa with massive reindustrialisation chance – Nedbank
By: Martin Creamer 13th May 2024 Green electrons and green molecules are presenting South Africa with a massive opportunity to reindustrialise, Nedbank CIB head of infrastructure, energy and telecommunications Mike Peo told the Green Hydrogen Roundtable on Monday. “We have an opportunity for South Africa to completely... →
Hydrogen’s ‘irreplaceable’ role highlighted by platinum-linked venture capital provider
By: Martin Creamer 9th May 2024 The role of hydrogen in the decarbonisation of the hardest-to-abate sectors of the global economy continues to be highlighted as “irreplaceable” by AP Ventures, the independent venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage companies that use or enable the use of platinum group metals... →
Platinum-based green hydrogen emerging as Winter Olympics decarbonisation pillar
By: Martin Creamer 3rd May 2024 Green hydrogen, which is generated with the benefit of the catalysis that platinum group metals (PGMs) provide, is being increasingly highlighted as a pillar of the global decarbonisation transition that is poised to save the world from ruinous climate change. News just out is that steps are... →
Resources Watch
2nd May 2024 This week: New green hydrogen trading base uplifting platinum group metals demand outlook; Copper 360 ships concentrate, on course to pay first dividend next year and, Pilot Crushtec introduces Swedish brand of large-scale crushers to the Southern African market →
Fortescue consortium awarded rights to develop Oman green hydrogen project
By: Creamer Media Reporter 30th April 2024 A consortium between green energy and metals group Fortescue and sustainable infrastructure investor Actis has been awarded the rights to develop, build, own and operate a large green hydrogen project in Oman. At a signing ceremony in Muscat on Tuesday, Hydrogen Oman (Hydrom), an independent... →
Implats platinum group metals output up amid robust demand but lacklustre pricing
By: Martin Creamer 30th April 2024 Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Implats on Tuesday reported higher production in a period characterised by robust demand but lacklustre PGM prices. “Despite continued macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, demand from our contractual customers remains robust, with... →
Shanghai Platinum Week: Hydrogen’s going to feature big, says World Platinum Investment Council
By: Martin Creamer 26th April 2024 The growth in demand for platinum applications in China is extremely high, making detailed access to the China market hugely advantageous. Providing this detailed access from July 8 to 11 will be the far-reaching Shanghai Platinum Week 2024, which is sandwiched between the London Platinum Week in... →
Copper shares soar and green hydrogen goes digital
26th April 2024 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks Copper 360’s shares rising more than 26% after it shipped concentrates from the Northern Cape; Orion Minerals shares rocketing to 58% on the Australian Stock Exchange; and the new digital system that can be used to buy and sell green hydrogen. →
Fortescue reports 6% dip in quarterly iron-ore shipments
By: Mariaan Webb 24th April 2024 Australian green energy and iron-ore giant Fortescue has revealed a 6% decline in third-quarter iron-ore shipments, attributed to the repercussions of an ore car derailment on December 30, coupled with weather-related disruptions. The miner, which swiftly implemented a recovery plan, managed to... →
New green hydrogen trading base uplifting platinum group metals demand outlook
By: Martin Creamer 23rd April 2024 The green hydrogen sector now has a digital platform on which users can buy and sell green hydrogen by the click of a button, it was announced on Tuesday. Euronext-listed Lhyfe, the French group devoted to energy transition, has begun taking of orders for green hydrogen in Europe and... →
PGMs and green hydrogen make headlines
19th April 2024 Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discussing palladium and platinum playing a key role in battery electric vehicles; the opportunity around the market development aspect of the platinum group metals industry; and talk of South Africa being well placed to benefit from huge green hydrogen outlook. →
New boost for platinum group metals may arise from emerging eFuel scale-up
By: Martin Creamer 19th April 2024 The emerging use of electrofuel (eFuel) as an interchangeable substitute for petrol, diesel and aviation fuel has the potential to create important new demand for Southern Africa’s platinum group metals (PGMs). This is because eFuel is a combination of green hydrogen and waste carbon dioxide... →
Minerals Council South Africa setting out to boost local demand for green hydrogen
By: Martin Creamer 17th April 2024 Minerals Council South Africa is focused on increasing the domestic demand for green hydrogen, which it sees as contributing to the kickstarting of the hydrogen economy in South Africa. “The applications that we’re looking at are stationary as well as mobility applications of using hydrogen... →
Resources Watch
17th April 2024 This week: Use underground mines for electricity storage, optimise mine water use; Market development of full PGMs basket is essential, Industry Day hears, and, South Africa well placed to benefit from huge green hydrogen outlook →
PGM market development has paid dividends, could pay many more, Platinum Day told
By: Martin Creamer 15th April 2024 The market development aspect of the platinum group metals (PGM) industry is fundamentally key, it was repeatedly stated at last week’s 2024 Resources for Africa Platinum Day. There is strong consensus that PGMs are amazing metals that are incredibly useful as future green metals across a broad... →
Experts proffer suggestions for South Africa's green hydrogen projects to secure financing
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 15th April 2024 There is sufficient funding available for South Africa to progress its green hydrogen objectives, however, certain elements need to be addressed for this to materialise. This was outlined by speakers during the ‘Investment opportunities in green hydrogen’ session, during the 2024 Hydrogen Economy... →
Europe needs global partnerships to meet green hydrogen demand
By: Sabrina Jardim 12th April 2024 Amid a global focus on driving a just energy transition, local and international collaboration initiatives on green hydrogen remain important, speakers highlighted during the Hydrogen Economy Discussion, this week. Delegation of the European Union (EU) to South Africa deputy ambassador Fulgencio... →
