South African gold sector far from 'dead', despite dwindling output. Although South Africa is now Africa's second-largest gold producer, after Ghana, its gold mining industry still accounts for more than 21% of the continent's total mined gold production, precious metal...

Concerted effort needed to arrest decline in South Africa's gold, platinum output - Dixon. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - Gold and platinum mines in South Africa exemplify the Albert Einstein quote on insanity, consulting engineer and industry expert Roger Dixon noted at an African Mining...

Mgojo confident Exxaro will meet full-year coal production targets. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Exxaro Resources CEO Mxolisi Mgojo is not “too worried” about the expected 5% decline in the miner's coal production for the first half of this year, as he expects the...

Blyvoor to begin producing gold again from Q4 – Skeat. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Gold mining is expected to resume at the old Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine in the next two to three months, Blyvoor Gold executive chairperson Peter Skeat has told Mining ...

Vedanta granted stay on sale of KCM assets. Diversified miner Vedanta Resources says Lusaka High Court presiding judge Justice Annes Banda-Bobo on Wednesday granted it an order to stay the powers of the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) provisional liq...

Jupiter pays special dividend, commissions extra equipment to meet guidance. ASX-listed Jupiter Mines on Thursday announced in its report for the quarter ended May 31 that it would pay a special dividend of 1.15-billion rand to its shareholders at the end of June. This will be in ...

Resolute reaches commercial milestone at Syama. PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Gold miner Resolute Mining has achieved commercial production at its Syama underground mine, in Mali. Ore production from the underground mine has achieved more than 80% of ...

Northam to restart operations at Eland's fully funded Kukama shaft. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Platinum group metals (PGM) mining and marketing company Northam Platinum on Wednesday announced the company's decision to recommence operations in the new 2020 financ...

‘Platinum Valley' SEZ in three months – Patel. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The legal entity for the Bojanala Platinum Valley Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in North West, which already has an investment pipeline in place, will be set up in the n...

Acacia fails to change Barrick's view on mine plans. London-listed gold miner Acacia Mining's near-5000-word rebuttal on Monday of claims by its parent company over mine plans for its gold operations in Tanzania has failed to change Barrick Gold's view....