What De Beers thinks of selling granny’s diamonds
FOR decades De Beers sold diamonds on the basis of their eternal and unique appeal. Both these characteristics, however, are being unseated by a...
Global gold output to fall in 2017/18 after hitting fresh record
THE gold price would average $1,259 per ounce in 2017, according to the GFMS Gold Survey 2017, published by ThomsonReuters which warned, however, that...
Miningmx’s new look: Letter from the editor
Dear Reader
This is the second time Miningmx's website has been redesigned. The first time was around 2006 a few years after the publication was...
Motsepe will shut mines rather than bow to misled communities
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) chairman, Patrice Motsepe, has sounded a dire warning over the "highly politicized" interaction between the mining sector and the...
Froneman delivers unflinching view of SA mining legacy, calls for rapprochement
SOUTH Africa's mining industry must acknowledge past deeds of inhumanity and immorality before it could shape a future in which it overcame the hostile...
Why it’s so hard to mine in SA’s North West province
LONMIN warned shareholders that whilst the second half of its financial year was seasonally better than the first – with normally less disruptions –...
SA’s mining bosses defend multi-million rand pay cheques
AN audience poll at the Joburg Indaba conference earlier this month found that 53.4% of those who attended – around several hundred – thought...
Who stands to hurt most if ‘new’ mining charter prevails?
SIBANYE Gold is one of the companies thought to be most at risk by the South African government’s surprise ‘third’ mining charter, a document...
Safety audits underpin dysfunctional DMR, industry relationship
ANGLOGOLD Ashanti CEO, Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, came up with an interesting illustration of how the increasing number of safety audits conducted on South Africa’s mines...
Zwane, CoM lead SA mining into unchartered waters
THE word from South Africa's mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, is that discussions with the Chamber of Mines over a new mining charter have been...