Old ills, strikes, Eskom sees SA mining sector miss again on...
COMMUNITY protests and strikes are preventing South African mines from taking advantage of current price increases, Minerals Council SA CEO, Roger Baxter, said at...
EGA bauxite stockpiles top two million tons amid Guinea dispute
EMIRATES Global Aluminium's Guinea subsidiary has accumulated nearly two million metric tons of bauxite since operations were suspended last year, sources told Reuters on...
MC Mining prices R15m share sale to IDC at 9% discount
MC Mining, a Johannesburg-listed coal producer and development firm, said it had agreed to sell 14.2 million shares to the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)...
CRG stares into a watery grave
Central Rand Gold is teetering on the edge as the government stalls on a proposed joint solution to deal with the flood of acid mine drainage rising beneath the Witwatersrand.
Implats boss describes AMCU’s under-fire Mathunjwa “extraordinary business partner”
IMPALA Platinum (Implats) CEO, Nico Muller, was the latest platinum group metal (PGM) executive to strike a conciliatory note in respect of Joseph Mathunjwa, president...
Zim mining body offers equity compromise
Zimbabwe's mining industry has proposed that "social investments" count towards meeting new economic empowerment regulations for foreign mining firms.
Harmony waiting on PNG bonanza
Harmony Gold has talked up the billing of its Wafi-Golpu project as the "gold find of the century', but questions remain over the group’s immediate growth prospects.
Johann Rupert confirms diamond tailings ventures
Johann Rupert's Reinet Investments has confirmed it will be part of a new waste tailings diamond venture at De Beers' former Jagersfontein mine in the Free State.
De Beers goes back into Angola after the country radically improves...
De Beers is to start diamond exploration in Angola later this year after signing two mineral investment contracts with the Angolan government but the...
Zimbabwe rejects Arcelor’s Zisco bid
Zimbabwe rejects a takeover bid by South Africa's ArcelorMittal for state steel maker ZISCO in a move that could slow a drive to attract foreign investment.