MOD Resources throws weight behind improved A$167m takeover bid by Sandfire...
MOD Resources, the Sydney-listed company developing the T3 project in Botswana's emerging Kalahari copperbelt, today threw its weight behind an improved takeover offer from...
Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa wants country to have new currency by year-end
ZIMBABWE was planning to establish a new currency by the end of this or in the first quarter of 2020 as it sought to...
Pension funds promise to “deal robustly” with tailings dams non-disclosure
PENSION funds have promised to "deal robustly" with mining companies that failed to disclose the location and design of their tailings dam, said Reuters.
Citing...
Booze banned as 142-year old LME aims of overhauling standards of...
BOOZE has been banned during working hours for traders operating on the London Metal Exchange (LME) in an effort to tidy up standards at...
Frontier Security founder Erik Prince registers mining subsidiary in DRC
ERIK Prince, the founder of controversial security company, Blackwater, and who said earlier this year he planned to raise $500m to develop mines in...
As SA’s junior mining sector stumbles, here’s six African juniors making...
SOUTH Africa's ability to attract early stage funding for junior and exploration activity has declined in recent years, according to S&P's Global Market Intelligence research...
Tailings reports just the tip of the iceberg as mining’s footprint...
MINING companies globally published details of their tailings depositions on June 7 in compliance with demands issued by the Church of England Pensions Board...
SA mining is facing catastrophe unless it can manage the effects...
ACCORDING to the Minerals Council South Africa, full-time employment in the mining sector has shrunk by 56,366 employees over the past five years, from...
Cash flush mining fails to woo investors who are deterred by...
DIVIDENDS have never been higher and growth capital at some $57bn last year represented the first increase in five years, but the world's mining sector...
Mantashe renews defence of coal, urges investors to weigh CGS’s new...
SOUTH African mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, sought to broaden the debate about the prospects for the country's electricity utility, Eskom, to one regarding 'energy...