The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) will advance collaboration, funding mobilisation and technology uptake in help of mining modernisation on day two of Investing in African Mining Indaba (10 February 2026).
According to TIA, an entity of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), South Africa stays a globally important mining jurisdiction, significantly for important minerals that underpin the Just Transition and net-zero ambitions. As the sector faces declining productiveness, rising prices and security challenges, TIA’s participation will spotlight how science, technology and innovation (STI) can ship sensible, scalable and commercially viable options that improve competitiveness and sustainability.
Over the previous decade, TIA has invested roughly R100-million in mining and mining-related applied sciences throughout the worth chain, supporting a portfolio of 15 initiatives, a number of of which have been commercialised globally and are producing returns.
Profiling confirmed mining innovation
While TIA-supported corporations won’t be exhibiting, the company will actively promote and profile validated, market-ready applied sciences by its communications, engagements and thought management at the occasion. These embody:
- Smart Sensor Process Advisory Dashboard by Stone Three Digital: An actual-time digital answer enhancing productiveness, vitality effectivity and security in mineral processing.
- Blue Cube MQi by Blue Cube: A patented in-line mineral measurement technology enabling real-time course of management in flotation vegetation, supporting product growth and worldwide market development.
- cloSURE™ AMD Treatment Technology by Mintek, Thungela, Moss Group and the University of Pretoria: A passive organic answer treating acid mine drainage to legislated limits, enabling secure agricultural water reuse and circular-economy outcomes.
- KNeW™ Process by Trailblazer Technologies: A round answer changing excessive sulphate mine water into potable water and plant diet merchandise, validated by pre-commercial trials and attracting worldwide curiosity.
- CMTI Unmanned Mining Technologies: Remote-operated mining gear designed to enhance security and unlock beforehand inaccessible reserves, demonstrating the potential to increase mine life by disruptive innovation.
Collectively, these applied sciences spotlight the position of STI in enhancing productiveness, security, environmental efficiency and the long-term sustainability of the mining sector.
TIA participation
TIA’s head for Energy and Natural Resources, Daya Naidoo, will take part in a panel dialogue exploring how collaborative partnerships, enabled by South Africa’s science and innovation coverage framework and co-ordinated by the DSTI, are modernising the mining trade and supporting a extra aggressive and sustainable future.
Session particulars
Topic: Harnessing collaborative partnerships to modernise the mining innovation ecosystem
Time: 15:50–16:50
Venue: Nubian Pyramids Stage, Technology and Innovation Hub (CTICC2 – Ground Floor,
Exhibition Hall)
TIA can even exhibit at the DSTI and its entities pavilion, with DSTI serving because the title sponsor
of the Emerging Tech Showcase, branded as “The Emerging Tech Showcase powered by
DSTI”, positioning government-backed innovation at the forefront of the Mining Indaba.
Source: Supplied by the Technology Innovation Agency