Increased continued loan support for Orion confirmed . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Private equity group Tembo Capital Mining Fund II LP on Monday confirmed its increased continued support of Orion Minerals through a loan facility boost.

The Sydney-...

Intensive communication playing key role in curbing Covid at South Deep . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Way ahead of any indication of national lockdown, South Deep gold mine started an intensive and focused communication awareness campaign to shield its people from the ...

Weir Minerals South Africa inks empowerment transaction with Medu Capital . Mineral solutions provider Weir Minerals Africa’s (WMA’s) South African operation, Weir Minerals South Africa (SA), is now 25.1% owned by black empowerment partner Medu Capital.

Through the partnersh...

Location has become the existential investment criteria for gold, says Kaplan . The frontier spirit that sent gold investors into riskier hunting grounds is a bygone era and investors are “coming back home”, to jurisdictions where the rule of law is not a novelty, says US business...

SA Inc must act now to take ownership of battery metals value chain – Bushveld . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) ­– Bold action is needed by South Africa Inc to take ownership of the significant potential share of the global battery metals market open to it, says Bushveld Minerals ...

Anglo American calls for cooperative response in trying times . Diversified miner Anglo American CE Mark Cutifani has called for a society-wide response to the global Covid-19 crisis and says the miner is committed to global tax and the Extractive Industries Transp...

Lesotho opens more border posts for return of foreign mineworkers . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Lesotho has opened up more border posts to speed up the return to work of locked-down foreign mineworkers.

As reported by Mining Weekly, 12 000 mineworkers had one b...

Six mineworkers die from Covid-19 – Minerals Council . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Six mineworkers have succumbed to coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, Minerals Council South Africa said on Thursday.

Back at work so far and screened daily...

Deep sea mining could destroy undiscovered species, says Ocean Panel . JOHANNESBURG – Mining on the sea floor should not begin before a full assessment of likely environmental impacts can be made, a report commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Econo...

Implats remains bullish about progress in a post-Covid-19 world . South African miner Impala Platinum (Implats) expects to face increasing challenges to its medical preparedness and operational resilience as the Covid-19 pandemic progresses in the coming months.

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