Juukan Gorge inquiry shows “world has turned” for miners with outdated...
AN inquiry into the destruction of ancient Aboriginal caves this year by Rio Tinto is expected to have far-reaching governance and legal consequences for...
Is Assore planning a move into PGMs after taking beachhead in...
ASSORE, the iron ore investment company, has bought a 5% stake in Gemfields which mines and markets emeralds and rubies from Zambia and Mozambique,...
Vedanta Zinc’s Gamsberg mine resumes production following November accident
PRODUCTION at Vedanta Zinc International's (VZI's) Gamsberg mine in the Northern Cape of South Africa had resumed following an accident in November in which...
Mathunjwa in full cry as AMCU confirms Sibanye strike
AFTER several months of relative quiet, Joseph Mathunjwa, president of the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU), stirred up fresh controversy vowing to...
Criticism rains in on SA Govt’s misguided proposal to tax chrome...
A PROPOSED tax intended to incentivise the production of South African ferrochrome would hurt the country's chrome industry, although it sent shares of one...
RBCT stockpiles ‘almost depleted’
South Africa has joined coal exporters facing shipment delays after three derailments on the line from mines to Richards Bay Coal Terminal brought stocks to very low levels, says industry sources.
Floods push coal price to one-year high
Fresh flooding in top global exporter Australia has added a further $10 to coal prices, driving thermal coal to a year high.
Shanta Gold takes gross debt down to lowest level in decade...
SHANTA Gold repurchased outstanding loan notes and repaid a debt facility with a commercial bank taking gross debt to $1m, described by the firm's...
Eskom making “contingency plans” as Eloise tropical storm poses threat to...
ESKOM, the South African power utility, said it had put contingency plans in place to prepare for excessive rainfall across Mpumalanga province which was...
Wescoal’s star continues to rise
Wescoal Holdings established furthers its credentials as a coal stock on the rise posting solid interim results and saying it could grow by acquisition.