Eskom ‘too big to fail’, Ramaphosa tells Indaba, setting stage for...
STATE-run utility Eskom, widely cited as the key risk to South Africa's mining industry and the wider economy, was "too big to fail", and...
Amplats to post healthy lift in earnings after 13% gain in...
ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) delivered good news for shareholders today, saying that the year-on-year increase in headline earnings would be higher than guided last...
Zambia describes Barrick meeting over Lumwana as having gone “extraordinarily well”
TALKS between the Zambian government and Barrick Gold regarding the future of the Canadian firm's Lumwana copper/gold mine were said by mines minister, Richard Musukwa...
AngloGold’s Dushnisky talks up $550m plan to breathe new life into...
NEW AngloGold Ashanti CEO, Kelvin Dushnisky, has given a glowing endorsement of the prospects for the group’s Obuasi gold mine currently under development at...
Ghana’s Nana-Akufo Addo says war on illegal mining yields eco-dividends
GHANA'S blitz on illegal mining is yielding environmental dividends, with fish returning to rivers heavily polluted by the practice, the president of the gold producing...
PTM raises $4m in share placement as presses on with study...
PLATINUM Group Metals (PTM) has completed a private placement of shares in which it raised just over $4m - funds it would use to...
Firestone on track for full-year production target despite wobble in January
FIRESTONE Diamonds said an equipment failure would impact tonnes treated at its Liqhobong mine in Lesotho in the third quarter but the company remained...
SA mining policy improved, but insufficiently reformed to attract Anglo expansion...
THE regulatory and policy environment of South African mining was significantly improved, but it was not yet sufficiently reformed to attract expansion capital, said...
Sibanye says children burnt in firebombing as violent gold strike rumbles...
INNOCENT by-standers including children were injured in the violence triggered by the 12-week strike by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) at...
Implats shares surge on strong Rustenburg sales as stock inventory released
SHARES in Impala Platinum (Implats) gained nearly 10% in Johannesburg after the firm published a trading update in which it said interim headline earnings...