South32 forecast to generate $3bn in free cash flow from 2020
SOUTH32 has established itself in the global diversified mining resources market as a stock high on investor returns and low on risky merger and...
Mantashe guilty of wishful thinking if Govt is to buy distressed...
IMPALA Platinum CEO, Nico Muller, hastened to clarify at a company press meeting on September 13 that when he said unprofitable Rustenburg shafts could...
DMR confirms Mining Charter to be handed to Cabinet next week
SOUTH Africa's Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) confirmed it expected to complete a redraft of the Mining Charter, a Cabinet review on September 19...
SA miners ignore the proposed Carbon Tax at their peril, warns...
THE South African mining industry cannot continue to "... stick its head in the sand" about a proposed tax on carbon emissions because there...
Pressure on Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa to deliver on election promises
INVESTORS in Zimbabwe’s mining sector, including Impala Platinum (Implats), want President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s new administration to be consistent on the country's economic policy because...
Investors fret ARM will seek M&A after clawing back stability
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals' (ARM's) solid results for the year to end-June have moved the group into a powerful financial and strategic position, but investors...
Anglo’s Cutifani cools talk of a threat from the East
February 2015 will live in the memory as the day Mark Cutifani stared down a sceptical market which believed he’d responded too slowly to...
Sibanye-Stillwater to retire $400m in debt following streaming deal
SIBANYE-Stillwater wasted little time putting the $500m received in July from its streaming deal to good use with the company today announcing it would...
Surge in resource nationalism blind to the consequences
Investors in a number of mining companies operating in Africa – including Randgold Resources, Acacia Mining and Ivanhoe Mines – have had some unpleasant surprises...
Kimberley licence award shifted the debate on ‘zama-zamas’
After years of protests and stand-offs with police and security guards, the June victory which saw thousands of zama-zamas (artisanal and illegal miners) in...