Volatile times for gold shares
Just when you thought it was safe to get back into SA gold shares, they took a hit along with the dollar gold price.
Green lobby responds to Liefferink report
The series of articles about the threat which farmers and environmental groups hold for Mine Waste Solutions’ operations, elicited this reaction from the FSE:
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?
Little room left for CRG turnaround
Last week's cancellation of the Central Rand Gold mining right brings to an end one of the gold mining sector’s more spectacular failures.
Anglo weighed Anglo Pt unbundling
In the belief structural and country issues might be holding it back, Anglo American seriously gave thought to handing shares in its platinum company to investors.
Tronox investors resented Exxaro merger
Tronox shares fell through the floor after Exxaro unveiled its merger bid as investors thought a more lucrative cash bid would be deterred.
Realism surfaces at wage talks
The year’s round of wage negotiations is almost done, and it seems as if it went down much better this time than last year.
Denials as miners are doing a runner
Rio Tinto now finds itself in the same boat as De Beers in that both have been steadily selling off SA assets while maintaining all along they are not divesting from the country.
SA gold shares near ‘inflection point’
What do UBS, James Turk and Mark Cutifani have in common? A belief that South African gold shares will be seized upon by value investors.
Getting nervous over Glencore
Analysts are finding it odd that Glencore, which earns a good deal of its profits from trading, would want an asset where it can't actually trade the coal.