Govt, industry “failed magnificently” to promote mining’s social benefit
IT was about time the extended talkshop about improving the relationship between government, mining companies, and communities was replaced with action and a new, creative...
Zimbabwe steadfast on platinum sector local ownership law
ZIMBABWE will not lift the 51% local ownership requirement - known as indigenization - for the country’s platinum mines, according to the country's newly...
Lucapa talks up Angola despite Endiama’s tight grip on control
AUSTRALIAN-listed junior, Lucapa Diamond Company, talked up diamond mining prospects in Angola on the back of the success of its Lulo alluvial diamond mine...
Accept it’s hard to mine here, or move on – DRDGold’s...
DRDGOLD CEO, Niël Pretorius, has urged South African mining companies to either accept the unique challenges of operating in South Africa, or sell up...
Bristow confident Kabila will heed plea on DRC mining code reform
RANDGOLD Resources CEO, Mark Bristow, has met personally with Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as part of the...
Laconic Zwane embodies dereliction of Mining Charter
SOUTH Africa mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, cut an inscrutable figure on Monday when quizzed about the Chamber of Mines' earlier attack on his leadership...
Anglo sees “no danger” of returning to exuberance of the past
ANGLO American said there was "no danger" of committing the over-exuberance of the previous commodity cycle where it - and its peer group -...
Blackrock’s Hambro warns ‘tourist investors’ will return mining to bad old...
A STRONG plea for mining groups to be disciplined in their investment decisions over new projects so that recovering commodity prices would not be...
DRDGold’s Pretorius to win support for Sibanye deal with cash bait
DRDGOLD CEO, Niël Pretorius, will hope to persuade the firm's shareholders that the company can generate enough cash to significantly offset the R2bn capital...
SA mining talking to “certain ANC leaders” over Charter reform
A LITTLE over an hour before mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, was expected to make his keynote address at the Mining Indaba, a conference in...