The new Mining Charter is on ice until the outcome of an urgent application for an interdict by the Chamber of Mines...
4 hours ago
The new Mining Charter is on ice until the outcome of an urgent application for an interdict by the Chamber of Mines...
Coupled with the global movement of protecting the environment and leaving communities better off, mine closure is a complex process rather than a single event...
Coupled with the global movement of protecting the environment and leaving communities better off, mine closure is a complex process rather than a single event...
9 hours ago
Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has welcomed a ruling which states that section 20A of the Diamonds Act, 1986 (as amended) is not unconstitutional...
2 days ago
CONAKRY - Two women and a man who slipped past security in northeastern Guinea to pan for gold died in a landslide...
21 Jul 2017
After reaching a legal stalemate with the Chamber of Mines over the Mining Charter III, the mining minister has published a notice on his intention to impose a moratorium on prospecting and mining rights...
20 Jul 2017
Mining Charter III has been mired in controversy since before its publication...
Kate Collier and Jonathan Veeran 19 Jul 2017
The mining minister has agreed not to implement the new Mining Charter, pending the outcome of an urgent interdict...
17 Jul 2017
AngloGold Ashanti's subsidiaries in Tanzania have initiated arbitration to protect their interests in case the government changes the terms of their longstanding agreement...
17 Jul 2017
The government is looking for new ways to regulate the effects of mining activity on SA's scarce water resources..
Khulekani Magubane 14 Jul 2017
A strong signal of growing business engagement with Africa by large US corporations was the announcement last September by Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman of plans to invest over $1b in Africa over the next five years...
14 Jul 2017
As a result of acquiring Stillwater Mining Company, Sibanye Group has reshuffled its organisational structure from divisional commodity units to a geographical regionalised structure...
13 Jul 2017
AngloGold Ashanti chairman Sipho Pityana has warned of further job cuts in mining, saying the country's macroeconomic policies made it impossible to sustain jobs...
12 Jul 2017
The latest version of the Mining Charter is much tougher on employment equity targets than its predecessor...
Johan Olivier 12 Jul 2017
SepFluor has begun work on the R1.7bn Nokeng fluorspar mine at Rust de Winter, northeast of Pretoria, with funding provided by private equity and banks...
Charlotte Mathews 11 Jul 2017
CEOs of large-cap basic resources companies are the highest paid among their peers, despite spectacular share price declines over the past decade...
7 Jul 2017
Rescuers called off a search for miners who were trapped underground after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, declaring 17 dead...
7 Jul 2017
Chinese companies are planning or constructing hundreds of coal-fired power projects around the world, even as Beijing talks up its commitment to fighting climate change...
6 Jul 2017
Mineral resources minister, Mosebenzi Zwane is directly responsible for damaging investor confidence, and therefore the possible 8,500 job losses at AngloGold Ashanti...
4 Jul 2017
The third and most controversial iteration of the Mining Charter was developed by the Department of Mineral Resources by people with a lack of integrity...
30 Jun 2017
Sibanye's Cooke Operations is to resume mining on Monday, 3 July, following an unprotected strike over a prohibition on food being taken underground...
30 Jun 2017
The Pretoria High Court has granted an order to the coalition of eight organisations challenging the proposed coal mine by Atha-Africa Ventures inside the Mabola Protected Environment and Ekangala-Drakensberg strategic water source area...
Catherine Horsfield 29 Jun 2017
AngloGold Ashanti could cut up to 8,500 jobs at its unprofitable South African mines, reducing its workforce by nearly a third...
Allan Seccombe 29 Jun 2017
No industry has more equity ownership transfer than mining. Paradoxically, more jobs have been lost in the sector than any other...
27 Jun 2017
Mining companies will need to start amending their legal and corporate structures if the challenges to the Mining Charter are unsuccessful...
Giada Masina, Allan Reid and Deepa Vallabh 22 Jun 2017
Credit rating agency Fitch says the new Mining Charter showed that its decision to cut SA's sovereign credit rating to junk in April was correct...
Robert Laing 21 Jun 2017
Debmarine's newest diamond mining vessel, SS Nujoma, has started operations after being commissioned in Walvis Bay last week...
20 Jun 2017
The worst fears of a cross-section of mining industry stakeholders were realised when the latest iteration of the Mining Charter was released last week...
Nicci Botha 19 Jun 2017
Stronger global trade is expected this year and as reported by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), indicators like export orders and container shipping are on the rise at the beginning of 2017...
19 Jun 2017
The regulatory environment governing the mining industry in South Africa has never been more complicated - or expensive...
Danette Breitenbach 15 Jun 2017
The revised Mining Charter could be gazetted this week, but the Chamber of Mines is worried that it may differ from what was originally proposed...
14 Jun 2017
