May 19, 2011 Continuous mining machine attracts interest from South African coal miners International mining equipment manufacturer Bucyrus reports that its latest development, the 35M continuous miner, has attracted a lot of attention from South African colliery operators constantly on the lookout for…
May 18, 2011 Profit doubles and gold production increases by 17% during Caledonia Mining’s Q1 Caledonia Mining increased gold production by 17% and nearly doubled its profit to $5,248,000 compared to $2,815,000 in the fourth quarter 2010. Announcing its Q1 results on Wednesday, the company…
May 18, 2011 Afferro Mining: metallurgical testwork indicates potential for sinter fines product Preliminary metallurgical test work was conducted on a composite sample of the haematitic saprolite ore from the Nkout Centre area of the deposit. The sample consisted of drill hole intersections…
May 17, 2011 Newcrest to restart Ivory coast operations Newcrest Mining , one of the world's biggest listed gold miners, expects to resume gold production at its Bonikro mine in the Ivory Coast after a stabilisation of political and…
May 17, 2011 Swaziland in KP, delegation seeking rough diamond sales to Israel The small African kingdom of Swaziland is about to become a diamond producer once again and is considering how to approach this opportunity. As an old open-pit mine was recently…
May 17, 2011 Time for South Deep to sweat gold A gold explorer finding a million-ounce deposit is quick to say "world class", but when an established gold miner promises single-mine production of 750,000 ounces a year, eyebrows may rise.…
May 16, 2011 Booyco Electronics releases new environmental sensing instruments Electronic safety equipment specialist Booyco Electronics has recently released two next-generation environmental sensing instruments developed specifically for the South African mining industry. Read more
May 16, 2011 African Barrick could lose 10,000 oz gold in quarter on Buzwagi mill breakdown African Barrick Gold (ABGL.L) said a malfunction in a mill motor at its Buzwagi mine in Tanzania would hit production in the quarter, sending its shares down as much as…
May 13, 2011 Paladin enjoys record revenues, sees no impact from Fukushima In results released on Friday, Australia’s Paladin Energy showed a 47% increase in production from its Namibian and Malawian operations and record revenues of $208.7m on the back of a…
May 13, 2011 Aureus Mining enters into a Can$35.1 million underwriting agreement Aureus Mining announced that it has entered into an underwriting agreement for C$35.1 million with a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Capital Markets and GMP Securities L.P. and including…
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