December 4, 2018

No. 2 platinum miner mulls purchases in low-cost asset shift

Chief Executive Officer Nicolaas Muller said Implats could return to profit by around 2020 by shutting older shafts at its Rustenburg mining complex.

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.