Lucara looks to exceptional stone tender to revive cash reserves
LUCARA Diamond Corporation paid an increased C$2.5 cents per share (1.82 US cents) dividend for the first quarter and said it was lining up...
SA coal miners in stand-off with unions over decentralised wage talks
DISCUSSIONS regarding how wage talks will be held in South Africa's coal industry remain deadlocked raising the risk that unions might embark on a...
Rockwell kept waiting by High Court in bid to clear name
ROCKWELL Diamonds has been kept waiting for its day in court after the Kimberley High Court ruled on April 26 that there was no...
BHP, Elliott debate suggests investors still wary of management
ONE of the interesting features to emerge from BHP Billiton’s recent run-in with investor activism was the claim that it was better to return...
Snapshot from history shows SA’s golden rise and fall
ACCORDING to the Thomson Reuters GFMS 2016 survey of world gold production, an estimated 187,200 tonnes of gold has been mined through recorded history....
South32 is raking it in as cash balances hit US$1.5 billion
South32’s net cash balance rose by US$645m during the March quarter to hit $1.5bn at the end of March and the group has been...
Pan African Resources gets its ducks in a row at Evander
The Elikhulu tailings retreatment project is the current focus of attention at Pan African Resources’ Evander Mine but crucial for the mine’s medium-term future...
Community protests put Impala Platinum’s Marula mine at risk
Continuing community unrest and protest action in Mpumalanga is threatening the viability of Impala Platinum’s (Implats) Marula mine and the operation is to undergo...
Another shocker for Gold Fields from troubled South Deep
Just two months after Gold Fields unveiled the rebased mining plan and latest turnaround strategy for its South Deep mine, the “serial underperformer” has...
Jan Nelson back in the mining game once more
After quitting London-listed junior miner Xtract Resources last September - and moving to Paternoster on the West Coast to set up a...