Northam Pt unlikely to mine until 2014
As the mourning period for the late Nelson Mandela morphs into year-end holidays, there's a real risk Northam could lose up to R700m in revenue.
Blame managers for gold share slump
Managers have forgotten the art of hands-on leadership which is one of the reasons gold shares have massively under-performed the gold price.
Motlanthe deal ignored in Northam deadlock
Kgalema Motlanthe's framework agreement has been forgotten in the midst of an arm-wrestle between Northam Platinum and the National Union of Mineworkers.
AMCU, NUM enmity worsens in ‘platinum war’
The rivalry between AMCU and the NUM is worsening in such a way that not even government leaders, warning of lasting economic damage, can talk them round to reason.
Glencore & Glasenberg: wired to trade
Listing in Johannesburg creates additional demand for the stock, but the company is set up to succeed in places like Africa anyway.
Northam caught in NUM, AMCU cross-fire
Wage disputes threaten three-quarters of South Africa's platinum production with perhaps the strike at Northam the spark that will set national strikes into motion.
SA govt hell-bent on control of the coal
Of all the minerals the state desires, it's coal that it deems most strategic and most important, hence the changes to the MPRDA and the pressure on exporters.
Quo vadis Amplats, Griffith & Cutifani’s Anglo?
It's as if the South African government had nationalised the country's mines after all given the way Anglo American Platinum has bowed to its influence.
PAMDC delivers blow to Shabangu’s invitation
One wonders how Australians view mines minister Susan Shabangu's invitation to feast on South Africa's mineral resources. Dimly, one suspects.
Has Mathunjwa misjudged the power of money?
He rails against capitalism, but surely AMCU's Joseph Mathunjwa knows that in the end money talks, both for Amplats shareholders and for his own members?