De Beers registers 40% leap in diamond sales as uncut gem...
DE Beers registered diamond sales totalling $467m for its eighth sight - a 40% increase over the confirmed seventh sight sales - in a...
ARM to test technology that could save its beleaguered ferroalloys production...
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is investigating new smelting technology that could enable South Africa’s ferroalloys sector to circumvent swingeing electricity tariff increases.
The development of...
DRC issues six month waiver on copper concentrate export ban
THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has issued a six-month waiver to an export ban on copper concentrate, said Reuters, citing a letter it...
Twiga Minerals pays maiden $250m dividend in line with Barrick’s Tanzania...
TWIGA Minerals Corp., a joint venture between Barrick Gold and the Tanzanian government, has paid a maiden interim cash dividend of $250m, the Canadian...
Shanta Gold progresses diversification scoping $161m Kenya West project
SHANTA Gold’s plans to diversify its production base received a boost today after it announced the results of an early stage scoping study of...
Menar’s R250m East Manganese project permitted ahead of first production
PRIVATELY-owned resources investment company, Menar, said it had been granted a mining right and water use licence for its R250m East Manganese project, a...
SA Govt can take place in national economic recovery with “copy...
A NEW minerals cadastre for South Africa’s exploration and junior mining sector could be a "cut and paste" of other successful examples used globally,...
Tharisa said to flourish as PGM price spike supports push to...
THARISA, a company listed in London and Johannesburg, has gone under radar, according to a UK brokerage which thinks the South African firm’s exposure...
Illegal gold mining, assisted by rangers, on the rise in Zimbabwe...
ILLEGAL gold mining in an ecologically sensitive region of Zimbabwe has spiked and has the cooperation of the people employed to protect the area,...
SA’s ferroalloys industry facing destruction owing to unstinting electricity tariff increases
SOUTH Africa's ferroalloys industry faced "destruction" owing to a sixfold increase in the electricity tariff provided by the country's power utility, Eskom, said BusinessLive.
"We...