Lemur signs $1m finance deal for Madagascar’s Imaloto project with DBSA
LEMUR Holdings, a subsidiary of UK-listed Bushveld Minerals, has raised $1m from the Development Bank of Southern Africa which will be used to develop...
Zimbabwe miners want Mnangagwa’s government to turn words into action
THE Zimbabwe government is carrying out a major overhaul of the country’s mining legislation and regulations, but the southern African country's miners are waiting...
Mantashe lauds Rio Tinto’s R6.5bn investment in Richards Bay Minerals
SOUTH African mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, lauded a decision by Anglo-Australian group, Rio Tinto, to expand Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) saying the investment confirmed...
Ethical investors give mining firms 45 days to make public facility...
SOME of the world's largest mining companies have been asked by a group of ethical investors to make public details regarding every facility they...
Moody’s waiting on structural reform, elections before deciding SA credit rating...
MOODY'S Investors Service had given South Africa the benefit of time in order to conclude national elections and implement structural reforms before making a...
Base Resources will consider equity participation in $439m Toliara project
BASE Resources would consider an equity partner for its Toliara mineral sands project in Madagascar which had "logic and appeal', but it was not...
Mantashe slams Minerals Council, saying judicial review is excuse to cut...
SOUTH Africa’s mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, said a decision by the Minerals Council South Africa to seek a judicial review on the Mining Charter...
Firestone ices Cut 3 life of mine extension at Liqhobong as...
FIRESTONE Diamonds has iced plans to expand the life of its Liqhobong mine in Lesotho owing to market conditions that it said did not...
SA govt. “disconcerted” as mining sector takes Mining Charter on judicial...
THE South African government described a court application to take the recently redrafted Mining Charter on judicial review as "disconcerting", adding that the development...
Mining Charter heading back to court after Minerals Council seeks judicial...
SOUTH Africa's Mining Charter is heading back to court.
The Minerals Council South Africa announced today it had filed an application for a judicial review...