A technology hub has been set up help position the mining sector as a core driver of technological and manufacturing capabilities for the development of the economy...
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A technology hub has been set up help position the mining sector as a core driver of technological and manufacturing capabilities for the development of the economy...
There are currently several pieces of environmental legislation being updated or coming into force, with which the mining industry will be obliged to comply...
14 Sep 2018
The demand for lithium, needed for the batteries to power electric vehicles (EV), will more than double from 26.7kt in 2018 to 58.3kt in 2022...
13 Sep 2018
There are fears that new mining operations in the north east of South Africa could threaten communities, tourism and the environment...
Llewellyn Leonard 13 Sep 2018
The mining industry is an integral contributor to the South African economy, especially in terms of employment...
Norman Keel 11 Sep 2018
Amplats workers and communities benefitted far less than its shareholders during the fat years prior to the global financial crash of 2008...
6 Sep 2018
The winners of the 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year competition have been announced with Samuel and Motlapele Molefi, founders and owners of Modi Mining CC, named as the overall winners...
5 Sep 2018
Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the Pratley Group earlier this year marked the occasion by replicating its memorable launch of Pratley Wondafix in 1985 which saw CEO Kim Pratley stand underneath a 13-tonne bulldozer...
5 Sep 2018
The mining sector grew by 4.9% and contributed 0.4 of a percentage point to gross domestic product (GDP) growth, led by growth in platinum group metals (PGMs), copper and nickel, amongst others...
5 Sep 2018
The Department of Mineral Resources' Mpumalanga Regional Office has been shut down until further notice, following complaints of corruption and backlogs in issuing licences,
4 Sep 2018
Facing the prospect of digital mining transformation, executives have issues with the more complex areas of digital solution implementation, generational workforce evolution and legacy transition challenges...
3 Sep 2018
South Africans who wish to submit comments on the draft Mining Charter have until the end of business today (31 August 2018) to do so...
31 Aug 2018
South Africa is emerging from a debilitating period where politicians and their benefactors systematically placed pliable individuals into key positions at state institutions to gain undue influence and ultimately financial advantage...
Hartmut Winkler 31 Aug 2018
The Q(h)ubeka Trust has awarded R134m in compensation to qualifying former Anglo American South Africa and AngloGold Ashanti mineworkers suffering from silicosis...
29 Aug 2018
The policy uncertainty hangover, notably in the mining sector, from the previous administration continues to manifest itself is a stagnant economy...
Jonathan Veeran & Bruce Dickinson 29 Aug 2018
Nearly five billion people worldwide will use a smartphone by 2020...
Patrick Byrne and Karen Hudson-Edwards 29 Aug 2018
Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says the mining sector must transform to ensure that workers' rights, dignity, health and safety are not compromised...
17 Aug 2018
The 2012, in South Africa's North West Province, in which 34 miners were killed by the police, remains an unhealed scar in post democratic South Africa...
Mia Swart 16 Aug 2018
With the growing global interest in cobalt and copper, the Democratic Republic of Congo's needs to focus on developing specialised mining-related skills...
14 Aug 2018
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) will host the inaugural Memorial Lecture on 15 August at the Sandton Convention Centre in memory of slain Marikana workers...
Pacinamix 14 Aug 2018
South Africa has very few examples of successfully implemented mine closure, despite having laws that compare with the best in the world...
7 Aug 2018
What's in your stuff? Most of us give no thought to the materials that make modern life possible...
Hywel Jones 6 Aug 2018
Impala Platinum's announcement to restructure the company is disconcerting considering the high unemployment rate in the country as reflected in the latest Stats SA survey, says Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe.
3 Aug 2018
The deal in which DRDGold would acquire Sibanye-Stillwater's West Rand Tailings Retreatment Project (WRTRP) assets in exchange for newly issued DRDGold shares has been completed...
1 Aug 2018
National Treasury has received the draft forensic report on alleged irregularities in the awarding by Eskom of a coal contract to Tegeta...
30 Jul 2018
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) will shut down its manganese line as part of its annual large-scale maintenance...
27 Jul 2018
More than 600 employees were successfully evacuated after a fire broke out underground at the Gold One's Modder East operations in the early hours of Thursday morning...
26 Jul 2018
With Women's Month on the doorstep, the Wits Mining Institute (WMI) is presenting its Women Leaders Empowerment for 21st Century Mining seminar from 6-8 August at Wits University...
26 Jul 2018
The spate of unrelated accidents since 2017, which has resulted in a rising fatality trend after more than 20 years of almost uninterrupted improvements in fatality rate improvements...
26 Jul 2018
South Africa and Russia have discussed various options to preserve the value of platinum, says Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe...
25 Jul 2018
