Predatory Mining Charter draft a major negative for junior miners
South African mining companies say that the new iteration of the Mining Charter will have a greater dilutory impact on capital providers’ returns than...
Drop in African junior mining activity concerns Master Drilling CEO
Junior mining and exploration activity in Africa had dropped off materially over the past five years and that development had negative medium and long-term...
Mantashe, the Mining Charter, and the power of balance: Part 2
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Mantashe’s Mining Charter redraft, published June 15, is not without its problems. Far from it.
While the draft charter was “…...
Mantashe, the Mining Charter, and the power of balance: Part 1
One commentator described South African mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, as "a brawler" on news of his appointment in February. While that may be, what’s...
MC Mining’s Makhado project at centre of Limpopo land bust-up
The farms belonging to Akkerland Boerdery - the Limpopo game farm at the centre of the confrontation over “land expropriation without compensation” - are...
Northam Platinum holds its ground despite “difficult market conditions”
Northam Platinum shares rose more than 2% in early trading on the JSE on Monday following publication of a trading statement predicting maintained normalised...
Glencore’s Congo handbrake proves a poser for investors
Glencore is in the pound seats when it comes to supplying cobalt to the electric battery market and all the other transistor-powered tools of...
Harmony least attractive of SA gold majors despite improvements – JP...
THE good news for Harmony shareholders following this week’s results for the year to end-June is that JP Morgan Cazenove reckons the group has...
Reluctant boss, Venkat, was AngloGold’s change agent provocateur
For a person with an avowed dislike for change, it’s astonishing how much of it Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan (Venkat) has brought about at AngloGold Ashanti,...
Seabed mining the next frontier as DeepGreen trawls Pacific for copper
DeepGreen Metals, which plans to extract copper, cobalt, zinc and manganese from the seabed in the Pacific Ocean, says it is making steady progress...