September 5, 2013

INFOGRAPHIC: Proven gold reserves around the globe

World total of 52,000 metric tons.

September 5, 2013

Right now labour is SA’s big story with the stark options: The highway or the dirt road

Gideon du Plessis, General Secretary of South African trade union Solidarity, provides a brilliant summation of an extraordinarily fragile situation.

September 5, 2013

Global mining deals down 74% and not much hope for 2014

PwC said the statistics reflected a shift by miners from buyers to sellers.

September 5, 2013

18 illegal Chinese miners caught ‘black handed,’ not in Ghana this time

Black sand mining in the Philippines.

September 4, 2013

Gold nanotech patents are skyrocketing

"To me it’s one of the best things that’s happened in my medical practice. It’s rare to see something that works so dramatically."

September 4, 2013

Simandou probe now involves 6 countries

The rights to one of the world's richest iron ore deposits is the subject of an unprecedented global corruption investigation.

September 4, 2013

Thousands of South African gold miners on strike

Shutdown in gold production costs the country more than US$34 million a day.

September 3, 2013

Canadian diamond venture banks its biggest tender yet

Earns $856,000 from South African rocks.

September 3, 2013

Industrial production, business confidence picking up in advanced economies: OECD

Though global growth is likely to remain sluggish for a while.

September 3, 2013

Dave Forest: How to play the looming platinum supply crisis

South Africa, platinum mining giant, is about to fall off the investment map.