Ghana wins back investors as $500m pledged to gold sector
MARK Bristow is unlikely to return to Obuasi, the Ghanaian gold mine he has twice stalked in the past 20 years before declining to...
Kumba de-risked as transfers Thabazimbi to ArcelorMittal SA
KUMBA Iron Ore continued its rehabilitation, quite possibly in preparation for its demerger, announcing today its 76%-owned subsidiary, Sishen Iron Ore Company (SIOC), had...
Harmony confident 400,000 oz/y growth within its capability
HARMONY Gold was confident it could add about 400,000 ounces in new annual production through corporate action with one potential transaction being actively pursued.
"We...
New technology tipped to save 200,000 SA mining jobs by 2025
INVESTING in technology that extended reserve and resource life could save some 200,000 jobs that might be lost by 2025 in South Africa's mining...
Mining Charter’s day in High Court snared by technicalities
SOUTH Africa’s High Court has reserved judgement on an application by mining lawyer Hulme Scholes to have the country’s Mining Charter declared invalid, but...
Rigid, reductive, restrictive BEE must end, says Exxaro’s Mgojo
EXXARO Resources CEO, Mxolisi Mgojo, has called for a different approach to black economic empowerment (BEE) in which a more flexible measure of assessing...
Eskom discombobulates ‘release’ of R20m Denton report
THE controversy over the Dentons report on the state of Eskom has, if anything, intensified after today’s media conference at the utility’s Megawatt Park...
Sibanye says up to 300koz of RPM platinum output “at risk”
BETWEEN 200,000 to 300,000 ounces a year of platinum production was "at risk" at Sibanye's Rustenburg Platinum Mines (RPM) at the current rand platinum...
Vedanta, Anglo zinc merger “needs to be digested”: Agarwal
VEDANTA executive chairman, Anil Agarwal, hasn't entirely given up the notion of combining his group's Hindustan Zinc with Anglo American which he said today...
Resolute seeking to boost organic growth with M&A
RESOLUTE Mining has a gold production target of 450,000 ounces/year by 2020 by expanding production from existing mines and adding a third, Bibiani, a...