Power procurement is a project risk miners dare not get wrong
THE history of the South African mining and energy industries has been tightly intertwined for more than a century and both owe their very...
SA gold industry enters final chapter
Two of South African gold industry's flag bearers, AngloGold Ashanti and Gold Fields, are each trying to eke out the best of what's left of thinning economic reserves.
Carroll recounts 2008 clash with Havenstein
Cynthia Carroll, Anglo American CEO, recalls how she suddenly decided to shut Amplats's unsafe mining shafts, an event that will be the hallmark of her leadership.
Shanduka cannot be serious
Why would Shanduka Resources want to invest R1.1bn in a mothballed, high-cost platinum mine that three mining groups have previously failed to make a go of?
Jinchuan is Bushveld’s new kingmaker
The deciding factor in who-gets-what in the Western Bushveld may no longer lie in some compromise between Impala and Amplats.
Transnet’s demand for more BEE proves Government doesn’t “get it” …...
ACCORDING to Dante's Inferno the Gates of Hell bear an inscription saying "abandon all hope, ye who enter here" and, after attending the Joburg...
Gaps in Sasol review
Should the petrochemical group be examining the anti-competitive nature of its mining division which participates in the coal export cartel, asks David McKay.
Labour tensions rise as SA mining takes job cuts through 23,000
THERE'S been a rise in tensions among South Africa's mining unions, and its labour in general, this month following volatility at the Kimberley mines...
Platinum — a hotbed of unrest
The reason why violent uprising is a recurring event in the platinum sector has its roots in the departure of the NUM's Archie Palane, writes Jan de Lange.
Getting unions on mining company boards is the best way to...
AT last year’s Mining Charter III negotiations, trade unions campaigned for employee representation on company boards. A clause making provision for such representation was...