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Health & Safety

Sentinel AI rolls out AI dust monitoring across South African mineral belt

1 Sep 2025

Mining

Sibanye Stillwater cuts losses to $211m

28 Aug 2025

Gold

Harmony Gold's profits climb 26% on back of record-high bullion prices

28 Aug 2025

From ambition to academia: Second DBA cohort marks a milestone for Regent Business School

Higher Education

From ambition to academia: Second DBA cohort marks a milestone for Regent Business School

Issued by Regent Business School 30 Jun 2025

#WorldTBDay: Minerals Council SA launches multiple language Ex-Mineworkers Occupational Lung Disease Guide

Health & Safety

#WorldTBDay: Minerals Council SA launches multiple language Ex-Mineworkers Occupational Lung Disease Guide

24 Mar 2025

An aerial view of Shaft 11 at Impala Platinum Mine, in Rustenburg. Source: Reuters/Shafiek Tassiem

Mining

PGM crisis makes Implats consider Canada closure

Nelson Banya and Felix Njini 28 Feb 2025

Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad speaks during the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town. Source: Reuters/Shelley Christians

Mining

#MI24: Anglo American considers further cost cuts as PGM crisis deepens

Felix Njini and Veronica Brown 5 Feb 2024

Mining

AngloGold Ashanti shareholders approve South Africa exit

Nelson Banya 21 Aug 2023

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Health & Safety

Addressing the dress code: New PPE provision guidelines fit for women in mining

Kate Collier 16 Aug 2023

A wind turbine produces renewable energy outside Caledon. Source: Reuters/Mike Hutchings

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

South African mines seek to turn up renewables to ease power crisis

Nelson Banya 28 Jun 2023

AngloGold to switch primary listing to US as has 'outgrown' SA

Markets & Investment

AngloGold to switch primary listing to US as has 'outgrown' SA

Nelson Banya and Felix Njini 15 May 2023

Why South Africa's two biggest gold miners differ on wages

Mining

Why South Africa's two biggest gold miners differ on wages

Promit Mukherjee and Nelson Banya 9 Mar 2022

A mine worker is seen underground in South Deep mine outside Johannesburg, file. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Health & Safety

SA mine deaths rose 33% in the first half 2021

9 Jul 2021

John Manuell, local division manager for process industries, ABB South Africa

Mining

3 transformative trends in mining

John Manuell, 31 May 2021

Gold Fields is planning a 40MW plant at South Deep Mine

Mining

Self-generated power, less red tape and new tech will drive SA mining forward

Owen Murphy 3 Mar 2021

Mining

AngloGold Ashanti's sale of SA mines a done deal

14 Sep 2020

Anglo American built a photovoltaic plant over a tailings dam at its Los Bronces copper mine in Chile

Mining

Mining industry explores self generation

6 Apr 2020

Lukas van der Merwe

Mining

Bolstering mining safety through technology

20 Aug 2019

Professor Fred Cawood, director of the Wits Mining Institute

Mining

Best practice report on mining health and safety

14 Aug 2019

Mining activities in South Africa’s rural areas tend to occur at the expense of local communities and the environment. Shutterstock

Mining

How South Africa's rural communities are getting a raw deal from mining

Llewellyn Leonard 15 Jul 2019

Small miners likely to struggle with charter targets

Mining

Small miners likely to struggle with charter targets

Manus Booysen & Rita Spalding 29 Jan 2019

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Science & Engineering

How wearables can revolutionise mining safety

Leon Cosgrove 21 Sep 2018

Primedia Outdoor continues to expand its digital footprint in sub-Saharan Africa

OOH

Primedia Outdoor continues to expand its digital footprint in sub-Saharan Africa

Issued by Primedia Out-of-Home 5 Jul 2018

SA mourns mining disaster deaths

Mining

SA mourns mining disaster deaths

7 May 2018

Technology

Somaliland's voting technology shows how Africa can lead the world

Calestous Juma 16 Nov 2017

AngloGold warns of headlines losses

Mining

AngloGold warns of headlines losses

3 Aug 2017

Kopanang mine. Photo: AngloGold Ashanti

Mining

AngloGold may cut up to 8,500 jobs

Allan Seccombe 29 Jun 2017

AngloGold weighs up its local options

Mining

AngloGold weighs up its local options

Allan Seccombe 10 May 2017

UJ research: Increasing autopsies for compensation of occupational lung diseases

Public Health

UJ research: Increasing autopsies for compensation of occupational lung diseases

11 May 2017

Mining

Is zero harm possible?

27 Mar 2017

Professor Fred Cawood

Science & Engineering

Improving mining H&S through collaboration

Danette Breitenbach 22 Feb 2017

Underground at Great Noligwa. Image via AngloGold Ashanti.

Mining

AngloGold: charter could crush us

Allan Secombe 10 Feb 2017

#BizTrends2017: Mechanisation essential for mining's survival

Trends

#BizTrends2017: Mechanisation essential for mining's survival

Danette Breitenbach 10 Jan 2017

The future of mining lies in changing its modus operandi

Mining

The future of mining lies in changing its modus operandi

16 Sep 2016

SA's mining leadership needs to grab opportunities

Mining

SA's mining leadership needs to grab opportunities

19 Aug 2016

Call for easing on mine stoppages

Mining

Call for easing on mine stoppages

Allan Seccombe 18 Aug 2016

Mining

Gold's Brexit rally must not go to waste

4 Jul 2016

Professor Jan du Plessis

Trends

[BizTrends 2016] Energy efficiency in the mining industry

Professor Jan du Plessis 18 Jan 2016

ANC asks mining companies to reconsider job cuts

Mining

ANC asks mining companies to reconsider job cuts

28 Jul 2015

CSIR system helps deep-level mines talk to the surface

Mining

CSIR system helps deep-level mines talk to the surface

Lucille Davie 23 Jan 2014

Barloworld's share earnings up 31%

Equipment

Barloworld's share earnings up 31%

Mark Allix 21 May 2013

AngloGold's focus on cutting costs

Mining

AngloGold's focus on cutting costs

Allan Seccombe 14 May 2013

Women in underground mining: beyond policy

Health & Safety

Women in underground mining: beyond policy

23 Apr 2013

Mining

Labour problems affect Gold Fields

Allan Seccombe 22 Jan 2013

Well prepared Harmony brushes aside doom and gloom predictions

Mining

Well prepared Harmony brushes aside doom and gloom predictions

29 Nov 2012

Mining

AngloGold threatens 'down-sizing' if strike continues

10 Oct 2012

Mining

Mining bosses talk tough as illegal strikes spook investors

2 Oct 2012

Mining

SA's mining directors' windfall based on 'tall stories'

25 Sep 2012

Energy & Mining

A century later, SA remains number one on gold grades

6 Aug 2012