PTM to miss mid-2015 platinum sale target
The good news is that Platinum Group Metals has been thrown a lifeline by a syndicate of banks that will attempt to raise $195m for the WBJV Project 1.
Harmony restores that profitable feeling
Yet the gold miner operates under wafer-thin margins which has put the onus on more cost-cutting and getting stalwart mines to perform to their best.
Sibanye, Harmony swap Free State gold
Sibanye Gold and Harmony Gold made good on long-standing proposals to swap gold resources in the Free State in a parcel of non-cash deals.
Randgold relying on cash to fund growth
Mark Bristow, CEO of Randgold Resources, said the firm would not use its $200m facility as cashflows were sufficient to fund growth if gold stayed above $1,000/oz.
Northam wage offer rebuffed by NUM
Northam Platinum could barely mask its exasperation after having a third upgraded wage offer to NUM rejected by the union.
AMSA books R1.8bn Thabazimbi write-down
A condition of its iron ore pricing agreement with Kumba Iron Ore is that ArcelorMittal SA must write-down the carrying value of Thabazimbi by R1.8bn.
IFM’s Jordaan says tide has turned
Shares in International Ferro Metals have been beaten up over the last two years, but the firm believes it has the basis to support "a turnaround story".
AngloGold’s Venkat conjures recovery
AngloGold Ashanti registered important cash saving advances in the third quarter and higher production capping a positive period in which the share is 30% higher.
Venkat freezes pay, takes no bonus
Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, has responded to the furore about executive pay by freezing his own cash bonus.
Shabangu insists pact close on MPRDA
South Africa's mines minister, Susan Shabangu, says the industry and her government are close to each other in amendments to the MPRDA legislation.