December 4, 2018 Ivan Glasenberg places a dirty $36B bet: Chris Bryant Glencore’s coal business should be a license to print money for several more years.
December 4, 2018 DRDGOLD begins first phase of Far West tailings project The South African miner is kicking off this week its Far West gold recoveries project in Gauteng with the pumping of reclaimed tailings into the carbon-in-leach circuit, just four months…
December 3, 2018 Semafo reports third security incident in Burkina Faso Jihadist militants ramp up attacks against security forces.
December 3, 2018 Sudan allows local private sector firms to export gold The measure is part of efforts to stem smuggling of gold, one of the country's main sources of foreign currency.
December 3, 2018 Congo triples levy on cobalt with strategic-minerals decree Congo is Africa's top copper producer and mines more than 60 percent of the world's cobalt
December 3, 2018 Congo state miner in production-sharing deal with Chinese firm Production sharing agreements align the interests of the two partners because the risk now weighs more on the investor than on Gecamines.
December 3, 2018 Management shake-up at Glencore costs copper chief Mistakidis his job Company veteran and coal chief Peter Freyberg, has been appointed as the head of industrial mining assets, a newly created role.
December 2, 2018 Iluka resumes operations at Sierra Leone rutile mine as strike ends The strike was the second in the past month to hit Sierra Rutile, one of Sierra Leone's largest companies, following a week-long stoppage in October that led Iluka to cut…
November 30, 2018 S.Africa’s main iron ore export rail link closed until Dec. 9 The Saldanha export line carries iron ore sourced mainly from Kumba mines from the Northern Cape province to the Saldanha port in the Western Cape.
November 29, 2018 Anglo CEO says investor confidence returns to South Africa Anglo American mines platinum, coal, diamonds and iron ore in South Africa.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
