London-listed Tungsten West has appointed Jeffery Court as its new CEO, taking charge of progressing the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine, in Devon, UK, towards production. The appointment, which is... 

South Africa’s preparation for a brand new economic future is coinciding with the biggest ever Electra Mining Africa show, which takes place in Johannesburg, from September 2-6. Five interconnected... 

Aim- and TSX-V-listed Cornish Metals has announced the appointment of Don Turvey as CEO. The appointment is intended to be effective from September 1, and is subject to the approval of a UK work... 

Aim-listed Andrada Mining’s subsidiary, Uis Tin Mining Company (UTMC), has concluded the N$175-million (about £7.5-million) funding agreements with Bank Windhoek Limited (BWL), as previously... 

iversified mining and marketing company Glencore on Wednesday highlighted what it described as “strong strategic achievements for the group over the year to date”. Against the backdrop of lower... 

Unlisted Australian mineral exploration and development company Atlantic Tin's Moroccan subsidiary Titan Tin has completed its acquisition of Société Anonyme d’Entreprises Minières (Samine) from... 

Aim-listed Rome Resources has started drilling on its Kalayi prospect in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Kalayi prospect, together with the Mont Agoma and the... 

The capital-raising success that emerging copper and zinc mining company Orion Minerals achieved is kindling high hopes that smaller South African shareholders will be facilitated to play a greater... 

Aim-listed Rome Resources has begun the mobilisation of the first of three diamond core drill rigs to be used in the first week of August at sites identified and prepared by the company at its... 

London-listed Pathfinder Minerals has completed the reverse takeover of Canada-based exploration company Rome Resources, which owns tin projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). As a... 

Minerals Council South Africa, whose members account for 90% of this country's annual mineral production by value, supports beneficiation where the economics make sense. “Therefore, we welcome the... 

The only US cobalt mine sits fallow in the northern Idaho woods, a mothballed hunk of steel and dirt that is too expensive for its owner to operate because Chinese rivals have flooded global... 

TSX-V- and JSE-listed Alphamin Resources has produced 4 027 t of tin for the quarter ended June 30 – a 28% increase from the March quarter. Alphamin, which owns and operates the Mpama North and... 

Companies buying metal sourced from central Africa could be exposing themselves to UN sanctions for supporting war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a report by UN experts.... 

Dual-listed Andrada Mining has executed a legally binding agreement to restructure Uis Tin Mining Company (UTMC), the operational Namibian entity that holds the ML133, ML134 and ML129 mining... 

South African mining needs what is often referred to as a one-stop shop to ensure that an applicant is not sent from one department to the other but goes to one place where the application is... 

New power is needed by the Western mining industry, which is still functioning on a trailing old power business model. This was highlighted at Tuesday’s London Indaba, where a spotlight was shone... 

Aim-listed Andrada Mining, which owns operations in Namibia, has announced a 14% quarter-on-quarter increase in saleable tantalum concentrate production to 9 t for the quarter ended May 31, which... 

The University of Fort Hare, where the offspring of mineworkers were the first graduates, has agreed a R12.5-million, initial ten-year academic partnership with gold mining major AngloGold Ashanti,... 

Australia-listed Elementos has signed a nonbinding term sheet to obtain an option for up to a 50% interest in Iberian Smelting, owner of a tin smelting and refining facility near Robledallano,... 

The concern that South Africa’s Reserve Bank expressed last week on the state of this country’s public markets is seen as a welcome development by AmaranthCX director and public market promoter... 

The first call applications for the R400-million junior mining exploration fund (JMEF) close on July 12. This was stated on Tuesday in a media release issued by the Department of Mineral Resources... 

When hydropower was being developed for South Africa’s gold-mining industry, the industry was going through a tough time and the research organisation of the day, the Chamber of Mines Research... 

Green hydrogen must be made cheap enough to decarbonise optimally at a time when the delay in emission reduction needs to be reversed if the world is to hit net zero by 2050. A range of factors... 

International lawyers representing the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Wednesday new evidence gathered from whistleblowers indicates that Apple is sourcing minerals from... 

There were expressions of excitement at the South Africa’s Junior Indaba on Tuesday when attendees at the important mining event learnt of the signing of the service-level agreement (SLA) for South... 

A majority of African economies, or 83%, are highly commodity-dependent and are vulnerable to external shocks, experiencing good growth when commodity prices are high, but seeing growth reversal... 

A collective effort was apparent on Friday when Minerals Council South Africa, the Council for Geoscience and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) spoke on the same platform to promote a... 

The Democratic Republic of Congo called for an international embargo of metal exports from neighboring Rwanda, whose government it accuses of using rebel groups to steal its natural resources. All...