SA may lose coal export industry to Eskom as balance sheet...
WHO will finance South Africa's long-term coal mining sector, assuming the fuel is even needed 15 to 20 years from now?
That's the logical question...
Mantashe hopes history will repeat itself, but Lonmin may collapse first
SOUTH African mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, said the country's platinum sector was where gold companies found themselves between 1999 to 2002. The price of...
Harmony Gold’s Briggs opts for veld over forest
Harmony Gold's enthusiasm for its massive Wafi-Golpu mine in Papua New Guinea has been replaced by a search for margin in safer, more familiar climes.
Aurora: more light than heat?
Aurora Empowerment Systems has burst on to the mining scene, spending R1bn in buying assets. But does the group have a strategy to justify the outlay?
Eskom’s R284bn coal spend is thin end of wedge
Eskom is paying a decent average price for coal in terms of its proposed tariff
application to Nersa, but is it enough to attract capital into the new mines it needs?
Anglo must merge
But a marriage between Anglo American and Xstrata does not seem the appropriate solution, writes Jan de Lange.
Vedanta’s “dialogue” with Zambia needs to herald multi-party crisis talks on...
VEDANTA Resources said it hadn't abandoned hopes of resolving a legal dispute with the Zambian government out of court. Commenting in a statement today, Vedanta...
What really happened at Alliance Mining?
Will shareholders ever get to the bottom of what really has transpired at Alliance Mining, asks Marc Hasenfuss.
Gold One to breathe new life into Grootvlei
Hopes that Gold One International will be the salvation of Grootvlei are a little
wide of the market, but a transaction of a different ilk is still in the offing.
Mining Charter talks to enter last – and most perilous –...
DETAILS of South Africa's new Mining Charter negotiations are starting to emerge, the latest being those disclosed by the country's deputy mines minister, Godfrey...