AVZ says Congo lithium deal ‘breaches arbitration order’
AUSTRALIA'S AVZ Minerals, which holds a majority stake in the disputed Manono lithium project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Tuesday said Kinshasa...
Endeavour Mining posts record Q4 production as SEMAFO, Kari Pump contribute
ENDEAVOUR Mining reported a 41% improvement in fourth quarter production of 344,000 ounces of gold compared to the previous quarter - enough to take...
Gold ascent opens new door of opportunity for DRDGold, Johannesburg’s oldest...
AS a boy, Pretorius Snr. would perform the dare-devil feat of any child who grew up in the shadow of Johannesburg’s gold dumps: slide...
Sibanye restructure takes mining sector jobs hit to 21,000 in 14...
MORE misery was heaped on South Africa's precious metals industries after Sibanye Gold announced today it would restructure its Cooke and Beatrix West operations...
ARM, Glencore assessing options on new coal-related BEE deal
THIS month the High Court heard arguments from the Chamber of Mines and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) ahead of a declaratory order...
Sibiya stops short of apology as CCMA fumes
Bheki Sibiya, CEO of the Chamber of Mines, declined to publicly apologise for off-the-record comments made by his chief negotiator about the CCMA.
Pan African sets out R50m option over mothballed Mintails prospects, west...
PAN African Resources is to buy Mintails, a surface gold resource, if a six-month due diligence study stacks up, the company said today.
If it...
Steenkamp insists Harmony can take the strain of R4.1bn Australian expansion
HARMONY Gold pushed the boat out in an unexpected way earlier this month, announcing the R4.1bn purchase of Eva, a copper project in Australia.
The...
Climate threatens global semiconductor copper supply chains
CLIMATE change could disrupt 32% of global semiconductor production by 2035 through copper supply shortages, quadrupling current risk levels, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report...
China’s R7.7bn SA mining splurge confounds
Views vary on why Chinese companies have offered R7.7bn for mining assets in South Africa that can best be described as marginal in the current market.