It seems that a High Court judgement in favour of Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) and Xolobeni community over mining rights on their land is not good enough for Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe...
The increased participation at the recent Africa Down Under conference indicates that the caution exhibited over last few years by many of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed junior explorers may have come to an end...
Sherif Andrawes 3 days ago
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) intends to embark on a secondary, protected strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's South African Platinum Group Metals (PGM) operations...
15 Jan 2019
Marginal oil & gas fields are not particularly attractive to the major players due to their relatively small prospects, but they do offer great opportunity for smaller independent African and non-African companies...
14 Jan 2019
Any survey of residents of Xolobeni about mining commissioned by government will simply amount to intimidation and could be in contravention of a recent ruling of the North Gauteng High Court, according to the Bench Marks Foundation.
11 Jan 2019
As traditional and known reserves deplete and ore-grades fall, miners will start exploring remote and previously inaccessible locations...
7 Jan 2019
South Africa's mining industry crawled to the end of 2018 battered, bruised, and a mere shadow of its former world-dominating self...
Jade Davenport 7 Jan 2019
The year 2018 saw the gazetting of the Broad-Based Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining and Minerals Industry, 2018 (the Mining Charter). Its chief end is to give effect to meaningful economic participation, integration into the mainstream economy and effective ownership of the country's mineral resources to historically disadvantaged persons.
Athi Jara and Mihlali Sitefane 7 Jan 2019
The battery revolution has created a market for metals such as lithium and cobalt, which will see them outperform traditional minerals and set them up as the commodities of the future...
7 Jan 2019
The discovery of minerals in South Africa in the late 19th century - including the discovery of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1886 - played a fundamentally influential role in the first wave of industrial revolution of the country.
Karen King 4 Jan 2019
Climate change will hammer the US economy unless there's swift action to rein in greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, according to the latest National Climate Assessment report...
Garth Heutel 28 Dec 2018
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18 Dec 2018
A South African High Court has passed an important judgment putting a stop to the pervasive practice by companies to mine ancestral lands...
Sonwabile Mnwana 14 Dec 2018
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