The day South32 put M&A firmly back on the industry’s radar
SOUTH32's $1.3bn cash offer for Arizona Mining, a base metals exploration firm, feels like a significant moment for the Perth-listed company which, no matter...
Harmony’s in race against time as suns sets over SA gold
HARMONY Gold CEO, Peter Steenkamp, has done better than many believed possible since he took over the troubled gold group in January 2016 with...
Does South Deep crisis close our eyes to the good in...
THE enigma concerning Gold Fields is this: how come a group with roots going back a century in deep-level gold mining in South Africa...
Rustenburg is a tightrope that must be traversed: Implats’ Muller
This article first appeared in The Mining Yearbook 2018 distributed through Finweek on August 9, but written a month before. The article has been...
Exxaro weighing survival as global energy debate rolls on
MXOLISI Mgojo acknowledges the need to put his "own stamp" on Exxaro Resources, the coal, mineral sands, and iron ore company to which he...
Pan African content with surface to underground gold mix
A TOUGH operational year that saw gold production by Pan African Resources (Panaf) retreat by 4.4% to 173 000 oz has seemingly driven a...
Venkat optimism dimmed as AngloGold SA mines face “the inevitable”
TWO years ago – when interviewed for the 2015 Miningmx yearbook – AngloGold Ashanti CEO Srinivasan 'Venkat' Venkatakrishnan hit all the right optimistic notes...
SepFluor bets R1.7bn on notoriously difficult fluorspar
"WHAT have these guys been smoking and where can I get some?" has been the default reaction to the news that Sephaku Fluoride (SepFluor)...
CER ups ante with new court challenge against coal-fired power
BUOYED by a landmark judgment that halted the construction of a new coal-fired power station in Limpopo earlier this year, the Centre for Environmental...
Cleaver aims to return De Beers to new mine development
DE BEERS is reviewing its approach to the development of smaller mining projects as the diamond giant considers its future strategy in a situation...