Mining Yearbook 2015

Spotlight on African Minerals, Zanaga

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Two UK-listed iron ore development and mining companies, African Minerals and Zanaga Iron Ore disclose some of the year's biggest challenges and successes.

Tshipi mine breaks into SA’s major league

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Tshipi e Ntle Manganese Mining, in which Pallinghurst Resources has a stake, has broken into the top four manganese producers with its debut Tshipi Borwa mine.

China’s favourite African country

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In a spectacularly ironic nod to the colonisers old and new, you can choose to be directed in either English and Chinese at Zimbabwe's Harare airport.

Bullies in the playground

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The business climate in Zimbabwe has been described as crazy, confused and unpredictable. Yet somehow mining firms that stay there seem to make it work.

Juniors make hay in Witbank coalfields

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Keaton Energy and Universal Coal show that while the Witbank coalfields may be drawing to a close, it offers excellent opportunities to smaller, fleet-footed companies.

SA miners may be stung by BEE

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SA's mining sector faces the most acid of compliance tests later this year when it submits its BEE report card. Yet this is far from the end of the matter.

Kalagadi cries foul on loan terms

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Interest on an IDC loan has heaped pressure on Kalagadi Manganese, ironically the poster-child of the SA government's beneficiation ideal.

‘We are a new Grootegeluk,” says WCC’s Miller

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Waterberg Coal Company has more export thermal coal than any other firm in South Africa, according to its CEO Stephen Miller.

In front of the wave

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Brian Gilbertson and Arne Frandsen say seven years' hard work is not yet reflected in the share price of Pallinghurst Resources. But they are in front of the wave.

More equal than others

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Employee share ownership schemes have become a preferred method of black economic empowerment in SA, but the taste of success is not as sweet for some as it is for others.