Founded by Martin Creamer in 1981 as Creamer Media, with the first tabloid edition of Engineering News published on March 13 of that year, Mining Weekly came into being as a dedicated weekly trade publication in 1995 to serve the African mining industry with specialized coverage of commodities, projects, regulation, and corporate developments across the continent. Creamer built his independent publishing company from its Johannesburg base into a multi-title operation that today includes Mining Weekly, Engineering News Online, Polity.org.za, Research Channel Africa, and the Product Portal, with news generated from a main newsroom in Johannesburg and bureaus in Toronto and Perth alongside contributors across Africa and India. Today, Mining Weekly operates under Creamer Media, headquartered at 4th Floor, Bedford Centre on the corner of Smith and Kirby Roads in Bedfordview, Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa. Today, Mining Weekly is mainly focused on South African and African mining industry news covering gold, platinum, coal, diamonds, uranium, base metals, health and safety, environmental regulation, and mining project developments from their headquarters in Bedfordview, Gauteng, South Africa. One interesting fact: Despite being a specialized trade publication with a print circulation of around 18,591 copies weekly as of early 2025, Mining Weekly's readership of over 34,505 reflects a high pass-along rate, meaning each physical copy reaches multiple readers, which is common in professional trade publishing where single copies circulate through entire engineering and executive teams.