Power procurement is a project risk miners dare not get wrong
THE history of the South African mining and energy industries has been tightly intertwined for more than a century and both owe their very...
Patrice Motsepe is an enigma but on Transnet he spoke the...
IMAGINE sitting in a brainstorming session with Patrice Motsepe, the chair of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and erstwhile owner of football club Mamelodi Sundowns?...
Another nail in JSE’s flailing mining sector as RBPlat bids farewell
THE South African mining story of the year has surely been the epic tussle between Implats and Northam for RBPlats. It is all over...
Three fold value lift in mining shares puts the lie to...
ARE mining companies still deriving benefit from a JSE listing? I suggest a resounding yes, regardless that there have been a number of companies...
How long before Gold Fields follows AngloGold to New York?
THE shift of AngloGold Ashanti shares to a primary New York listing was always going to attract negative headlines for South Africa, but it's a...
SA mining’s talks with Transnet yet to yield results as export...
JUST who does the Minerals Council and some of its members think they are fooling with comments like "constructive engagement" with Transnet and "willing...
Why can’t SA take leaf out of Zambia’s reform book?
ZAMBIA is on the up. You can see it when you drive from the Kenneth Kaunda Airport, a stark and overpriced reminder of the...
PIC may have given Implats an open invitation to bid higher...
IS the battle for control of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) heading for a draw? That's one interpretation given that the firm's largest single shareholder,...
Transnet’s demand for more BEE proves Government doesn’t “get it” …...
ACCORDING to Dante's Inferno the Gates of Hell bear an inscription saying "abandon all hope, ye who enter here" and, after attending the Joburg...
Factors behind latest spate of fatalities is hardest nut of all...
THE deterioration in safety performance on South Africa's mines in the second half of the year must be particularly concerning to the Minerals Council.
That's...