THE continuing grim conditions in the global diamond business have claimed another South African victim in the form of Petra Diamond’s Finsch mine in the Northern Cape which is being put into business ...

CONSULTANCY firm Alvarez & Marsal has opened its first African office in Cape Town, targeting a continent attracting growing ...

AFTER months of uncertainty, the threat of job losses has been lifted from employees at the ferrochrome smelters of Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture. This was after South Africa’s energy regulator Nersa ...

AFRIMAT CEO Andries van Heerden is optimistic that the business will look significantly better by the end of the financial year Afrimat has just had its toughest year since 2008: everything that could ...

GIYANI Metals said on Thursday a proposed $535m manganese project in Botswana had “strong economics” ahead of progressing ...

THE Minerals Council South Africa on Wednesday expressed concerns about the country’s new minerals cadastre which is being ...

THE South African government could adopt a more investment-friendly attitude to mining and minerals reform if it helped repair trade relations with the US. This follows a high-level meeting between ...

RICHARDS Bay Minerals (RBM) said on Tuesday MD Werner Duvenhage was to leave the company at the end of July. His departure, ...

ZAMBIA’S state-controlled ZCCM Investments Holdings has agreed to sell a 55% stake in Ndola Lime to privately held Chinese conglomerate Wonderful Group of Companies for $25m, with the buyer also ...

LONDON-based venture capital firm Transition Ventures has closed a $150m fund targeting power infrastructure, artificial ...

BLACKROCK supports further mergers among large mining companies, arguing that greater scale would attract generalist ...