Zambia’s largets union agrees 12% hike
A wage agreement with the Mineworkers Union of Zambia, the country's largest, would set the tone for other wage deals.
Chilean survivor story nears climax
Chilean rescuers has reinforced an escape shaft to hoist 33 miners to freedom two months after they were trapped deep underground in a cave-in, as a stunning survival story that gripped the world nears its climax.
Commission to review gold mining tax
A commission would review a dispensation offered to the country's gold industry that allows it to pay less tax when margins decline.
Kinross preparing $1.6bn Tasiast expansion
North American gold counter Kinross Gold has retained BNP Paribas to help it raise $1.6bn for the expansion of its Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania.
SA police to block abandoned gold shafts
South African police are to block the entrance to abandoned shafts at Durban Deep mine west of Johannesburg in an effort to halt illegal mining
RBPlat Sep Q output down 5%
Royal Bafokeng Platinum reported a 5% fall in September quarter platinum group metal production owing to a planned maintenance shutdown.
Ivory Coast opposition focuses on mining
Ivory Coast opposition candidate Henri Konan Bedie has promised to diversify the cocoa-dependent economy into commodities such as oil and gold as he rallied thousands of supporters just days before a presidential vote.
PGMS miners facing R24bn finance challenge
Platinum miners may have to tap the market for R24bn in finance by the end of next year unless prices for the metal improved.
Zwane advisor in business with Guptas
The extent of business links between critical departments in South African president Jacob Zuma's administration and the Gupta family deepened.
Committee urges development steel pricing
SA's parliament heard from the trade and industry committee that a failure to implement developmental pricing on steel would hold back industrial development.