Wily campaigner Abbott brings history to table at Harmony
IT'S often been remarked of the mining sector that the lack of institutional memory is one of the reasons it repeats past mistakes such...
Acacia lifts dividend as 780,000 oz output hopes buoyed
ACACIA Mining said it could exceed forecast gold production for 2016 of some 780,000 ounces following a strong showing in the first half of...
DRDGold’s Pretorius sees logic of dumps deal with Sibanye
DRDGOLD has been one of the top performers on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange over the past year going up seven-fold from around 170 cents...
Promise for South Deep as Gold Fields tracks 2016 output target
GOLD Fields will keep the gold industry's feel-good factor pumping when it reports a 14 US cents increase in interim share earnings next month....
Dividends on agenda despite Harmony’s debt, capital ‘priorities’
ONE of the painful lessons learned by the mining sector since the collapse of the commodity market has been the importance of using cash...
Harmony hedges 20% of gold as eyes task of building Golpu
HARMONY Gold has hedged a fifth of its gold production for two years - equal to about 432,000 ounces - as it seeks to...
‘Era of uncertainty’ sends gold into new bull phase
IF there’s one thing that can be said for gold, it’s that it never wastes a good crisis.
The last time bullion was at current...
Light at the end of the tunnel for silicosis victims
IT has been a difficult year for the mining industry insofar as health and safety has been concerned, but the tide is turning for...
“We’re ahead at South Deep for first time since I can...
NICK Holland has received a few knocks in his eight years as CEO of Gold Fields including an investigation by the US Securities Regulation...
Sibanye may shut Cooke 4 as losses put complex at risk
SIBANYE Gold has raised the prospect of closing its Cooke 4 mine and Ezulwini gold and uranium processing plant, west of Johannesburg, which was...