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…
March 27, 2018 A little-known cobalt miner wants to out-produce everyone except Glencore New output from Congo means the supply of cobalt could exceed demand for a few years, as it did narrowly in 2017.
March 27, 2018 Botswana’s Debswana says expects further rise in diamond output Debswana expects growth this year as lower taxes in the US leave consumers with more to spend on luxury goods.
March 26, 2018 Labour groups file OECD complaint against BHP and Vale over dam-burst disaster The accident killed 19 people, left hundreds homeless and unemployed and caused sludge to wash downstream into the neighbouring state of Espírito Santo.
March 26, 2018 Kinross Gold settles charges over anti-corruption rules: SEC Kinross Gold to pay $950,000 to settle civil charges that it failed to ensure its payments in Africa were not being used to bribe government officials.
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
