Oh dear, is this an Angloplat own goal?
Anglo Platinum takes the unusual step of barring the media from its annual general meeting, immediately prompting a question of why. Apart from large fee increases for its directors there's nothing immediately obvious.
An important year for Gem’s Elphick
It's an important year for Clifford Elphick, CEO of Gem Diamonds. He has to make his acquisitions and growth plans count for more.
Boost for resource bankers
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has handed mining financiers a major fillip in his first budget speech, writes David McKay.
Big enough is no longer good enough
The move for size in the diversified mining sector is likely to continue but option value is becoming increasingly important.
No sympathy for ArcelorMittal
The steel giant will struggle to find sympathy now that Kumba has stopped supplying it with cheap iron ore, writes Jan de Lange.
Barrick chasing Randgold premium
Barrick Gold is chasing the London investor, that highly captive audience Randgold Resources has commanded for years. And what chance Kumba Iron Ore can successfully lift pricing of iron ore to Arcelor Mittal?
Decoding the Mining Summit
For perhaps the first time since the negotiation of the mining charter in 2002, industry and government are discussing competitiveness and regulatory change in the same sentence.
Chrometco continues to limp on lime
Chrometco still has to show evidence of solid deal-making before it wins the confidence of investors.
Beware of resource stock overshoot
You can't just say it's the stronger rand that has melted some of the resiliance out of South African stocks lately, argues Vic de Klerk.
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?