Reluctant boss, Venkat, was AngloGold’s change agent provocateur
For a person with an avowed dislike for change, it’s astonishing how much of it Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan (Venkat) has brought about at AngloGold Ashanti,...
Seabed mining the next frontier as DeepGreen trawls Pacific for copper
DeepGreen Metals, which plans to extract copper, cobalt, zinc and manganese from the seabed in the Pacific Ocean, says it is making steady progress...
Sibanye-Stillwater’s five-year glitch
Neal Froneman emerges from his office looking worse for wear. I remark so. "I’ve got a lot on my shoulders at the moment," he replies....
The day South32 put M&A firmly back on the industry’s radar
SOUTH32's $1.3bn cash offer for Arizona Mining, a base metals exploration firm, feels like a significant moment for the Perth-listed company which, no matter...
Harmony’s in race against time as suns sets over SA gold
HARMONY Gold CEO, Peter Steenkamp, has done better than many believed possible since he took over the troubled gold group in January 2016 with...
Does South Deep crisis close our eyes to the good in...
THE enigma concerning Gold Fields is this: how come a group with roots going back a century in deep-level gold mining in South Africa...
Rustenburg is a tightrope that must be traversed: Implats’ Muller
This article first appeared in The Mining Yearbook 2018 distributed through Finweek on August 9, but written a month before. The article has been...
Exxaro weighing survival as global energy debate rolls on
MXOLISI Mgojo acknowledges the need to put his "own stamp" on Exxaro Resources, the coal, mineral sands, and iron ore company to which he...
Pan African content with surface to underground gold mix
A TOUGH operational year that saw gold production by Pan African Resources (Panaf) retreat by 4.4% to 173 000 oz has seemingly driven a...
Venkat optimism dimmed as AngloGold SA mines face “the inevitable”
TWO years ago – when interviewed for the 2015 Miningmx yearbook – AngloGold Ashanti CEO Srinivasan 'Venkat' Venkatakrishnan hit all the right optimistic notes...