PTM receives interest from potential Waterberg investors, starts offtake discussions
PLATINUM Group Metals (PTM) was assessing mine financing and metal offtake alternatives for its Waterberg Project in South Africa's Limpopo province after Impala Platinum...
Anglo returns production to 90% capacity, but De Beers’ diamond sales...
ANGLO American achieved 90% production by end-June as it emerged from COVID-19 lockdowns which included relatively stable production from its key copper assets, the...
Lucara agrees rough diamond supply deal with HB Group in bid...
LUCARA Diamond Corporation has agreed to sell about 70% of its rough diamonds from its Karowe mine in Botswana to Antwerp-based manufacturer, HB Group,...
Digitalisation tipped to save SA mining firms R213bn in six years,...
SOUTH Africa’s mining industry could unlock R213bn in economic value in six years by digitalising its processes, according to a study by Accenture, a consulting...
Fighting a common enemy sees SA’s unions and mining firms call...
South Africa's main mining unions have expressed concerns about the sector's reboot in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has also seen...
Botswana’s mining output to offset worst economic effects of COVID-19 lockdown
BOTSWANA'S economy would shrink as much as first feared this year owing to better-than-expected mining output and a shorter lockdown, said Reuters which cited...
DRC gives mining firms one month’s notice to end mine site...
MINING firms operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been given a month to stop confining workers on site away from their...
SA to fail COVID-19’s ‘great reset’ unless Ramaphosa can force through...
Many in the world are talking of "the great reset", which it is hoped will see the emergence of a fairer world, a greener...
SA mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, tests positive for COVID-19 disease
SOUTH African mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, and his wife Nolwandle Mantashe have tested positive for COVID-19, said EyeWitness News (EWN).
The couple are in isolation...
SA mining production down 29.8% in May, but rate of decline...
THE rate of decline in South African mining production slowed in May compared to April as lockdown measures aimed at containing the spread of...