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South Africa's recession deepens in first quarter as mining plummets . South Africa's recession deepened in the first quarter of 2020, with official data on Tuesday showing that gross domestic product contracted 2% from the previous three months, led by declines in mining...

Pleasantly surprised by productivity during lockdown – Babcock Ntuthuko Engineering . Engineering company Babcock Ntuthuko Engineering has been pleasantly surprised by the productivity and agility that the lockdown has afforded it as an engineering house engaged in the energy sector.

Fairtree takes 5%-plus of Harmony Gold . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South African investment management company Fairtree Asset Management now holds more than 5% of the ordinary shares of gold mining company Harmony Gold, the company st...

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...