Lonmin peace more unlikely than ever
The warring parties at Lonmin are no closer to any sort of peace agreement as 2,000
workers warn management to close all mines or run the risk of being killed.
How will Amplats play its optimisation study?
A large portion of the 500,000 oz platinum surplus could have been removed from the market amid labour unrest, but is this enough to change or delay the eagerly anticipated Amplats restructure?
Marikana, Mangaung and SA’s mining industry
If the government exacerbates the problems facing SA’s mining industry by
adopting ill-considered regulatory interventions, we are likely to see more
Marikana conflicts.
SA’s labour dispensation changed forever
The announcement that platinum miners are also seeking central bargaining
structures is much more far-reaching than what it seems at face value.
Tensions high as industry meets over Lonmin
SA’s mining industry has formally begun with damage control following a week
during which countless replays of dying mineworkers had the country making
news for all the wrong reasons.
‘Winner takes all’ is tinder to Amcu, the NUM
The way unions are organised at mines is not the immediate cause of the tragedy at Lonmin's Marikana mine, but distributing representation may take the fire out of tensions.
NUM no innocent victim in Lonmin violence
There seems to be a great desire among some established players in the mining
industry, none more so than the National Union of Mineworkers, to get rid of
the new trouble-stirring trade union Amcu.
De Beers US strategy focuses on clients
Sightholders are expected to make the trip to Botswana 10 times a year but De
Beers DTC is planning fresh visits of its own, for the first time.
CoAL slide underpins logic of Exxaro takeover
Thermal coal prices have dealt Coal of Africa a difficult card at a time when it’s
mid-stride between strategies, raising the prospect that it needs the balance
sheet of a major investor.
SA platinum sweats amid cash-flow crunch
Amplats could be cash-flow negative to the tune of R4.5bn by year-end, while
Aquarius has just over a year of cash; a sure sign of the troubles the once cash-
flush industry is now in.