SA has three months to avoid credit downgrade
South Africa would have to deliver on national budget promises to cut spending and raise taxes in order to avoid a credit downgrade.
DiamondCorp posts loss, Lace on time
DiamondCorp posted a higher loss in 2014 despite reining in administrative costs, but added that underground mining from Lace in Lesotho was on schedule.
Froneman is Mines & Money CEO of 2015
Sibanye Gold CEO, Neal Froneman, has been voted CEO of the year by Mines and Money, an annual UK conference and exhibition.
“Eskom let us down very badly”: Motsepe
African Rainbow Minerals executive chairman, Patrice Motsepe, let rip at Eskom saying the power utility had let South African down "very badly".
Former Lonmin boss calls for mechanisation
Brad Mills, the former CEO of Lonmin, said South Africa's platinum sector should have followed a long-term strategy of investing in mechanisation.
Safety stoppages cost SA mining R13.6bn
South Africa's mining industry lost an estimated R13.6bn in revenue since 2012 owing to safety stoppages.
Petra lifts output despite SA strikes
UK-listed Petra Diamonds lifted September quarter carat production despite being hit by strikes at three of its four South African mines.
Impala Platinum beefs up board
Bernard Swanepoel, the non-executive chairman of Village Main Reef, is one of three new independent, non-executive appointments to the board of Impala Platinum.
Amara considers selling Baomahun
Amara Mining would consider finding a partner or selling its Baomanun project in Sierra Leone in order to finance its lower cost Yaoure project in Ivory Coast.
Better for Amplats to suffer strike
It was better for Anglo American Platinum that it suffer the effects of a strike than to bow to union demands to reconsider restructuring its operations, an analyst said.