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.
March 26, 2018 Platinum mines in the world’s top producer are shrinking Producers in South Africa are closing shafts and cutting jobs as a stronger rand combines with stagnating prices for the metal in squeezing profit margins.
March 26, 2018 Congo’s 2017 mining revenue up 36% while oil revenue doubles Mining revenue in the fourth quarter more than doubled helped by higher prices for key exports such as copper and cobalt.
Codelco, SQM kick off lithium tie-up with board meeting The NovaAndino Litio company was established after an agreement signed in May 2024 and valid until 2060. December 29, 2025 | 07:59 am
