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Acquisitions on the backburner for Implats after C$1bn Canada buy . South Africa-based platinum group metals (PGMs) major Impala Platinum (Implats) CEO Nico Muller has ruled out any near-term merger and acquisition activity and has said the group will instead reinvest ...

Harmony hoping to re-engage PNG ‘at earliest opportunity’ . Gold miner Harmony is keen to re-engage the Papua New Guinea negotiating team “at the earliest opportunity” to secure a special mining lease (SML) for the Wafi-Golpu gold/copper project, which it owns ...

AngloGold reinstates guidance on growing certainty . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti on Monday reinstated annual guidance on improved operating certainty amid the Covid-19 pandemic and in anticipation of the conclu...

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.

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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...