Sibanye-Stillwater accredited to dispense Covid-19 vaccines as third wave tears through...
SIBANYE-Stillwater said it hoped to immunise up to 330,000 people drawn from its employee complement, employee families, and "door step" communities against Covid-19 after...
BHP to double exploration spend as ups search for base metals
BHP would double its exploration spending for base metals within five years, the group's chief technical officer, Laura Tyler told Reuters.
Tyler acknowledged the group...
ChromeSA fails to win ear of Competition Commission in controversial export...
SOUTH Africa's chrome ore industry has failed in its attempt to win an exemption from the Competition Commission that would have enabled it to...
China’s efforts to stem commodity price gains in question as boom...
COMMODITY prices may have eased in the past month but it's questionable the extent to which China's efforts - which include releasing minerals from...
Should mining firms buy back shares when a global supply deficit...
TO buy back shares or pay shareholders in cash dividends? That’s one of the happy brain teasers with which companies perenially wrestle. It is, though,...
Lifting self generation threshold to 100MW shows SA Govt is “up...
A SURPRISE decision to increase the threshold for unlicenced embedded power in South Africa to 100MW from 10MW demonstrated the country's government was "up for...
Sandvik predicts migration to electric underground mining vehicles in 10 years
CAPITAL equipment manufacturer, Sandvik, expected to make more electric underground mining units than diesel-powered in about 10 years, said Reuters citing the firm's mining...
Port switch to have “large negative impact on value of” Kropz...
AFRICAN Rainbow Capital Investments (ARC), the JSE-listed investor led by mining magnate, Patrice Motsepe, said in an update that the strong rand and additional...
SA accounts for half of deaths reported by ICMM members in...
MEMBERS of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) reported 44 deaths in 2020 compared to 287 in 2009 when the collapse of...
World’s largest miners set to reward investors as never before as...
THE world's largest mining companies have never been more cash generative, but they are reticent to spend on new projects raising the risk of...