November 16, 2018

Gold miner smuggles in workers by night to bypass strikers

Gold Fields is having to sneak maintenance teams into its South Deep mine in South Africa after protesters shot at vehicles trying to enter the site, where workers have been…

November 15, 2018

Endeavour increases indicated resource 90% at Kari Pump

The company has now upgraded 90% of its Kari Pump resource to the indicated category.

November 15, 2018

Glencore’s Katanga warns of earnings hit if Congo row not resolved

Although Katanga said that copper production was continuing as normal, it warned that its earnings would be affected if the dispute is not settled.

November 15, 2018

Ghana to raise $750m through London IPO of minerals fund

Ghana will seek to raise $750m through a sale of shares in a fund that will hold the West African nation’s stakes in mining companies and receive royalties.

November 15, 2018

Botswana Diamonds buys Alrosa’s stake in Sunland Minerals JV

The company acquired the remaining 50% in the joint venture from its previous partner and said negotiations were already advanced with an unnamed potential new associate.

November 14, 2018

Sibanye-Stillwater signs three-year gold wage agreement with unions

Sibanye-Stillwater currently employs over 32,000 people at its South Africa gold operations.

November 14, 2018

China plumbs ocean depths to extend its cobalt lead

China, the leading holder of international deep sea exploration licences, increases its lead in the race for alternative sources of battery minerals by taking samples from cobalt-bearing mountains deep in…

November 14, 2018

Congo state miner wants meeting over Katanga cobalt-export

“They are taking unilateral decisions that we haven’t verified, that we haven’t certified” - Gecamines President, Albert Yuma

November 14, 2018

Global cobalt glut won’t be stemmed by Glencore Congo output stoppage

Disruptions to cobalt supplies in the DRC are not expected to eradicate a glut of the material used to make batteries for electric vehicles, thwarting hopes that prices can be…

November 14, 2018

Ivanhoe Mines shares jump as it finds new copper-rich area in Congo

Exploration drilling at the Kamoa North prospect area, which forms part of the company's Kamoa-Kakula mining licence, has defined two new, continuous corridors of shallow and high-grade copper mineralization.