Andre Janse van Vuuren

Toronto-listed Afri-Can Diamonds, which digs for diamonds off Namibia’s coastline, is considering a secondary listing in Johannesburg.

Posting an otherwise dire quarterly update on operations, Gold One International says the scoping study of a proposed surface venture has shown promising results.

Lonmin has reined in capital expenditure for the next two years by another 23% as the company seeks to map its way forward following the events at Marikana.

UPDATED: Lonmin has proposed a rights issue of $800m, likely to take place before the end of the year, as part of a strategy to refinance its balance sheet.

Negotiatons on the establishment of a central bargaining platform for the platinum sector is losing momentum, says a union official, while Amcu refuses to return to talks.

Anglo American chairman John Parker will start a process to recruit a successor for CEO Cynthina Carroll.

Employees in the coal sector may soon stand to benefit from wage increases based on job grade adjustments, similar to those afforded to striking workers in the gold sector.

Anglo American Platinum has further reduced its planned capital expenditure for 2012 and expects unit costs to outstrip most of its margins.

ArcelorMittal SA is bracing itself for yet another legal skirmish with regulatory authorities, this time for allegedly breaching conditions attached to an air emission licence.

A research report by financial services firm JPMorgan Cazenove predicts sporadic strikes in South Africa’s mining industry may carry on for up to a year.

AngloGold Ashanti has finally issued its striking workforce an ultimatum to return to work, close to a month after all its SA operations were brought to a standstill.

South Africa’s state-owned miner, African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation, says it has met all its operational targets of 2012.

Striking employees at Village Main Reef’s marginal Blyvooruitzicht mine have returned to work following their acceptance of a wage hike proposal.

Striking workers have started to return to Gold Fields’ Beatrix mine in the Free State, the company says, recording attendance levels in excess of 80% at some shafts.

Striking mineworkers and their employers in the gold sector are seemingly further apart than ever as formal wage discussions collapse.

Some of the damage caused by the spate of strikes across the mining industry is already permanent, warns Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland.

A striking workforce is not the only challenge Village Main Reef faces at its recently acquired Blyvoor mine.

The Chamber of Mines has agreed to give striking workers in the gold industry more time to consider employers’ wage increase proposals.

The National Union of Mineworkers will be desperate to regain some lost credibility when it presents the Chamber of Mines’ new wage offer to striking workers in the gold sector.

Employers in the gold mining sector have tabled new wage hike proposals, but the offer is conditional on all striking employees returning to work by Thursday evening.