THE reaction at the Junior Mining Indaba being held in Johannesburg to proposed amendments to the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) is that another government legislation ...

MENAR intends to invest $100m in a refit of Metalloys, the Gauteng-based manganese smelting facilities the privately-owned company bought from South32 last week. News24 cited Vuslat Bayoğlu, MD of ...

SOUTH African asset manager Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has signed an agreement to cooperate with Dubai’s International Resources Holding (IRH) aimed at breathing life into underperforming ...

PLATINUM group metals miner Impala Platinum (Implats) faced a range of challenges in the March quarter which hindered saleable production, ranging from heavy rainfall at mines to downtime at smelters ...

SOUTH32 said on Thursday it had sold its Metalloys facility in South Africa’s Gauteng province to Menar Group, a privately-held coal and manganese mining firm. The Australian group said it expected to ...

CALDEONIA Mining on Tuesday approved construction of the 200,000 ounce per year Bilboes gold mine – a $484m project the company said would help restore Zimbabwe’s reputation as “a major gold mining ...

Mpumi Zikalala, CEO of Kumba Iron Ore. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images KUMBA Iron Ore CEO Mpumi Zikalala on Tuesday said there were signs of a “stabilisation” in the performance ...

SOUTH African mines minister Gwede Mantashe rejected a business proposal offering the United States access to Africa’s critical minerals, citing concerns that Sibanye Stillwater was advancing its own ...

SHARES in DRA Global registered a fresh low this week with the mining engineering company now just 51% its value since listing a year ago. The underperformance is a consequence of a botched ...

RECENT comments from Burkina Faso Prime Minister Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo that the government plans to expand control over the country’s resources were no surprise but were unlikely to have a ...

ONE of the lesser appreciated benefits of the demerger of Valterra Platinum, formerly known as Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), from Anglo American in May is not having to field questions any more ...

MINERALS Council South Africa has warned wage increases are outpacing productivity improvements, attributing the disparity to overly strong union influence, according to a report by Business Times.