March 30, 2018 Anglo American ordered to halt Brazil ops again after leak A document by Brazilian environmental watchdog Ibama seen by Reuters said Anglo American would only be allowed to resume operations once it demonstrates the pipeline's security.
March 30, 2018 Illegal gold miners invade Grace Mugabe’s farm Mugabe was touring the farm when she ran into the miners.
March 30, 2018 East Africa Metals and Luck Winner fail to agree on Ethiopian projects financing “Despite the best efforts of both parties, negotiations failed to define a viable transaction," management said in a media statement.
March 29, 2018 Randgold reports record year At year-end, the company had net cash of more than $700 million and no debt.
March 29, 2018 Miners ask Congo to introduce sliding royalty scale The proposal, signed by companies responsible for 85% of the DRC's copper, cobalt and gold output, suggest that sliding royalties will give the government a higher share of revenues.
March 29, 2018 Canada’s Asanko, South Africa’s Gold Fields team up in $185m Ghana JV Companies are teaming up to develop one of the country’s newest gold mine, the Asanko Gold Mine (AGM).
March 28, 2018 Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk dies at 90 The company said its founder and chairman emeritus, Peter Munk, passed away Wednesday in Toronto, surrounded by his family.
March 28, 2018 Digging for cobalt riches: Congo races to fix a deadly problem The man was digging a toilet in his backyard when his shovel struck a shimmering blue vein of cobalt... At least that’s the legend in Kolwezi.
March 28, 2018 Sibanye-Stillwater partners with Wits to create the ‘mine of the future’ In partnership with the Wits Mining Institute (WMI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, the company launched the Sibanye-Stillwater Digital Mining Laboratory (DigiMine).
March 28, 2018 DRDGold okays Sibanye-Stillwater $110 million-assets exchange deal South Africa’s top gold producer has secured a 38% stake in DRDGold in exchange for some of its assets, which boosts the mid-tier gold miner’s reserves by 91% to 5.7…
Precious metals craze prompts China fund to turn away investors UBS SDIC Fund had become increasingly concerned that investors could be exposed to heavy losses should a record-breaking bull market suddenly turn. December 27, 2025 | 08:00 am
