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Bonhomie aside, Zwane and Baxter disagree on the charter

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WAS it coincidence that led the Chamber of Mines (CoM) and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) to hold separate press conferences following yesterday's...

Terence Goodlace to leave Implats by December

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TERENCE Goodlace has tendered his resignation as CEO of Impala Platinum (Implats), a surprise development that was accepted at a company board meeting today....

Eskom’s Molefe bets on power surplus in “a few years”

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SOUTH African power utility, Eskom, said it would have sufficient excess capacity to make additional revenue from electricity exports within a few years and...

Gold miners net cash by 2018 as Goldmans ups price deck

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ANALYSTS are throwing their weight behind a stronger gold market in the medium term with Goldman Sachs upgrading its dollar gold price deck by...

Who stands to hurt most if ‘new’ mining charter prevails?

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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...

Draft charter is “economic suicide” for SA

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MINING minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, has caused significant damage to South Africa’s economy with the release of a new draft Mining Charter, said a senior...

Shock new charter may outflank industry bid for legal clarity

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LAWYERS have expressed concern over a new draft version of the Mining Charter that was published this afternoon and deduced that the unexpected move...

What De Beers thinks of selling granny’s diamonds

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FOR decades De Beers sold diamonds on the basis of their eternal and unique appeal. Both these characteristics, however, are being unseated by a...

Kimberley museum ‘enraged’ as miner threatens stone age site

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THE McGregor Museum in South Africa's Kimberley has interdicted diamond mining on Canteen Kopje - an internationally famous archaeological site near Barkly West –...

Mining charter court bids may be consolidated, say attorneys

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SOUTH Africa's mining industry believes taking disagreements about the interpretation of the mining charter to the court is the best means to solving an...