West Africa burgeoning with potential for gold sector after years of...
WEST Africa has been identified as a source of new gold following a period of lean exploration spend by the world's gold industry, now...
Zimplats stands firm despite policy chaos
Platinum mining in Zimbabwe has been thrown into disarray once again but the CEO of Impala Platinum's unit there says there are no plans to quit the country.
Nedbank, RMB part of $375m deal with De Beers for world’s...
FIVE African commercial banks have partnered in a $375m financing deal to build a new diamond mining vessel for a subsidiary of Anglo American’s...
Optimum may extend Hendrina coal supply
Optimum Coal has offered to continue supplying Eskom's Hendrina coal mine beyond November whilst the Mpumalanga colliery undergoes business rescue.
RBM hoping 130MW solar project will help it regain full production...
THE 130MW solar power plant to be built by titanium producer Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) looks crucial to help restore production levels at the...
Minerals Council victorious in ‘once-empowered, always empowered’ judicial review
THE Minerals Council of South Africa scored a critical victory today after the High Court ruled the Mining Charter was an instrument of policy...
Question mark hangs over Lonmin future
Johannesburg's platinum stocks have all been battered in the last 45 days, but it's the full extent of metal price weakness on Lonmin that is the most engaging.
Miners to negotiate regulations as DRC’s Kabila unmoved on law
MINING companies operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including Randgold Resources and Glencore, agreed with the government to negotiate the mining regulations...
Can De Beers crack the spending power of Gen Z, a...
IRISH playwright George Bernard Shaw once observed that "Youth is wasted on the young", but what’s less known is that the sentence ends: "...
Merafe says chrome export duty imminent
An export duty on chrome ore would help stop the slide in South Africa’s
market share of ferrochrome and protect jobs, Merafe Resources CEO Stuart
Elliot said.