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 ...

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

GIYANI Metals said on Thursday a proposed $535m manganese project in Botswana had “strong economics” ahead of progressing talks with strategic partners. A definitive feasibility study published today ...

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 ...

WATER supply disruptions are emerging as a significant threat to South Africa’s mining sector, with bulk supply in multiple ...

GHANA’S government has committed to renewing the mining lease for Gold Fields’ Tarkwa operation but has ruled out an ...

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

GUINEA is to announce reforms next month aimed at restricting exports of bauxite, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOUTH Africa cannot build a downstream metals industry until the problem of high electricity prices is resolved, mines ...