Sharp divide separates platinum group metal believers, and sceptical dissenters
AFTER 10 years in the doldrums, South African platinum stocks finally sprang back to life from the end of 2018 in response to increases...
PGM “challenges” do not incentivise production growth – Amplats CEO, Chris...
ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) was not tempted to consider expanding production despite having restructured itself into profitability, a development heavily assisted by the improvement...
Inter-union rivalry at the root of the Marikana Massacre was masked...
IT'S complex.
Ask Ben Magara, the former CEO of Lonmin about the Marikana massacre, in which 44 miners lost their lives in the course of...
Northam’s Kukama shaft at Eland to restart in 2020 financial year
Northam Platinum said on Wednesday that the Kukama shaft at its rhodium-rich Eland mine would restart in the new 2020 financial year, a key...
Magara: ‘Lonmin was a one-trick pony waiting for a price recovery...
CORPORATE deaths are rarely spectacular; not the denouément, in any case. Rather, the lawyers move in and with a swish of the pen life...
Fitting that Lonmin taken out by empire-building Sibanye-Stillwater boss, Neal Froneman
ALTHOUGH Lonmin takes its leave after 20 years of trade, its origins are, in fact, much older, and full of colour.
Founded in 1909 as...
AMCU opening wage demand unlikely to win support of PGM producers
SOUTH African platinum group metal (PGM) producers were unlikely to agree to the R17,000 per month minimum wage asked by the Association of Mineworkers...
Griffith confident Amplats is well prepared for platinum wage negotiations season
THE Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) was planning to lodge "substantial demands" of platinum group metal mining companies, said Bloomberg News citing...
Gold a bit part player for Sibanye-Stillwater for next two years...
A FIVE month strike, the merger with Lonmin, and restructuring means Sibanye-Stillwater will derive only a fraction of pre-tax earnings from gold production this...
Tesla’s Elon Musk floats idea of “getting into mining” to speed...
TESLA founder and CEO, Elon Musk, floated the idea that the electric vehicle manufacturer might go "into the mining business" in order to quicken...