Implats sounds warning on platinum supply crunch
Impala Platinum CEO Terence Goodlace has backed up the prediction made last week by Northam Platinum (Northam) CEO Paul Dunne that the platinum market...
Cadiz and Peter Skeat working on Blyvoor resurrection
Cape Town financial institution Cadiz Corporate Solutions is spearheading the raising of US$70m to start two mining projects – one surface and one underground...
Numbers suggest AngloGold’s future is not in South Africa
THE strategy behind the proposed demerger of AngloGold Ashanti’s South African gold mines was to give special focus to the ageing mines as well...
DRDGold pays out to the hilt
DRDGold CEO Niel Pretorius has delivered on the promise made in February that the dump retreatment company would be an “aggressive” dividend payer with...
Eskom slugs it out with National Treasury
The confrontation between Eskom and the National Treasury over coal contracts with Tegeta – a company controlled by the Gupta family – intensified today...
Grindrod makes Richards Bay coal breakthrough
Freight services and shipping group Grindrod has made a critical breakthrough for its fledgling RBT (Navitrade) coal export terminal at Richards Bay by negotiating...
Northam Platinum reckons the metal will boom again
South Africa’s mines will produce perhaps 4 million ounces (moz) of platinum in total this year compared with a peak output of 5.5m oz...
ANC defies Zuma on constitutionality of MPRDA
THE African National Congress (ANC) was going against president Jacob Zuma’s reservations about the constitutionality of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment (MPRDA)...
South32 pays maiden dividend as sees out market crisis cash flush
CREATED in the teeth of the commodity price meltdown, South32 offered a glimmer of its future potential paying a maiden 1 US cent a...
Sibanye to weigh platinum mines as safety stoppages hit viability
SIBANYE Gold said it was studying the viability of operations held in its newly acquired Aquarius Platinum following the issuance of safety-related stoppages, the...