Base Metals

Steel producer Higveld Steel and Vanadum has reported a 31.4% increase in its hot metal production.

AFRITIN Mining, a tin development company that listed in London last week, anticipates it will need to raise £20m in order to restore production...

Orion Minerals has reported further encouraging drilling results from its Prieska zinc-copper project in the Northern Cape and has started looking at whether it...

Metorex sells a 15% stake in its Vergenoeg fluorspar mine, raising R108m towards funding of its Ruashi copper/cobalt mine and paying down debt.

Mining and metals company First Quantum Minerals increased its copper production for the second quarter of 2009 by 14%.

The transformer issues at Metorex’s flagship mine are a thing of the past, enabling the group to deliver while copper is trading at record highs, says management.

Higher royalties in Zambia look likely to stay after votes counted so far in a presidential by-election give the lead to the Patriotic Front's Edgar Lungu.

Investment bank JP Morgan has grabbed more than half the copper on the London Metal Exchange, reports The Daily Telegraph.

Exxaro's KZ Sands titanium smelter could be saved by the recent upturn in the titanium market if the group can strike suitable deals with customers who want the smelter to stay in operation.

VEDANTA would seek an urgent meeting with the Zambian government after it filed notice of plans to seize the Indian firm's copper assets, held...