ARM ponders copper, platinum cuts; investment in Kumba
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) intends carrying out further cutbacks and workforce reductions on its copper and platinum operations as depressed commodity prices dropped the...
Chamber of Mines boycotts Zwane at Joburg Indaba shindig
THE Chamber of Mines appears to be anxious to avoid a repeat of the fireworks of the Africa Down Under conference last month when...
Pityana dubs Zuma “sponsor of corruption” in breathtaking attack
ANGLOGOLD Ashanti chairman, Sipho Pityana, today launched an all-out attack on President Jacob Zuma calling for his immediate departure from office and describing him...
Transnet rues economy as coal, iron ore volumes falter
TRANSNET, the state-owned logistics, transport and infrastructure business, recorded declines in export volumes of nearly all the commodities it handles including coal which fell...
Motsepe will shut mines rather than bow to misled communities
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) chairman, Patrice Motsepe, has sounded a dire warning over the "highly politicized" interaction between the mining sector and the...
Sibanye’s Froneman makes case to lead SA’s mining champion as PIC...
NEAL Froneman, CEO of Sibanye Gold, reiterated his company's interest in helping to form a South African 'mining champion', but he alluded to a...
Mining engineers ill-suited to budgets as firms urged to be savvy
AS a price taker, South Africa’s mining sector is a victim of declining commodity prices, but it’s also generally acknowledged that it’s responsible for...
Froneman delivers unflinching view of SA mining legacy, calls for rapprochement
SOUTH Africa's mining industry must acknowledge past deeds of inhumanity and immorality before it could shape a future in which it overcame the hostile...
Why it’s so hard to mine in SA’s North West province
LONMIN warned shareholders that whilst the second half of its financial year was seasonally better than the first – with normally less disruptions –...
SA’s mining bosses defend multi-million rand pay cheques
AN audience poll at the Joburg Indaba conference earlier this month found that 53.4% of those who attended – around several hundred – thought...