Randgold Resources builds towards another bumper dividend
AFTER pushing up its annual dividend 50% to $1 a share for the year to end-December 2016 Randgold Resources could be in a position...
Acacia CEO quits two weeks after Barrick compact with Tanzania
ACACIA Mining, the Tanzanian gold miner in which Barrick Gold has a 64.9% stake, has been dealt a serious blow after two of its...
BASF may end Lonmin relationship unless human rights tackled
GERMAN chemicals company BASF has threatened to terminate its relationship with Lonmin if the UK-listed platinum group metals (PGM) business fails to tackle community...
Can mining executives ever truly win back the trust of investors?
MINING shares may be back on the screens of investors globally, but they are not viewed with quite the same sense of unbridled enthusiasm...
Sibanye-Stillwater confirms 7,000 employees cut at Cooke
SIBANYE-Stillwater said it had completed a restructuring process at its Cooke gold and uranium shafts on the West Rand cutting a total of 6,976...
NUM to stage mass meeting at Cooke as Sibanye readies axe
SOUTH Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is to hold a mass meeting at Sibanye-Stillwater's Cooke shafts, west of Johannesburg, on November 1 after the...
GEM sticks to diamond sales guidance despite hitch at Letšeng
GEM Diamonds has made an adjustment to its full-year ore treatment forecast after locating a crack in its plant equipment at its Letšeng mine, the...
Implats to take R1.25bn refined metal hit after furnace kept offline
IMPALA Platinum (Implats) reduced its gross refined platinum production target to between 1.51 to 1.56 million ounces for its 2018 financial year following a...
South32 defends buy-back, denies plan is to boost executive pay
THE mining cycle may have well and truly turned to the positive again, but one company declining to dive into corporate activity in favour of...
Orion Minerals to raise $5.5m for Prieska zinc-copper project
ORION Minerals is to raise $5.5m (R77.5m) to pay for further drilling at its zinc and copper prospect in South Africa's Northern Cape province.
Exploration...