Acacia Mining minorities can’t afford to turn down Barrick’s Tanzania proposal
THE hullabaloo that followed Barrick Gold’s $18bn hostile takeover proposal of Newmont Mining, now withdrawn after the two firms agreed to pool their Nevada...
From DRD to Gold Road: the quiet rise of Ian Murray
This article was first published in The Mining Yearbook 2025
Some people are destined to be accountants; others feel they should have a seat on...
First Uranium to layoff staff at Ezulwini
First Uranium may retrench up to half of its employees at struggling Ezulwini, saying workers will have to prove their worth over Christmas to minimise layoffs.
Centamin reports 13% increase in measured and indicated reserves at Egypt...
CENTAMIN said it had increased measured and indicated reserves at its Sukari gold mine in Egypt for the second successive year including reserves in the...
Great Basin’s Burnstone mine up and running
Great Basin Gold says in a Q4 2010 production update that its Burnstone Mine in South Africa had commenced with production build-up.
AngloGold bids $370m in cash for Corvus Gold as seeks to...
ANGLOGOLD Ashanti has bid $370m for the shares it doesn't already own in Corvus Gold, an exploration company with activities focused on the Nevada...
Manica won’t pay for Pan African’s Evander deal
Pan African Resources says it will soon announce final details on the spin-off of
its Manica project in Mozambique, but the proceeds won’t go towards payment
for Evander.
Cash flush gold miners in search of balance between dividends and...
THE world's gold mining companies are facing a fresh dilemma of whether to spend their new-found positive cash flow on increasing dividend payments, or investing...
AngloGold pays windfall first half dividend after Congo mine profits unlocked
ANGLOGOLD Ashanti passed through some of the long awaited cash out of its Congo mine Kibali to shareholders today announcing it would pay a...
Sibanye lights up subdued SA gold sector
Sibanye Gold's cash generating ability heightened the prospect of a dividend, and
shed light on a be-dimmed gold sector pressured by a falling gold price.