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AECI CEO Holger Riemensperger
AECI mulling future of historic Modderfontein site after difficult few months
30th June 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Explosives and chemicals group AECI is expecting an operational recovery at its iconic Modderfontein plant in the second half of 2025, following a difficult first few months to the year when output... 


Cementation Africa MD Japie du Plessis interviewed by Mining Weekly's Martin Creamer.
Newly named Cementation Africa excited about setting business on new growth path
30th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The newly named Cementation Africa is excited about setting the rebranded business on a new growth path. As part of preparations to operate outside of the Murray & Roberts Group, the new “own... 


Patriot start drilling at Copper Top Hill in Zambia
30th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Australian mining company Patriot Resources said on Monday that it had started drilling activities at its Copper Top Hill prospect, about 850 m northeast of the Sugarloaf copper deposit in Zambia’s... 


The Flora project in Ontario
Kenorland signs option agreement with Centerra for Ontario gold projects
27th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

TSX-V-listed project generator Kenorland Minerals has signed a definitive agreement with Centerra Gold, granting the midtier producer the right to earn up to a 70% interest in three of Kenorland’s... 


Harmony Gold CEO Beyers Nel
Gold mining in emerging markets has enabled Harmony’s expansion in Australian copper
26th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

The good momentum at Harmony Gold Mining Company’s South African and Papua‑New Guinean operations has enabled the company to replace ounces and grow the company. Even with the funding of the... 


Sydney University Associate Professor Dr Lauren Johnston on screen top left at London Indaba.
China sees pleasing Africa as form of insurance against trade wars, London Indaba hears
25th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

China sees pleasing Africa as a form of insurance against trade war impacts, Sydney University Associate Professor Dr Lauren Johnston spelt out at the London Indaba, the annual event organised by... 


GoviEx expands exploration programme in Zambia
24th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

GoviEx Uranium has announced the launch of the 2025 field season at the Muntanga uranium project, in Zambia. Following four years of work that culminated in a positive feasibility study with a... 


Vale Base Metals chairperson Mark Cutifani at the London Indaba.
Praise heaped on geological data transparency of Malawi, Nigeria at London Indaba
24th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

There are only two countries in Africa that currently make their geological survey data open to the world. “Malawi is the first, and I believe Nigeria is the second,” Vale Base Metals chairperson... 


Oriole publishes positive drill results for Mbe
24th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

Aim-listed Oriole Resources has announced further positive drill results at its 90%-owned Mbe orogenic gold project, in Cameroon, including the start of a Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (Jorc-)... 


Bill’s Luck gold resource ‘significantly bigger’ than originally thought, Kavango CEO reveals
24th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

LSE-listed Kavango Resources has discovered new gold-bearing structures at the Bill's Luck gold mine, at the Hillside project, in Zimbabwe. Kavango has been mining gold at Bill's Luck since August... 


Aterian appoints strategic adviser for asset transactions
24th June 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

London-listed Aterian has appointed Arron Smyth as strategic adviser for asset transactions, with immediate effect. In this newly created role, Smyth will support the Aterian management team in... 


New CSIRO software tool to accelerate mineral discovery in Australia
20th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has this week released LandScape+, a new online tool to help geologists interpret their geochemical data and plan follow-up exploration programmes to... 


$2m Northern Star loan to fund PolarX’s Alaska exploration season
20th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed PolarX has secured a $2-million loan from major shareholder Northern Star Resources to fund a resource expansion campaign at its Alaska Range copper/gold project. The loan, which is... 


A generic image of a gold mine
Miner focuses on long-term vision in Latin America
20th June 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

The long-term goal of becoming a 500 000-gold-equivalent-ounce-a-year producer that is both cost competitive and in possession of long-life assets remains a top priority for precious metals miner... 


An image of Vale's Nacala Port Dormitory
Modular solutions able to meet mine development needs
20th June 2025

As mining operations across the African continent expand, the industry requires accommodation solutions that offer speed and comfort, which can be achieved through portable building manufacturer... 


The Reko Diq project area
Capital awarded a borehole drilling services contract at Barrick's Reko Diq project
19th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

London-listed mining services company Capital has been awarded a further significant contract at Barrick Mining's majority-owned Reko Diq copper/gold project, in Pakistan, as well as exploration... 


SRK Consulting Congo chairperson Dominique Sambwa.
Positive infrastructure advancement on way in DRC, SRK Consulting Congo reports
18th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Positive infrastructure advancement is on the way in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), SRK Consulting Congo chairperson Dominique Sambwa has pointed out. Speaking to Mining Weekly during a... 


