Tongon delivers for Randgold Resources
West African gold producer Randgold Resources is staying on track to hit its 2011 production forecasts, as new flagship mine Tongon continues to ramp-up successfully.
Rio Tinto misses target, expands buyback
Global miner Rio Tinto has reported a 35% jump in first-half profit, but missed market expectations.
Cosatu: nationalisation is a given
Nationalisation is going to happen; it is just the manner in which it will be implemented that needs to be decided, says the Congress of SA Trade Unions.
AngloGold Ashanti reports record earnings
AngloGold Ashanti cracked it in the June quarter, making record earnings from the rising gold price underpinned by good cost control.
SA not geared for resources run, says Sanlam
Mining will add more than an additional R50bn to SA’s GDP by 2015 if infrastructure bottlenecks are cleared and market share is maintained, says an investment house.
Gold miners return to hedging
For just the second time in five years, global gold miners have returned to net hedging.
Gold miners jump on risk aversion
JSE-listed gold mining stocks have surged in early trade as investors take shelter from the deteriorating global economic outlook and Europe's worsening debt crisis.
First Uranium to meet key test, despite outage
First Uranium says the week-long outage of operations at Mine Waste Solutions will not affect the outcome of the Gold Wheaton completion test.
Impala in fresh wage talks
The National Union of Mineworkers plans talks with negotiators at Impala Platinum to head off a strike over wages that may impact global prices of the precious metal.
Emerging world buys gold as West wobbles
Central banks of emerging market countries have added more than $10bn of gold to their reserves this year, in a sign of waning faith in the West's benchmark bonds and currencies.