Palladium takes off on fears of US sanctions against Norilsk Nickel
The palladium price has jumped during the past week over the possibility that the world’s top producer - MMC Norilsk Nickel ...
Venkat quits AngloGold Ashanti to become CEO of Vedanta
AngloGold Ashanti CEO Srinivasan “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan has resigned and will leave the group at the end of August to become CEO of diversified...
MPRD Amendment bill to rear its troublesome head again
THE hullabaloo created by the Mining Charter in the last month has distracted attention from the equally important issue of the Minerals & Petroleum...
Kore Potash opens door on new kind of strategic commodity
FOOD security is an increasingly interesting prospect for investors. According to Ian Harebottle, CEO of Kropz, farmers are expected to produce more food over...
Vedanta boss Agarwal commits to Zambia despite shocks, rows
VEDANTA chairman, Anil Agarwal, was at his contrarion best today telling an investment forum in Zambia during a two-day visit that the southern African country...
SA mining cannot keep relying on courts to regulate industry
THE recent judgment in the court case between the Chamber of Mines and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) over the once-empowered, always-empowered principle...
Platinum miners’ optimism about the hole they’re in is misplaced
YOU have to be an optimist to be a miner and the most diehard optimists in the business right now are those in platinum...
Implats heartened, but needs evidence Zimbabwe is changing
EMMERSON Mnangagwa, who took over from Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s president in November, is making encouraging statements to woo mining investors back. But after...
Gold stolen at Harmony Gold’s Kalgold mine in R4m heist
HARMONY Gold confirmed an ambush of employees at its Kalgold mine in South Africa's North West province resulted in the theft of about eight...
Third of SA platinum in “harvest mode” as industry crisis deepens
IT would be difficult for South Africa to recover the ground it had lost in platinum market share because of the high cost base...