South32 eyes options for manganese alloy ops. KALGOORLIE (miningweekly.com) - Diversified miner South32 has flagged the possible closure or divestment of its manganese alloy operations in South Africa and Australia. Speaking at Diggers and Dealer...

Govt initiates fresh look at South Africa's carbon-emission yardsticks. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs on Friday placed an advertisement for service providers to take a fresh look at this country's greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

New owner Real Win Investments to reopen Lily, Barbrook mines. In a vote of confidence for the distressed Barberton mining industry, Real Win Investments (RWI) has confirmed to Mining Weekly Online that Vantage Goldfields has accepted its conditional offer to acqu...

EIUG calls for overhaul of power-tariff regime for large industrial firms. The Energy Intensive Users Group of Southern Africa (EIUG) is calling for urgent consideration to be given to the development of industrial tariffs for large power users, in the light of the threat bei...

Saki Macozoma's Safika enters Orion's Prieska project fray. PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Dual-listed Orion Minerals has welcomed a new black economic empowerment (BEE) member to its BEE partner company Prieska Resources. Safika Resources, headed by Saki Macozoma...

Pressure needs to be applied to platinum mining industry to go green, conference hears. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - The need for pressure to be applied to the platinum mining industry to go "green" was expressed at the recent Nedbank CIB Mark Research Conference on fuel cells in Cap...

Global gold demand grew 8% in second quarter. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - Global gold demand grew to 1123 t during the second quarter, representing an increase of 8% year-on-year, the World Gold Council's (WGC's) most recent 'Gold Demands T...

Tharisa board approves 780 million rand Vulcan chrome project. Dual-listed Tharisa Mining's board has approved a $54.2-million project (about 780-million) rand that will increase chrome recovery and add 400000 t/y of chrome to the company's production from its chrome...

Full commercial production from newly opened Nokeng expected later this month. RUST DE WINTER (miningweekly.com) - The 1.7-billion rand Nokeng fluorspar mine, which unlisted fluorspar developer Sepfluor has built north-east of Pretoria, in Gauteng, was officially opened on Thursday. ...

Vedanta Resources launches arbitration in dispute with Zambia. JOHANNESBURG - Vedanta Resources said on Wednesday it had notified its Zambian joint venture partner ZCCM-IH that it had launched arbitration proceedings related to an attempt by the Zambian government...