Frontier Security founder Erik Prince registers mining subsidiary in DRC
ERIK Prince, the founder of controversial security company, Blackwater, and who said earlier this year he planned to raise $500m to develop mines in...
As SA’s junior mining sector stumbles, here’s six African juniors making...
SOUTH Africa's ability to attract early stage funding for junior and exploration activity has declined in recent years, according to S&P's Global Market Intelligence research...
Tailings reports just the tip of the iceberg as mining’s footprint...
MINING companies globally published details of their tailings depositions on June 7 in compliance with demands issued by the Church of England Pensions Board...
SA mining is facing catastrophe unless it can manage the effects...
ACCORDING to the Minerals Council South Africa, full-time employment in the mining sector has shrunk by 56,366 employees over the past five years, from...
Cash flush mining fails to woo investors who are deterred by...
DIVIDENDS have never been higher and growth capital at some $57bn last year represented the first increase in five years, but the world's mining sector...
Mantashe renews defence of coal, urges investors to weigh CGS’s new...
SOUTH African mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, sought to broaden the debate about the prospects for the country's electricity utility, Eskom, to one regarding 'energy...
Kenmare gives nod to $106m plant move as part of one...
KENMARE Resources has given the long-expected approval to capital spend of some $106m for the relocation of its Wet Concentrator Plant (WCP) B - the...
South Africa’s Transnet wins court approval to stop ports strike
STRIKE action at some of South Africa's ports with potential to disrupt coal exports was narrowly avoided on May 29 after Transnet won a...
Ramaphosa reappoints Gwede Mantashe, but adds energy to mines minister’s portfolio
SOUTH African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, kept a steady hand on key cabinet positions today unveiling a national executive of the country's sixth administration in...
DRC’s Tshisekedi talks anti-corruption as seeks to repair IMF relationship
SIGNS that Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president, Felix Tshisekedi, is interested in reform were in evidence yesterday when he met with the Washington-based...