Tanzania takes Acacia to brink with billions of dollars in unpaid...
SHARES in UK-listed gold producer, Acacia Mining, were under renewed pressure today after it announced potentially disastrous recommendations by the Tanzanian government based on...
The day Bernard Swanepoel met his comedic match
I DO love a good mining conference and the Junior Indaba is as good as they come thanks in large part to chairman Bernard...
Investors clamour for Sibanye shares as palladium soars
SIBANYE Gold is to rellocate shares in terms of excess applications for its $1bn rights offer which was oversubscribed by nearly five times.
The precious...
Glencore lodges $2.55bn bid for Rio Tinto’s Coal & Allied
FRESH from a proposal to merger with US grains company, Bunge, Glencore has provided further evidence of its growth appetite by bidding $2.55bn for...
Strike, illegal mining sees Sibanye dismiss Cooke employees
SIBANYE Gold said it had dismissed workers at its Cooke gold operations, west of Johannesburg, following several days of unprotected strike action related to...
Sekoko intends to resuscitate scaled down Waterberg project
SEKOKO Resources, an unlisted black-owned mining investment firm, is hopeful it can breathe new life into the Waterberg Coal Project, a thermal coal prospect...
Anglo, Glencore agree to centralised coal wage negotiations
STRIKE activity in South Africa's coal industry has been averted after a number of the country's largest mining firms, including Glencore, Anglo American and...
Sibanye $1bn rights issue could see firm go backwards – Viljoen
THE jury was out on Sibanye Gold's $1bn rights issue the proceeds of which will be used to fund its $2.2bn takeover of US-based...
“I sell hope, not hard fact; I sell mystery, not history”...
SERIAL mining entrepreneur, John Teeling, who has listed a string of companies on London’s AIM market, delivered the lowdown on the mining exploration business...
Activist officials, lack of institutional memory subvert DMR
UNCERTAINTY is baked into the Mining Charter because it allows too much discretion to activist officials which the impending third version of the Charter...