Getting unions on mining company boards is the best way to...
AT last year’s Mining Charter III negotiations, trade unions campaigned for employee representation on company boards. A clause making provision for such representation was...
PIC may have given Implats an open invitation to bid higher...
IS the battle for control of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) heading for a draw? That's one interpretation given that the firm's largest single shareholder,...
SA coal mining investment set to become a very private affair
A NEW coal mine has been permitted in Cumbria, England - the country's first in 30 years. In South Africa, however, building a new...
SA’s latest PGM mine doesn’t inspire confidence
SOUTH Africa's platinum group metals sector may be battening down the hatches while prices languish but new production is coming on stream nonetheless. Canada's...
State Capture Inquiry dishes up Optimum Coal re-run, in all its...
LISTENING to former head of Glencore's South African coal operations, Clinton Ephron, give testimony before the State Capture Inquiry on February 27 felt like...
A smelting and refining agreement is a critical piece of PTM’s...
PLATINUM Group Metals (PTM) CEO, Mike Jones, doesn’t lack for optimism. You don’t get to build companies or mines in the way he has...
Eskom’s new boss Andre de Ruyter takes stage to soundtrack of...
ESKOM CEO Andre de Ruyter goes into his first 'state of the system' briefing tomorrow (January 31) hardly needing to utter a word about...
Why can’t SA take leaf out of Zambia’s reform book?
ZAMBIA is on the up. You can see it when you drive from the Kenneth Kaunda Airport, a stark and overpriced reminder of the...
Answer to Harmony Gold’s growth ambitions may still be best found...
HARMONY Gold’s declaration that it would re-tool its African growth strategy seems interestingly timed as executives throughout the industry have adopted a position of...
Risky uranium too rich a bet, even for Sibanye-Stillwater
URANIUM is not a mineral Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman wants to take on again, not single-handedly at least; not even given its recent price...