May 10, 2018

Fresh skillsets crucial for mining to survive flux

How a decrease in resources, increases need for novel talent not traditionally found in extraction.

May 10, 2018

Q1 results – Kibali shines as Randgold maintains annual production guidance

Randgold Resources said today its 2018 production guidance remained intact despite a softer first quarter in which it contended with multiple challenges.

May 10, 2018

Randgold hopeful of compromise with Congo over new mining rules

Seven mining companies submitted a proposal to the Mines Ministry insisting that the government reinsert a stability clause, contained in the 2002 code.

May 10, 2018

Weak mining, manufacturing data put pressure on South Africa recovery

Mining production in March suffered its sharpest fall in two years and industrial output dropped, Statistics South Africa data showed on Thursday.

May 10, 2018

World’s No. 2 platinum stock languishes on output, cost woes

Bad news from South Africa’s platinum belt has pushed shares of Impala to the lowest since 1999.

May 10, 2018

De Beers tracks first 100 diamonds through supply chain using blockchain

The world’s largest rough diamond producer by value will launch the tracking platform later this year, making it available to the whole industry.

May 9, 2018

Randgold ends gold venture with Cradle Arc in Mali

Under the agreement begun in February 2016, Randgold held a 65 percent stake in the Kossanto West Gold Project licences, which will revert to Cradle Arc, now the 100 percent…

May 9, 2018

Kinross reels as two more African nations seek mining payoffs

The Canadian miner is the latest company to be hit by changing policies in Africa as governments seem increasingly willing to upend historic deals with foreign companies in their quest…

May 9, 2018

Mexico greenlights First Majestic’s $320 million-acquisition of Primero

The approval was the final government agency’s permission the parties required to close the deal.

May 9, 2018

Lerala Diamond Mine Limited is going on auction

This auction includes the sale of the pits, the resource, the process plant and ancillary equipment. Goindustry, along with the liquidators, will assist with the transfer of the mining rights,…