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...
Little relief for SA miners who say under-siege mining towns a...
PRIESKA is a small town of 20,000 people on the banks of the Orange River in South Africa's Northern Cape. Iscor, the former steelmaker,...
Govt to invite tenders for minerals cadastre next week amid swingeing...
THE South African government would issue a tender for its proposed minerals exploration cadastre before the end of next week and said it would...
Orion, Govt sign watershed MoU to explore wider mineral potential of...
ORION Minerals today announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the South African government in which the parties will pool geological information...