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...
SA diamond rush called off after fortune-seekers disappointed by finding quartz
MINING hopefuls were disappointed to find that the diamonds they had been digging for in KwaZulu-Natal's KwaHlathi were in fact quartz of little economic value.
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Rainbow Rare Earths pushes ahead with “rapid development” of Phalaborwa project
LONDON-listed Rainbow Rare Earths (Rainbow) - which is looking to produce rare earth metals from waste gypsum tailings dumps near Phalaborwa - has published...
A smelting and refining agreement is a critical piece of PTM’s...
PLATINUM Group Metals (PTM) CEO, Mike Jones, doesn’t lack for optimism. You don’t get to build companies or mines in the way he has...
Kibo quits coal to pursue alternative energy projects after SA opens...
KIBO Energy - which is developing three thermal coal projects in Mozambique, Botswana and Tanzania - has changed its overall strategy and will get...
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,...
Eskom gains Duvha infrastructure but it’s questionable whether it has coal...
SERITI Resources cleverly wove a narrative following the conclusion of a coal sales agreement (CSA) with Eskom in which it said the South African...
Afritin looks to major expansion at Namibian mine
AIM-listed Afritin - which operates the Uis mine in Namibia - beat its quarterly production for the three months to end-May and has started...
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...
Gold Fields signs 6.5% wage lift with NUM, UASA for South...
GOLD Fields has agreed a three-year wage pact with employee unions at its South Deep mine west of Johannesburg, the company said today.
The gold...