Defiant Baxter warns Govt miners will not take charter “lying down”
SOUTH Africa's mining industry faces additional levies and taxes of between an estimated R2bn to R3bn a year whilst R2bn already contributed by it...
Exxaro upbeat on 2017 as coal export price leaps 41% in...
EXXARO Resources delivered an upbeat message regarding its 2017 prospects on the back of a higher coal, mineral sands and iron ore prices, but...
Exxaro BEE to fall to 30% after unwind, and R3.04bn repurchase
EXXARO Resources has unveiled a new black economic empowerment (BEE) scheme in which its existing 50.19% BEE structure is to be unwound and replaced...
Platinum prospects diminish as 2016 deficit narrows: WPIC
THE forecast deficit in the platinum sector would shrink this year but would nonetheless continue into 2017 - a sixth consecutive annual deficit, said...
“Whoever builds first on Yamarna, controls it”: Gold Road’s Murray
GOLD Fields’ $270m (R3.6bn) investment in the Gruyere gold project, a venture in western Australia, takes total spending on new production over the next...
Blyvoor Gold to get “big green button push” in 2017
BLYVOORUITZICHT Gold (Blyvoor Gold) remains on track for the "big green button push" in May next year, according to chairman Peter Skeat who is...
Gold Fields cannily leaves door open for $1bn Kirkland return
GOLD Fields cannily left the door open for the takeover of Kirkland Lake saying it remained interested in relaunching the transaction "... in the...
Randgold inks Cote d’Ivoire exploration JV with Newcrest
RANDGOLD Resources and Newcrest Mining are to jointly explore for gold in "an areas of interest" in Côte d’Ivoire, the UK-based gold exploration and...
Demerger would circumvent Anglo’s SA coal sale complexities
SHARES in Anglo American have charged up an astonishing 250% since January assisted by the surprising recovery in metal prices and improved volumes in...
CoM concerned about governance of new tax collection body
THE Chamber of Mines has laid into a Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) proposal in the newly redrafted mining charter that seeks to impose...