Miners in Zimbabwe told to pay for power using foreign currency
MINING firms in Zimbabwe have been told to pay for electricity using foreign currency, said Bloomberg News citing the southern African country's energy minister,...
Barrick’s Kibali on target for 750,000 oz gold output in 2019
BARRICK Gold said its Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gold mine, Kibali, which it owns in joint venture with AngloGold Ashanti, was on course...
Acacia asked to shut ‘leaky’ North Mara tailings dam as Tanzania...
THE Government of Tanzania (GoT) upped the ante on Acacia Resources, the UK-listed gold miner with which it is locked in a two-year, $190bn tax...
Implats flags dividend resumption after early settlement of $250m convertible bond
IMPALA Platinum (Implats) has taken the gap provided by improved platinum group metal (PGM) pricing to close early some $250m in convertible bonds in...
Barrick, Bristow style: SA’s most successful gold CEO on his first...
At a time when most people would be thinking about winding down, geologist Mark Bristow took Randgold Resources, the company he’d built up over...
Digging for legitimacy: The case for good ESG in mining
ENVIRONMENTAL and social governance (ESG) has, for a long time, been a woolly issue for the mining industry.
Chiefly because there were no hard and fast...
Amplats to take interim earnings up as much 128% on improved...
THE improvement in the rand basket price of platinum group metals (PGM) would help propel Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) to interim headline earnings of...
Glencore’s green rebrand a complex brew for governments, society, and shareholders
Glencore is in the pound seats when it comes to dominating in the metals and minerals the modern world needs, and – according to...
Zimbabwe’s platinum miners wary as black market traders threaten to intensify...
CONDITIONS for mining companies in Zimbabwe have improved materially since the new government headed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power, but there are...
Khulubuse Zuma due back in court to face rap for Aurora...
KHULUBUSE Zuma, nephew of former South African president, Jacob Zuma, is due back in court today on charges of causing environmental damage at Grootvlei,...