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Paladin moves to close Namibian uranium mine

ASX-listed Paladin Energy has announced plans to put its Namibia-based Langer Heinrich uranium mine (LHM) on care and maintenance, blaming “stubbornly” low uranium prices and…

RBPlat CFO Prinsloo resigns

After more than nine years with the company, Martin Prinsloo has resigned from his position as chief financial officer and executive director of Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat).…

Sale of massive stone ups Gem Diamonds Q1 diamond prices 48%

A strong demand for high-quality white rough diamonds from Gem Diamonds’ Letšeng mine, in Lesotho, increased the company’s average realised diamond price by 48% in the quarter…

**FILE** In this Nov. 30, 2007 file photo, backdrop by cooling towers of a power plant and chemical factory, miners shovel coal at a mine in Xiahuayuan county, north China’s Hebei province. China has raised electricity prices for the second time in two months to offset soaring coal prices blamed for shortages that threaten to […]

Exxaro to offload R5.7 bn stake in Tronox

Diversified miner Exxaro has indicated its intention to offload its 24% stake in mining and inorganic chemical business Tronox, saying it it will use the earnings from the…

Exxaro to build R100m road in Limpopo

Exxaro Resources and Roads Agency Limpopo (RAL) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the R100 million upgrade from gravel to tar of a 9.56-km stretch of road D2001 in…

Lonmin’s Rowland Shaft

Lonmin launches community grievance system

Lonmin has introduced a community grievance system in a bid to improve two-way communication and accelerate the resolution of grievances between itself and stakeholders of the…

Namibia to finalise mining laws by end-2018, says Minister

Namibia plans to finalise revisions to its mining act by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported this week. The comments were made by Mines Minister Tom Alweendo at a conference…

Goldplat delivers 6 966 oz gold in Q3 from African ops

Aim-listed listed gold producer Goldplat produced 6 966 ounces of gold and gold equivalents in the quarter ended 31 March, with operating profitability continuing at its South…

Amplats ups Q1 PGM production 8% to 1.2m oz

Anglo American Platinum (AmPlats) has lifted total platinum group metals (PGM) production for the quarter ended 31 March by 8% to 1.28 million ounces. Total platinum production…

Anglo American posts 4% uptick in Q1 output

Anglo American has reported a 4% increase in total production on a copper equivalent basis for the first quarter of 2018, compared with the first three months of 2017, the…

CFO Berlin joins Brown at MC Mining

Brenda Berlin has taken up the position of chief financial officer (CFO) of MC Mining, after resigning as Impala Platinum (Implats) group CFO in November last year. A chartered…

Rainfall delays first gold at Gold Fields’ Oz project

Gold Fields has pushed back the expected date for the first production of gold at its Gruyere gold project, in Western Australia, from March 2019 to June 2019, as a result of…

North Kivu, DRC

DRC miners move to reassure market over proposed mining code

Mining companies active in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say ongoing talks with the government over the country’s proposed new tax-heavy mining code are progressing…

Caledonia bullish on Zim following relaxation of ownership laws

Caledonia Mining has unveiled plans to bolster its gold portfolio in Zimbabwe and up its interest in the Blanket mine, after the relaxation of tight ownership laws in the…

Vast secures 23.75% stake in Zim-based Eureka mine

Aim-listed miner Vast Resources, with operating mines in Romania and Zimbabwe, has acquired a 95% interest in Delta Gold Zimbabwe from Alpha Resources and the Industrial…

De Beers launches app to halt trade of blood diamonds

Global diamond group De Beers has developed an app that will allow small-scale artisanal diamond miners in Sierra Leone prove that the diamonds they trade have been legally…

Lesotho to extend Gem Diamonds’ mine lease to 2034

The government of Lesotho has indicated its intention to renew London-listed Gem Diamond’s lease for the Letšeng mine until 2034. The current lease expires in 2024. The mining…

Firestone Diamonds battles weather at Lesotho mine

Lesotho-focused diamond producer Firestone Diamonds lifted diamond recoveries by 6.6% in the third quarter of the year to 192 604 carats, despite “challenging conditions” at the…

Q1 production slump part of the plan, says Shanta Gold

East Africa-focused gold producer Shanta Gold lowered gold production from 21 288 oz in the fourth quarter of 2017 to 17 663 oz in the first quarter of 2018, but assured the…

Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive officer of BHP Billiton Ltd., speaks at an event hosted by the Asia Society in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. BHP, the worlds biggest mining company, signaled it will expand in the shale oil and gas industry in the U.S., forecasting global commodity demand will jump 75 percent over […]

BHP Billiton drops FY copper, iron-ore guidance

Nine months into its financial year, diversified miner BHP Billiton has maintained its full-year production guidance for petroleum, metallurgical coal and energy coal, but warns…