ARC weighing further investment in Kropz’s Cape phosphate mine
AFRICAN Rainbow Capital (ARC) is considering whether it would invest further in the proposed Elandsfontein phosphate mine which it said in an investment update...
Fight goes on as Spoor & Co target coal for compensation...
THE class action to compensate current and former mineworkers who have contracted silicosis and tuberculosis on 30 of South Africa’s gold mines since 1965...
DRDGold, Sibanye-Stillwater benefit most from Charter ruling
ONE of the companies to have benefited most from a recent High Court ruling on the principle of 'once-empowerment, always-empowered' is DRDGold followed by...
Mantashe changes his mind on “once empowered always empowered”
The government intends appealing a court judgement handed down on April 4 on the crucial “once empowered - always empowered” principle which...
South32 shoots the lights out and there’s more to come
The March quarterly report from South32 shows the group is hitting its operational and financial straps at the same time as the prices for...
US sanctions on Russia boost nickel and aluminium prices
The beneficial fallout on certain commodities from US sanctions on giant Russian aluminum producer Rusal - and possible action against Norilsk Nickel - ...
Pallinghurst’s pesky discount to net asset value stays put
Pallinghurst Resources made a net profit of $45m in the year to end-December - marginally up on the $44.6m made in financial 2016 -...
Hulme Scholes gets back on the DMR’s mining charter case
Mining lawyer Hulme Scholes has resumed his campaign to have South Africa’s Mining Charter scrapped in its entirety more than a year after...
MPRD Amendment bill to rear its troublesome head again
THE hullabaloo created by the Mining Charter in the last month has distracted attention from the equally important issue of the Minerals & Petroleum...
Kore Potash opens door on new kind of strategic commodity
FOOD security is an increasingly interesting prospect for investors. According to Ian Harebottle, CEO of Kropz, farmers are expected to produce more food over...