Uis
Andrada secures additional tin supply from nearby orebody
17th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

Tin producer Andrada Mining has secured additional supply from a tin orebody at Goantagab in close proximity to the company’s operating Uis mine and processing facility, in Namibia. The orebody,... 


JSE-listed Shuka secures 100% of Zambian zinc mine
12th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

London-listed Africa-focused mining and exploration company Shuka Minerals, which sealed a secondary listing on the alternative exchange of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) earlier this month,... 


Zambia’s South Africa-based cadastre system developer re-engaged, Ministry confirms
12th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Zambia’s South Africa-developed mining cadastre licensing system portals have been reactivated, the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development has confirmed. “The disruption was due to the... 


Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe
Minerals Council still unhappy with new mining Bill despite two key changes
12th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

Despite Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe gazetting a much-welcomed erratum to the controversial new Mineral Resources Development Bill on June 9, the Minerals Council South... 


Kinetiko to raise $2.2m through placement to fund commercialisation of Mpumalanga gas projects
12th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

ASX-listed Kinetiko Energy has received firm commitments from professional and sophisticated investors to raise up to $2.2-million through the placement of more than 55-million new fully paid... 


South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa flanked by CFM Green Hydrogen executive Sebastiaan Surie (left) and Hive Hydrogen chairperson Thulani Gcabashe.
South Africa’s green hydrogen sector boosted by big-ticket funding commitments
12th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

In a step to accelerate South Africa’s just energy transition and establish the country as a global green hydrogen leader, R656-million has been committed to a green hydrogen fund. South Africa’s... 


Mogale Tailings Retreatment plant,
Pan African proves it can commission large gold projects abroad with aplomb
11th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa witnessed Pan African build the Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) gold project on Johannesburg’s West Rand ahead of schedule and below budget. Now Australia is witnessing this... 


Copper 360 CEO Graham Briggs.
The immediate target of new Copper 360 CEO is 5 000 t of copper in six to 12 months
10th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The immediate target of new Copper 360 CEO Graham Briggs is 5 000 t of copper in six to 12 months. Based on current assessments, Briggs is of the firm belief that, within that period, the... 


Original cadastre reportedly reactivated.
Mining cadastre that breaches must-be-Zambia-hosted stipulation reportedly reactivated
10th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

As of Monday morning June 10, it seems that Zambia’s Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development has reactivated the cadastre portal that is non-locally hosted amid the in-country-hosted version... 


AGC secures belt-scale control of South Cobar with new tenement deal
10th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Australian Gold and Copper (AGC) has struck a deal to acquire a strategic exploration licence in New South Wales, giving the junior explorer belt-scale control of the South Cobar basin.... 


West Cobar brings Mystique into its fold
9th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed West Cobar has completed the acquisition of the Mystique project – an exploration licence in the Fraser Range province of Western Australia – from base metals miner IGO. The licence... 


Tivan awarded NT exploration grants for Sandover fluorite project
6th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Tivan said on Friday that it had secured exploration grant funding from the Northern Territory government for its Sandover fluorite project. The firm was awarded a total of A$150 000... 


GALLIUM TARGET
Altona Rare Earths, in its quest to find gallium in Mozambique, has drilled about 8 000 m, completed a scoping study and published a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant mineral resource estimate of 13.6-million tonnes at 2.42% total rare earth oxides for its Monte Muambe project
Gallium discovery at Monte Muambe spurs investor search
6th June 2025

LSE-listed junior exploration and critical minerals company Altona Rare Earths is seeking a strategic investor to co-fund a prefeasibility study (PFS) phase, following the identification of... 


A picture of Big Ben in London at dusk with a time laps of the traffic and car lights at the fore
Indaba aims to engage on a deeper level
6th June 2025 By: Halima Frost

With a list of sponsors and speakers that understand the complex intersection of sustainability, geopolitics, regulation and capital flows, this year’s London Indaba “promises to be a deeply... 


A pile of various critical minerals in different forms, grades and fines
Exploration key to future mining in S Africa
6th June 2025 By: Halima Frost

While South Africa is a source of critical minerals, ongoing exploration activity is needed to discover new deposits and grow the country’s minerals resource base, says industry employers’... 


Lara Smith at a mining site in Mozambique.
Contingency planning key to mitigating mining risks
6th June 2025 By: Devina Haripersad

Following the post-election protests and attacks that disrupted Mozambique’s mining sector in October 2024, specialist consultancy Core Consultants is advising companies to stockpile key materials,... 


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