South Africa’s illegal gold mining is surging again
Against the backdrop of record high prices for gold, Sibanye-Stillwater has reported a surge in illegal mining incidents and arrests around its South African...
Harmony Gold to write down Target North by R2.79bn
HARMONY Gold plans to write-down its Target North gold resource in the Free State province for R2.79bn – a development that takes the gloss...
How Draslovka is using a food additive to produce cleaner gold
ABOUT 10 years ago scientists at Curtin University in Western Australia discovered gold particles on plant leaves. They theorised that the gold molecules had...
Gold Fields hopes to finalise the Tarkwa JV this year ahead...
GOLD Fields was hoping to finalise the joint venture between its Tarkwa mine in Ghana and AngloGold Ashanti’s neighbouring Iduapriem mine later this year...
Gold Fields CEO Mike Fraser lays out his vision for the...
NEWLY appointed Gold Fields CEO Mike Fraser is embarking on a major restructuring pinning the group’s future on four long-life mines which will “anchor”...
DRDGold should have a decision on Okiep copper tailings project in...
DRDGOLD expects to complete the initial test work on various tailings dams owned by Copper 360 around Okiep in the Northern Cape within nine...
DRDGold gives priority to R10bn capex over dividends
CAPITAL expenditure will take priority over dividend payments for the next three years until DRDGold completes a R10bn programme to add another ton of...
SA gold sector in deep decline despite record prices says Minerals...
THE record high gold price has not been able to stop the “deep structural decline” of South Africa’s gold sector according to Minerals Council...
Bristow calls ‘B-S’ on retirement speculation
BARRICK Gold CEO Mark Bristow has described an article in Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail reporting that he "raised the possibility he may...
DRDGold misses the boat on the gold price as production drops
DRDGOLD is the latest gold producer to miss out on the gold bonanza of the past six months because of falls in production which...