ARM ponders copper, platinum cuts; investment in Kumba
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) intends carrying out further cutbacks and workforce reductions on its copper and platinum operations as depressed commodity prices dropped the...
Amplats to tell unions that 2016 will be another tough year
ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) CEO, Chris Griffith, doesn't expect the lengthy disruption of 2014 when his company sits down to wage negotiations with unions...
WCC’s Miller falls on sword amid fresh takeover attempt
FAILURE to sign a takeover agreement with Sibanye Gold cost Waterberg Coal Company (WCC) CEO, Stephen Miller, dear after it was announced today that...
Molefe, Brown consign ‘coal supply cliff’ to history
THE price of coal had dropped to such an extent last year that South African coal producers preferred to sell it locally than export...
‘Nick did the right thing by demerging Gold Fields’ mines’
BY all accounts Neal Froneman, CEO of Sibanye Gold and Gold Fields CEO, Nick Holland get on. They were colleagues once when Holland was...
Panaf’s Loots delivers mining rebuttal to his sceptics
PAN African Resources CEO, Cobus Loots, delivered the perfect riposte to those critics who doubted an accountant could run a gold mining company.
Scepticism about...
Sibanye opens talks with Resgen as IPP ambitions loom large
SIBANYE Gold has trained its sights on Resource Generation (Resgen), a Sydney- and Johannesburg-listed coal development company, as it seeks a partner to realise...
Exxaro’s De Klerk to take up ArcelorMittal SA post
WIM de Klerk, described last week by former Exxaro CEO, Sipho Nkosi, as one of South Africa's best financial directors, has been appointed CEO...
CoAL puzzled as Rio Tinto presses for Chapudi breach
DAVID Brown, CEO of Coal of Africa (CoAL), said he "didn't understand the logic" of Rio Tinto's claim that his company was in breach...
Sibanye’s Froneman bags R35.7m in share rewards
NEAL Froneman, CEO of Sibanye Gold, has reaped the rewards of a more than 300% improvement in the precious metal firm's share price since...