DMRE to intensify inspections in final months of the year . The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has urged mining companies to put more focus on the health and safety of mineworkers during the final few months of the year, noting that fatalitie...

New venture capital incubation fund targeting small-scale mining space . Venture capital incubation fund initiator Pearl Gray Equity Partners is targeting South Africa’s small-scale gold mining space.

Pearl Gray, a reform of the Gray Family trust created in the late 1990s...

Mining operations to start soon at Menar’s East Manganese project . Mining investment firm Menar’s first manganese asset, East Manganese, in the Northern Cape, has been granted a mining right and water-use license, which the firm says paves the way for mining operation...

Tshiamiso Trust appoints inaugural CEO . The trustees of the Tshiamiso Trust have appointed Daniel Kotton as CEO.

This marks the organisation’s first appointment of permanent, full-time staff members, representing a milestone in the establi...

Environmental under-investment comes back to bite – Sir Mick Davis . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – If you under-invest in environmental impact, it will come back to bite you at some time in the future, just like cutting back on development used to do in the old days...

PTM to raise $2.5m for Waterberg project development, other costs . Dual-listed Platinum Group Metals (PTM) intends to sell over 1.1-million common shares of the company to a major beneficial shareholder, Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI), at $2.18 a share, to rais...

Panthera aims for significant project development over next 12 months . UK-headquartered gold explorer and developer Panthera Resources reports that significant activity will soon start across its nine projects in West Africa, India and Germany, to help the junior miner ga...

GPS-denied drone trialled in South Africa, with keen eye on underground mine mapping . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) − Melrose Arch-based mining technology company Dwyka Mining Services has conducted what it believes is the first Autonomy Level 2 (AL2) flight in South Africa, using a n...

Mining investors must convince investors on the need to replace value – Sir Mick Davis . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Major mining companies need to convince investors of the crucial need to replace the value that they are taking out of the ground, mining luminary Sir Mick Davis said ...

Barrick CEO warns of reserve crisis . JOHANNESBURG/TORONTO – Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow on Wednesday said the gold industry in Africa should consolidate further, as he warned of a "serious reserve crisis" looming for the sector.

A dea...