December 5, 2018 Zimbabwe to let two new private miners dig for diamonds It may even allow foreign investors to hold majority stakes in local operations on condition that part of their output is reserved for domestic downstream industries.
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…
US urges partners and allies to increase critical minerals supply chain resiliency Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosted his counterparts in Washington to discuss solutions to secure and diversify supply chains for critical minerals. January 12, 2026 | 03:08 pm
