UK portfolio manager tells Menell and Trahar to rein in talk...
PORTFOLIO manager George Cheveley urged market temperance last week following claims by two members from prominent South African mining families there were chronic shortages...
US slaps sanctions on four Wagner-linked mining firms operating in Africa
THE United States imposed sanctions on several gold mining companies operating in the Central African Republic (CAR) saying they were funding illicit activities by...
Ivanhoe’s Friedland talks up new Limpopo resource saying it will dwarf...
IVANHOE Mines executive co-chairman Robert Friedland doubled down on comments he made last year about mineralisation adjacent to the firm's Platreef project in South...
SA’s junior mining sector has become a frightening pantomime
WHEN minerals lawyer Hulme Scholes took the stage at a junior mining conference earlier this month, nobody could have guessed what would happen next....
JSE flags fresh hope National Treasury will reconsider junior mining tax...
SOUTH Africa's National Treasury may look favourably on new proposals to introduce tax incentives in return for investment in the country's minerals exploration sector.
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Afrimat returns to construction materials roots with $6m Lafarge deal
AFRIMAT returned to its industrial roots announcing today an agreement to buy cement maker Lafarge South Africa for $6m.
Lafarge, which is currently owned by...
Anglo signs cooperation with China’s Jiangxi to improve provenance
ANGLO American and China's Jiangxi Copper Company today agreed to cooperate on improving the way copper is mined, processed and marketed.
Anglo said a memorandum...
Afrimat deal will add ‘little bit of diversification”, says CEO
AFRIMAT was working on a transaction aimed at "strengthening the business with a little bit of diversification added to it", said the firm's CEO...
Lack of governance on Transnet board “disturbs” top SA asset manager
ONE of South Africa's biggest institutional investors in the bond market FutureGrowth expressed its concern at poor governance at Transnet, the struggling state-owned rail...
Glencore to sell Viterra stake for $4.1bn after agribusiness agrees merger...
GLENCORE said today Viterra would merge with US firm Bunge Ltd, a transaction that would see Glencore receive $4.1bn for its 49.99% stake in...