Sephaku lifts volumes in highly competitive cement market

JSE-listed minerals exploration, development and investment company Sephaku Holdings’ (SepHold’s) net profit increased by 12.8% year-on-year to to R68.1-million for the year ended March 31, despite... 

Guinea to host alumina-bauxite symposium in September

The International Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Society (IBAAS), in association with geological services provider Camen Resources, will host the sixth edition of the International Bauxite-Alumina... 

Initiatives launched to probe unexploited potential of diamond-bearing gravel deposits, other minerals

The South African mining sector is currently facing a decline and in an attempt to stimulate and support renewed mining activities, the Council for Geoscience (CGS) has launched a number of... 

Marian van der Walt

This week we feature Marian van der Walt, the corporate and investor relations executive at Harmony Gold, South Arrica's third-biggest gold producing company, which employs 30 000 people and has a... 

AngloGold initiates arbitration proceedings over new Tanzania legislation

Concerned about newly enacted legislation in Tanzania, gold mining major AngloGold Ashanti is seeking a “constructive dialogue” with the Tanzania government to gain assurance that its operations... 

Poseidon, Aphrodite enter MOU to assess gold processing at Black Swan

ASX-listed companies Poseidon Nickel and Aphrodite Gold announced on Monday that they had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to evaluate the processing of Aphrodite’s gold mineral... 

Kidman to focus on Earl Grey development as tussle with Marindi is resolved

ASX-listed gold and lithium miner Kidman Resources has successfully defended the ownership of lithium rights to its Mt Holland project, including the Earl Grey deposit, located near Southern Cross... 

Altura concludes offtake agreements with Chinese battery firms

ASX-listed lithium developer Altura Mining has executed a binding offtake agreement (BOA) with Chinese battery producer Shaanxi J&R Optimum Energy and has revised the terms of the existing BOA with... 

Toro receives federal approval for Wiluna uranium project

Federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has granted environmental approval for Toro Energy’s Wiluna extension uranium project, in Western Australia.   The project was assessed under... 

Universal expects output to hit 3Mt in 2017, significantly improves cash flow

ASX-listed coal miner Universal Coal advised on Monday that its Kangala and New Clydesdale Colliery (NCC) mines, in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, delivered an estimated three-million tons of... 

Neometals to advance integrated strategy as it holds on to Mt Marion equity

ASX-listed Neometals will advance an integrated strategy for its lithium assets, including developing a downstream processing plant to produce lithium hydroxide, after the notice period for selling... 

Explorer seeking partners to support its efforts to tap Mauritania’s mineral wealth

Mauritania has many mining investment opportunities, with economic, social and political conditions conducive to the pursuit of developing a sector considered strategic by the country’s government,... 

COAL COMBINATION

TSX-and-JSE-listed bituminous and anthracite coal miner Buffalo Coal produces high-quality thermal and metallurgical coal from its operations, which are based near the town of Dundee, in... 

New technologies enabling advances in geological mapping

Geological mapping has represented the core function of the Council for Geoscience (CGS) for more than 100 years. Geological maps provide the base information for a range of applications, including... 

Mining Charter imbizo aborted as section of audience heckles Minister

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane was, last month, forced to leave a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, without addressing the meeting. The... 

Premier's imbizo no-show explained

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza was unable to attend a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, regarding the third iteration of the Mining Charter, last... 

Motion Metrics sells six payload monitoring systems to local mine

Monitoring solutions provider Motion Metrics has sold six of its ShovelMetrics payload monitoring solution systems for hydraulic shovels to a South African precious metals mine looking to improve... 

Explorer seeking partners to support its efforts to tap Mauritania’s mineral wealth

Mauritania has many mining investment opportunities, with economic, social and political conditions conducive to the pursuit of developing a sector considered strategic by the Mauritanian... 

Zama-zamas depriving South Africa of R20bn in revenue each year – Sibanye

Illegal mining is by no means a victimless crime, as it costs South Africa an estimated R20-billion a year in lost mineral sales, taxes and royalties, diversified miner Sibanye protection services... 

M&A activity ‘largely static’ as Chinese investors steal march on sector

One of the biggest mergers and acquisition (M&A) stories of 2016 concerned the assets that did not sell. A number of large deals, expected to be completed by early 2017, were withdrawn from the... 

