Minerals Council welcomes call to rebuild the South African economy . Industry body the Minerals Council South Africa has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address this week announcing the further lifting of restrictions with the shift in the country’s Covid-19 status...

Mining well placed to maintain healthy profits despite pandemic impacts, says Stanlib . Asset manager Stanlib says the scars from a blow-out of corporate bond yields and indebted miners finding themselves on the brink of collapse have ultimately introduced good balance sheet and operation...

Bullish sentiment about PGMs sector’s immediate outlook, long-term potential . Speakers at the September 9 virtual 2020 PGMs Industry Day, hosted against the backdrop of historically high prices for certain platinum-group metals (PGMs), seemed cautiously optimistic about the imme...

WEF White Paper highlights human rights fragility in DRC's artisanal mining sector . Human rights abuses associated with artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) 'Making Mining Safe and Fair: Artisanal cobal...

Report says mining industry has ‘huge SDG potential’, but laments lack of action . The mining industry, which has a significant role to play in contributing to and achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is falling short, according to a new report by the Re...

Egoli likely to be S Africa’s least complicated underground gold mine – Pan African . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – What is expected to be South Africa’s least complicated underground gold mine is on the way at Evander, Mpumalanga, in the form of the Egoli gold project.

Planning t...

Pan African proposes record final dividend as headline earnings surge . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Gold mining company Pan African on Wednesday proposed a record final dividend after headline earnings surged 93% and net cash generated by operating activities rose by...

Great opportunity to lock in higher gold price for future – Harmony . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The current gold price presents a great opportunity to lock in the higher price for the future, says Harmony Gold FD Boipelo Lekubo, against the backdrop of Harmony’s ...

Solar to provide most of gold plants’ daytime power – Pan African . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The 10 MW solar electricity plant that Pan African Resources will construct on site at its Elikhulu gold-from-tailings plant next year at a cost of R50-million will ta...

Court order affords interested, affected persons automatic access to mining right applications . The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has welcomed an order handed down by the High Court in Pretoria related to access to information and how it may be obtained.

The court declared t...