Jubilee weighs offer to toll-treat platinum-bearing material
CEO says deal can help with cost of restoring suspended PhokaThaba operation back to production
Mines minister ‘caught in a legislative snare’
Lack of clarity over whether mineral resources minister has declared one of SA’s most important water catchment areas a ‘no-go area’ for miners is causing concern
Guards fire rubber bullets at strikers at chrome mine
Ten miners taken to hospital after security guards fire rubber bullets at stone-throwing workers striking illegally at chrome mine owned by German group Lanxess
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High wage demands by National Union of Mineworkers for workers in coal and gold mines drive rand down at prospect of more industry turmoilBuildmax says all its business units are profitable
Open-cast mining contractor and building materials distributor reports that its profit gained strong traction in the year to February
Eqstra buys back shares to ‘grow shareholder value’
Contract miner and equipment leasing group repurchases 8-million shares in the open market, as it looks to enhance shareholder value
Former Kebble firm ‘unlikely to use assets’
Randgold & Exploration has mineral assets on its books, including platinum and iron ore, but has few hopes of bringing them into production itself
Protech Khuthele returns to profit in full year
Mining services and equipment leasing group, subject of hostile takeover by Eqstra, says market conditions remain unchanged but turnaround is on track
Strike fears as NUM demands 60% increases
Union to seek pay rises of up to 60% from gold and coal producers, raising prospect of fresh strikes as companies battle higher costs and falling prices in an already heated labour climate
Platinum jitters as turf war flares in Marikana
Platinum companies remain on edge, with tensions raised by Anglo American Platinum’s plan to retrench 6,000 workers to remain profitable
Workers ‘divided’ over how to tackle Amplats’ bid to cut thousands of jobs
Amid mayhem and threat of strike action, platinum miner’s shares take a beating
Pan African looks to offset output drop at mine
Pan African Resources looking for ways to offset expected drop in output at newly acquired Evander gold mine as operations move into lower-grade part of mine
Business as usual at all operations, says Amplats
Threatened strike in Rustenburg fails to materialise, while Tumela underground sit-in ends, says Anglo American Platinum
Calm before the storm as Amcu calls off strike
Lonmin strike ends but Anglo American Platinum workers plan to begin industrial action on Sunday
Boardroom coup sees former BP boss take chair at Glencore Xstrata
Shareholders vote John Bond out at first AGM of merged commodities giant, propelling once ‘vilified’ BP boss Tony Hayward into the limelight
Amplats management to meet protesting workers
Peaceful sit-in at Thabazimbi mine has not affected production, says Anglo American Platinum, while Lonmin workers return to work
Eastplats losses widen in the March quarter
Growing losses come largely as a result of rising input costs, weak metal prices and low productivity at its only operating asset
Venkat stepping into a cauldron at AngloGold
Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan steps into the big shoes of mining veteran Mark Cutifani at a trying time in the history of SA’s biggest gold miner
Rand Refinery ‘looks to cut reliance’ on SA gold
Rand Refinery on active strategy to reduce reliance on processing South African gold as domestic production slides
Glencore’s copper output up on lift from Africa mines
Expansion of the Katanga and Mutanda copper mines is on schedule
‘NUM out,’ says Amcu as mine war simmers
Platinum miner Lonmin shuts shafts amid tense standoff between rival unions
Mine strikes hammering SA platinum production, says survey
London-based Johnson Matthey says platinum shipments from South Africa fell by 16% to the lowest level in 12 years
Eskom must procure 50% of coal from black miners by 2018, says Gigaba
Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba driving establishment of Mine Development Fund to finance coal mine development, mainly at early exploration stage
Lonmin workers embark on illegal strike
Miner’s stock drops sharply as Amcu workers start three-day strike after murder of organiser Mawethu Joseph Steven, and tension with NUM runs high
- Spot gold’s sixth fall in a row weighs on struggling miners
- Lonmin workers issue demands at Marikana
- Amcu draws line in sand on Amplats’ jobs plan
- BHP Billiton plans capital, exploration spending cuts to raise cash flow
- Amplats halves job cuts in restructuring
- Village Main Reef to start talks to close unprofitable mine
- Eskom plans to boost BEE coal miners
- AngloGold set to deliver value to shareholders, cut capital costs further
- Platinum miner Lonmin doubles first-half profit
- Gold Fields set to tighten belt further
- Amplats set to reveal revised restructure plans
- Gold Fields cuts spending to adapt to lower gold price
- Sibanye Gold CEO’s remarks inflame tensions ahead of wage talks
- Wages ‘should be linked to productivity’
- Petra to downscale two mines after sale plan fails
- Effects of fire will show up in ArcelorMittal production figures
- Pan African Resources share gains on outlook
- Randgold & Exploration prefers legal war chest to dividends
- Rockwell boosts quarterly output
- Incoming AngloGold CEO has his work cut out
- Harmony to cut costs as Kusasalethu closure takes toll
- Village’s Continental deal gets go-ahead
- Glencore Xstrata promises dividends, buyback, says it will beat synergy target
- Mine deaths fall, but safety target missed
- UK urged to help end graft in African mining sector
- No failure of command and control at Marikana, inquiry hears
- Gold Fields sells division to management
- BHP nets $650m on sale of Arizona mine
- Village Main Reef may close Buffelsfontein
- Randgold Resources cuts spending
- Great Basin ‘tentatively sells’ Nevada mine
- Lonmin shuts a second furnace
- Gold One misses output target
- Botswana’s coal data in question
- Company pays R33m to up stake in refinery
- Implats losing battle against costs, softer metal prices
- High noon at Amplats as 6000 miners face the axe
- Shandong offers $140m for Stonewall
- Glasenberg at long last concludes Xstrata buy
- Harmony stock dives on weak results
- Aquarius posts higher Zimbabwe, South Africa output
- Sick miners ask Anglo for details of defence
- CoAL executes growth plans, aims to stem losses
- Mines are facing winter blackouts
- Glencore-Xstrata merger now complete
- Eastplats may mothball only operating mine, cut jobs
- Zimbabwe plans new controls on mineral sales
- Zimbabwe ‘to consult miners’ before imposing extra tax to fund polls
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