April 14, 2012 Billionaire behaving badly? Glencore’s Glasenberg caught in Africa child labour, acid dumping row In a scathing new BBC documentary that includes the first ever television interview with CEO Ivan Glasenberg, commodities trader Glencore is accused of allowing dumping of acid into streams, child…
April 13, 2012 Long-rumoured takeover target Harmony Gold cheapest in a year Harmony Gold briefly dropped to a year low of $9.68 on Friday after the company announced a steep fall-off in output for the first quarter. Now worth $4.4 billion the…
April 13, 2012 FT: Mining becoming the ticket out of Sierra Leone’s poverty The decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone brought two unforgettable images to the West: victims of violence whose limbs were hacked off by armed rebels as a warning to civilians;…
April 13, 2012 The last time South Africa’s mines produced this little the country was still ruled by the Queen of England Output from the resources industry in the African nation is now the lowest since 1961, the year South Africa left the British Commonwealth and declared itself a republic
April 12, 2012 Essar plans to buy coking coal mines in Africa, Australia Essar Steel is planning to acquire coking coal mines in Africa or Australia to help the company that has few captive sources of crucial raw materials integrate backward to protect…
April 11, 2012 Ellis Martin Report with David Duval of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corp Ellis Martin interviews David Duval, special advisor to Jim Sinclair, President of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corproation (NYSE:TRX).
April 11, 2012 A pretty infographic to take on the Kimberley Process MINING.com reported on how opponents and proponents of hydraulic fracturing were using videos and infographics to argue their case. Now a London jeweler, Ingle and Rhode, is taking on the…
April 10, 2012 AngloGold Ashanti lost more ounces over safety in Q1 than all of 2011 Work stoppages as a result of safety issues in South Africa cost AngloGold Ashanti 76,000 ounces of lost production in the first quarter.
April 10, 2012 Brigadier Gold announces amendment to terms of Mozambique transaction The consideration previously announced in the press release dated March 29, 2012 was the payment of $325,000 in cash and issuance of 7.5 million Special Warrants having a 2 year…
April 10, 2012 Reports of Mugabe’s death are greatly exaggerated Widely circulated reports that the 88-year old were fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital were deemed to be "lies meant to destabilise Zimbabwe," according to a spokesman.
South32 HY profit beats estimates, trims production view for Brazil operations Its underlying earnings attributable was $435 million for the half-year ended December 31. February 11, 2026 | 02:29 pm