Company seeks strategic partners as it aims to mine diamonds off the West Coast

Local diamond exploration company Mza Diamonds Resources is calling for expressions of interest from marine mining companies to join the company to deploy remote marine mining equipment to extract... 

Passive treatment may hold key to tackling AMD challenge – geoscientist

Abandoned coal mines have contributed to the generation of acid mine drainage (AMD) in South Africa, states Council for Geoscience (CGS) environmental geoscientist Gloria Dube. She elaborates that... 

Illegal mining a substantial burden on South African economy, warns Sibanye

Illegal mining is by no means a victimless crime, as it costs South Africa an estimated R20-billion a year in lost mineral sales, taxes and royalties, Sibanye protection services senior VP Nash... 

Mpumalanga Premier unable to attend Mining Charter imbizo owing to Russia trip

Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza was unable to attend a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, regarding the third iteration of the Mining Charter, last... 

Zwane forced to beat a hasty retreat from community engagement imbizo

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane was, on Friday, forced to leave a community engagement imbizo in the Steve Tshwete local municipality, in Mpumalanga, without addressing the meeting. The... 

Much progress in mineworker housing delivery but more needs to be done

Many migrant employees do not want to permanently settle in mining towns, but prefer to maintain their homes in the rural areas and return to them, says the Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa,... 

Much progress in mineworker housing delivery but more needs to be done

Many migrant employees do not want to permanently move to mining towns, but prefer to maintain and return to their homes in rural areas, says the Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa, citing its... 

UK young mining professionals form association as they eye domestic, offshore opportunities

The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) association, in the UK held its launch event in London last month, where “like-minded” individuals from within the UK met to discuss the opportunities that... 

BCL liquidation poser for Botswana diamond exploration JV

Diamond explorer and project developer Botswana Diamonds is weighing its options in resolving the corporate governance issues relating to its Maibwe joint venture (JV) exploration project, in the... 

Lonmin risk manager spells out four scenarios local mines may be exposed to in 2017

In the Institute of Risk Management South Africa’s (IRMSA’s) recently launched 2017 risks report, four scenarios laying out how the country’s National Development Plan (NDP) might potentially be... 

Top 40 miners returned to profitability in 2016 – PwC

The world’s top 40 miners recovered from a “race to the bottom”, with bolstered balance sheets and a return to profitability in 2016, giving them much-needed space to pause and take a breath. This... 

De Beers establishes incubation hub for Kroonstad’s entrepreneurs

Diamond miner De Beers’ Voorspoed mine has officially unveiled its Incubation Support Programme for small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) at the miner’s Zimele business hub in Kroonstad,... 

Mundoro Capital focusing on copper, gold exploration in south-eastern Europe

Mineral exploration and investment company Mundoro Capital is focused on providing value to its shareholders through the exploration work on its copper and gold projects, in Serbia and Bulgaria.... 

Technological innovations will be key to success of seabed mining

Minerals from the deep sea, such as polymetallic nodules, ferromanganese crusts and hydrothermal sulfides are potential sources of metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt, manganese and iron. In... 

Zambia’s mines chamber calls for transparent electricity pricing

The Zambia Chamber of Mines (ZCM) says that the country’s power pricing must of necessity be determined in a transparent, objective and efficient manner. The chamber notes that as an industry body,... 

Consolidation of efforts key to increasing youth participation in mining

South Africa’s mining sector needs to consolidate its current youth development initiatives to ensure meaningful upliftment of the country’s youth, says Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa... 

Unrehabilitated Mpumalanga asbestos mine tailings a possible health hazard – scientist

Asbestos mining was banned in South Africa because of the health effects linked to the inhalation of asbestos dust-fibres. However, asbestos mine tailings in Mpumalanga have not been rehabilitated... 

Incubation fund launched to support mining startups

In response to the funding challenges young business people in the South African mining industry are faced with, a fellow young professional in the mining industry has recently established the... 

CoM to boycott new Mining Charter announcement, holds own briefing at 13:30

Ahead of the scheduled publication of the reviewed Mining Charter 3 by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) later on Thursday, the Chamber of Mines (CoM) has raised its concerns about the... 

Consolidation of efforts key to increasing youth participation in mining

South Africa’s mining sector needs to consolidate its current youth development initiatives to ensure meaningful upliftment of the country’s youth, says Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa...