Africa’s ‘miner bashing’ plays to the popular heart
COMMENTING on a decision by the Tanzanian government to blockade gold-bearing concentrate produced from Acacia Mining’s Bulyanhulu and Buzwagi mines earlier this year, Investec...
MPRDA heading for same legal wrangling as Mining Charter
LEGAL experts have warned that amendments to the Minerals & Petroleum Resources Development Act – crucial for regulatory certainty in South Africa’s mining industry...
Zero sum game: Why the Mining Charter redraft has no winners
The third revision of the Mining Charter gazetted on June 15 sent shock waves through South Africa’s mining industry. The onerous set of new...
Slowing Styldrift saved RBPlat R7.5bn over five years
STEVE Phiri, CEO of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) tells of an irony following the firm’s decision in August last year to slow development of...
Market has bottomed, but road ahead will be bumpy
ONE of the first senior voices to dare suggest the seemingly interminable slump in the minerals and metals markets was nearing an end was...
Randgold’s Bristow to convince market of dividend strategy
MARK Bristow is something of the arch iconoclast. He thinks, for instance, that the gold industry establishment is "a club", and he derives a...
Dividends on agenda despite Harmony’s debt, capital ‘priorities’
ONE of the painful lessons learned by the mining sector since the collapse of the commodity market has been the importance of using cash...
SA’s NEMA brings judgement down on trusts
AMBIGUOUS mining policies and laws left a legacy of thousands of derelict mines and latent consequences, such as acid mine drainage that is costing...
Light at the end of the tunnel for silicosis victims
IT has been a difficult year for the mining industry insofar as health and safety has been concerned, but the tide is turning for...
Decision time as Exxaro Resources gears up for new era
"UNFORTUNATELY, you are a week too early," said Mxolisi Mgojo, CEO of Exxaro Resources. That’s his response to a question about whether the group...