Kalagadi Manganese welcomes court ruling . >>>>>>>>>>> Following the initiation by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of business rescue proceedings against Kalagadi Manganese, the miner reports that it welcomes a court ruling that th...

New natural diamond council launched . >>>>>>>>>>> JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A natural diamond is made from carbon and is the hardest natural known substance on earth. Natural diamonds are created over a period of one- to three-bill...

New solution for monitoring tailings dams . >>>>>>>>>>> JOHANNESURG (miningweekly.com) – The tragic tailings dam breach in Brazil that killed more than 270 people has focused the world of mining on making tailings dams safe.

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Petra Diamonds experiences Covid-19-influenced drop in diamond sales . Driven by significantly reduced diamond prices, especially in its March tender, diamond miner Petra Diamonds reports a drop in revenue of 32% year-on-year to $91.3-million for the third quarter of the ...

Kropz plans to raise additional $4.3m, backed by ARC . Aim-listed emerging phosphate producer Kropz has raised about $350 000 by way of an equity placing with chairperson Robin Renwick and interim CEO Mark Summers at a price of 6.75p an ordinary share.

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New Finnish copper technology for Democratic Republic of Congo . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – New copper solvent extraction technology is to be delivered to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by Finnish mining technology company Outotec.

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Minister urges mines to test without fear of mine closure . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe on Friday urged mines to test for Covid-19 to the full extent without fearing mine closure.

The Minister was res...

Mining industry well prepared to tackle Covid-19 with new, existing protocols . The South African mining industry is, generally, well prepared to deal with the return to work of a large percentage of staff as lockdown Alert Levels move from Level 4 to Level 3 on June 1, reports th...

South Africa’s biggest emitters to be exposed to public scrutiny . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) ­– South Africa’s emission levels are as high as those of the eight-times-larger UK economy, EDS Systems business development head Eckart Zollner pointed out on Friday, ...

51 Sibanye employees test positive for Covid-19 . JSE- and NYSE-listed gold and platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Sibanye-Stillwater has confirmed that 51 employees from the Thembelani shaft, at its Rustenburg PGM operations, have tested positive for...