Gold Fields La Cima SAA announced that Mr. Juan Luis Alfredo Kruger Sayan has resigned from his posts of Chief Executive Officer effective March 15, 2013
South Africa overtook India to become China's third-biggest iron ore supplier in 2012, while Australia strengthened its dominant position as the major supplier to Beijing, data from customs showed on Monday.
Gold prices eased nearly 1 percent on Monday, pulling back from the previous session's 6-1/2 month high, as the dollar rose and assets seen as higher risk, like stocks, the euro and other commodities like crude oil, retreated.
Suncor Energy Inc has begun a planned six-week maintenance turnaround on a vacuum tower for an upgrader at its northern Alberta oil sands operations, Sneh Seetal, a spokeswoman for the company, said on Friday.
Europe's No.2 copper producer KGHM said on Tuesday its recently acquired Canadian unit Quadra FNX had returned to profit after the first seven months of the year.
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) opened its first laboratory in Israel on Monday, giving a boost to the country's diamond industry, one of its largest export earners.
South Africa's gold mining companies have been hit by union demands for wage hikes but the industry has little room to budge as current collective agreements do not expire until the middle of next year, the country's chamber of mines said on Monday.
