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Menar restates national-interest coal offer to Eskom . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Resources holding company Menar has reiterated its national-interest-serving coal offer to troubled State-owned power utility Eskom, which last week warned that its re...

Edenville warns of capital constraints, operational delays . Aim-listed Edenville Energy has reported operational delays, owing to working capital constraints and the start of the rainy season in November, in Tanzania, where the company is developing the Rukwa c...

Lucara to make underground mining decision in latter half of 2020 . North America-headquartered miner Lucara Diamond Corporation expects to recover between 370 000 ct and 410 000 ct of diamonds from its Karowe mine, in Botswana, in 2020.

The company on Friday provide...

Focus turns to water ice extraction as attempts to source minerals from space take back seat . Incredible as it might seem, one can, without too much exaggeration, argue that the space mining sector has already gone through its first boom-and-bust cycle.

Of course, it was, by the standards of ...

Tharisa retains focus on delivering on its production strategy . The financial year ended September 30, saw platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome miner Tharisa position itself to deliver on its strategy to increase production of both PGMs and chrome concentrates f...

Strides made in mine safety, but more should be done – DMRE official . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Although strides have been made in reducing mine fatalities, occupational diseases and industry disasters, there is still work to be done in the mining industry’s ques...

Resgen hoping to update market soon on Boikarabelo funding . While coal mine developer Resource Generation (Resgen) has made significant progress in finalising a set of common terms with the proposed lenders for the project finance required to build its Boikarab...

Vale to shutter Mozambique coal operations for three months . MAPUTO – Vale, the Brazilian mining giant, plans to place its Mozambican coal operations on maintenance for three months, essentially closing the tap on about one-third of the southeast African country...

Exxaro records mixed performance in year-to-date . A slowdown in global economic growth, supply-side disruptions, escalating US-China trade tensions and energy transition themes have, in the year-to-date, all impacted on the commodities that diversifie...

Ivanhoe says talks with DRC ‘extremely productive’ . The management team of Canada-headquartered Ivanhoe Mines met with high-ranking Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government officials in Kinshasa on Monday and has described its meeting as “highly pr...