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Good progress on converter plant repair – Amplats . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining and marketing company Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Thursday that repairs to its Anglo Converter Plant (ACP) Phase B th...

South African diamond production up 97% – Anglo . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Diamond production in South Africa increased by 97% to 0.8-million carats as the final ore from the opencast Venetia mine in Limpopo is mined prior to transitioning to...

Post-Covid delivery of crane for colliery’s dragline excavator . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A contract won by Witbank company GTB Industrial Services will see Condra manufacturing a technically complex crane to service an Mpumalanga colliery’s dragline excava...

Sibanye-Stillwater releases suite of reports, will hold virtual AGM . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater on Wednesday released its annual suite of reports and said that its annual general meeting (AGM) would be held entire...

Glencore to take Katanga Mining private . Multinational commodities trader and miner Glencore will take Katanga Mining private, the TSX-listed subsidiary, which has operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), announced on Wednesday. ...

Now Wescoal receives Eskom force majeure . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Coal mining and marketing company Wescoal on Tuesday became the second JSE-listed coal-mining company to report that it had received a force majeure notification from ...

Gem confident of rapid ramp-up of Lesotho diamond mine . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Diamond mining company Gem expressed confidence on Tuesday that its Letšeng operation in Lesotho would be able to ramp up to full production rapidly once the Covid-19...

Anglo, De Beers announce additional $3m donations for Covid relief . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Anglo American and De Beers on Monday announced additional donations of $2-million to South Africa’s Solidarity Fund, which addresses the impacts of Covid-19, and $1-m...

Hillside Aluminium achieves record saleable production ­– South32 . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Despite the impact on production of load-shedding, the Hillside Aluminium in KwaZulu-Natal achieved record saleable production output of 540 000 t in the nine months e...

Jubilee operations restart under strict Covid-19 protocols . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Metals processing company Jubilee Metals announced on Friday that its South African operations had recommenced and it was strictly adhering to the updated lockdown reg...