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Vedanta warns it may have to process ore outside South Africa . LONDON – Vedanta, one of South Africa's biggest international investors, will process its zinc ore elsewhere unless the country can fix its power problems, the CEO of Vedanta unit Vedanta Zinc Internat...

Wescoal confident it is on the road to recovery, despite 'disappointing' results . South African coal miner Wescoal on Tuesday reported its performance for the first half of the 2019/20 financial year (April-September). While, in comparison the previous six months, revenues stayed st...

Southern Africa urged to capitalise on its PGM resources . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) on Monday launched its latest research report on platinum group metals (PGMs), titled ‘A South African PGM E...

Anglo American joins ResponsibleSteel initiative . Diversified miner Anglo American has become a member of ResponsibleSteel, a nonprofit organisation and the steel industry's first global, multi-stakeholder standard and certification programme.

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Clear investment case for platinum – Northam . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The current low price of platinum gives the metal a clear investment case, says Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne.

“Platinum is currently very, very cheap on a relativ...

Platinum catch-22 prevents miners tapping world’s hottest metals . JOHANNESBURG – South African miners face a conundrum: increasing palladium and rhodium output to take advantage of soaring prices risks depressing the already fragile market for sister metal platinum. ...

KP plenary fails to reach consensus on strengthened scope . The World Diamond Council (WDC) says governments have failed to reach consensus on a strengthened scope for the Kimberley Process (KP) during the this year’s KP plenary meeting, which was held in India...

Recent disasters thrust tailings dam management to the fore . The tailings storage facility (TSF) failures at Mount Polley, in Canada, and at San Marco and Brumadinho, in Brazil, have altered how tailings engineering, construction and operations will be undertake...

Ity's CIL plant successfully expanded . TSX-listed Endeavour Mining has completed the expansion of the capacity of the carbon-in-leach (CIL) plant at its Ity mine, in Côte d’Ivoire, to five-million tonnes a year.

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R7bn Limpopo coal project a step closer as ResGen, Transnet ink logistics deal . State-owned freight logistics group Transnet signed a ten-year take-or-pay coal transport agreement with Resource Generation (ResGen) subsidiary Ledjadja Coal on Thursday, improving prospects for the d...