Speakers outline green hydrogen challenges, infrastructure hurdles
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 12th April 2024 South Africa’s green hydrogen economy faces complexities and challenges, both upstream and downstream, and this requires technological disruption and commitment beyond the current value chain. This was how EPCM Global Engineering CEO Tumi Kgomo summarised the 'Overcoming challenges of developing... →
Opinion: Moving from hype to reality – how green hydrogen’s role in the energy transition is evolving
12th April 2024 In this article, EY Africa strategy and transactions leader Quintin Hobbs writes about the growth in green hydrogen demand and the related growth in electrolyser demand. It is now clear that green hydrogen will play a pivotal role in the global energy transition, especially in hard-to-decarbonise... →
Hydrogen, PGMs, underground mine energy storage make headlines
12th April 2024 In this week's episode of Second Take, Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses hydrogen’s role as a global energy solution; the market development of the full PGMs basket being essential; and about how South Africa’s underground mines could be used as batteries that store energy. →
South Africa well placed to benefit from huge green hydrogen outlook, attendees hear
By: Martin Creamer 11th April 2024 Green hydrogen has a massive potential future and South Africa is very well positioned to produce it, attendees of the Hydrogen Economy Discussion heard on Thursday. Most of the 90-million tonnes of hydrogen produced currently through the likes of South Africa’s Sasol and others is grey. →
Market development of full PGMs basket is essential, Industry Day hears
By: Martin Creamer 10th April 2024 Representatives of the producers of 90% of the world’s climate-vital platinum group metals (PGMs) heard during Wednesday’s PGMs Industry Day that market development of the full PGMs basket – and not just platinum and palladium – is essential at this time of global implementation of a cleaner and... →
Platinum-linked green hydrogen set to be world’s ‘new oil’, Forbes article highlights 
By: Martin Creamer 10th April 2024 There's no climate solution without hydrogen. It’s the missing piece of the clean energy puzzle, says a global CEO-led initiative that brings together leading companies with a united vision. This initiative has ballooned to 150 multinationals companies from its modest 13-leader 2017 launch at the... →
Hydrogen economy, platinum group metals go together.
Fortescue forges green hydrogen, ammonia partnership with OCP in Morocco
By: Creamer Media Reporter 9th April 2024 Fortescue Energy, part of Australian iron-ore major Fortescue, on Tuesday unveiled a joint venture with Morocco-headquartered plant nutrition and phosphate-based fertiliser supplier OCP Group. The equal partnership aims to supply green hydrogen, ammonia and fertilisers to Morocco, Europe and... →
Use underground mines for electricity storage, optimise mine water use – Karst Hydro
By: Martin Creamer 8th April 2024 South Africa’s many underground mines can be used as batteries that store the clean electricity that the water descending for cooling can provide. At the same time, the local community could end up with a utility that supplies them clean water along with a store of cheap and reliable green energy. →
Fortescue opens major Gladstone electrolyser manufacturing facility
By: Mariaan Webb 8th April 2024 Mining and green energy company Fortescue on Monday opened the first manufacturing facility in Australia to build hydrogen electrolysers at commercial scale. The 15 000 m2 advanced manufacturing facility, in Gladstone, Queensland, has an initial capacity to produce 2 GW/y of proton exchange... →
Mines investing R46m to put an end to fall-of-ground fatalities
By: Martin Creamer 5th April 2024 South Africa’s mining industry is investing R46-million in an action plan to eliminate fall-of-ground (FoG) fatalities. The FoG action plan is being implemented through Minerals Council South Africa with the assistance of its Rock Engineering Technical Committee, and supported by the South... →
New electrochemical PGMs demand on way, iridium scarcity fears eased still further
By: Martin Creamer 4th April 2024 A far-reaching new drive is under way to ease iridium scarcity still further and, especially in the short term, demand for platinum group metals (PGMs) from electrochemical processes is on the way. That is the news from clean chemistry company Mattiq, which aims to decarbonise chemicals production. →
Developments in copper, fuel cells, platinum group metals make headlines
4th April 2024 This week on Second Take, Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses African Rainbow Minerals acquiring 15% of Canada’s Surge Copper; the brand-new platinum-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell system, which is as cheap to make as a conventional car engine; and Nedbank noting current low PGM prices... →
Sasol streamlines its executive committee’s portfolios
By: Schalk Burger 3rd April 2024 JSE-listed energy and chemicals company Sasol has streamlined the portfolios of the members of its group executive committee, with effect from April 1. This involves changes to important functions and executive responsibilities of the directors. As previously announced, Simon Baloyi has succeeded... →
Current low PGM prices not reflective of supply/demand fundamentals – Nedbank CIB
By: Martin Creamer 2nd April 2024 Platinum group metals (PGM) prices, where they are now, do not reflect the medium to long-term supply demand fundamentals. Instead, they are driven by short-term distortions, which imply that a correction from current levels could be seen. →
New platinum-based hydrogen fuel cell as cheap to make as conventional car engine
By: Martin Creamer 2nd April 2024 The brand-new platinum-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell system that has just been released for passenger cars reveals that fuel cells can be as cheap to manufacture as internal combustion engines (ICEs), UK company Intelligent Energy has highlighted in a release to Mining Weekly. The company’s... →
More green hydrogen insight on way as Southern African scientists head to Germany
By: Martin Creamer 28th March 2024 Twelve scientists from Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries will head to Germany in May, where they will have an opportunity to obtain more in-depth insight into green hydrogen amid the region’s unveiling of important green hydrogen projects, pilot plant initiatives and the... →
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