Top miners doing well, but not getting credit for it – PwC. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The world’s top 40 mining companies continued to consolidate their performance of the past several years by delivering steady growth in 2018, PwC’s ‘Mine 2019’ report,...

Junior Indaba panel finds sentiment in Charter towards juniors still lacks. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Opening the Junior Indaba, in Auckland Park, on Tuesday, chairperson Bernard Swanepoel questioned whether Mining Charter III had helped to kickstart exploration activi...

Junior mining badly in need of kickstart – Swanepoel. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Junior mining is badly in need of a policy framework that will kickstart activity, mining luminary Bernard Swanepoel said on Tuesday. Speaking to a packed 2019 Juni...

Orion takes steps to meet Mining Charter III ownership requirements. JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals has established community and employee trusts for its Prieska project, in the Northern Cape, to meet the ownership structure requirements set out in Mining Charter II...

Two down, one to go as Resgen advances funding talks. ASX- and JSE-listed Resource Generation (Resgen) on Monday said it had received credit approval from a second member of its proposed lending syndicate for the development of the Boikarabelo coal mine i...

Rejection of Barrick bid is 'no brainer', top Acacia investor says. LONDON – Fidelity International, one of the largest shareholders in Acacia Mining, said on Friday Barrick Gold's low bid to buy the Acacia shares it does not already own showed a lack of judgment and i...

Vedanta seeks international arbitration to settle Zambia dispute. NEW DELHI – Global mining conglomerate Vedanta Resources said on Friday it was seeking international arbitration over Zambia's appointment of a provisional liquidator to run the company's Konkola Coppe...

Commentators differ on whether recent price slide indicates palladium bubble has burst. Much price volatility is predicted for palladium – primarily an industrial metal for use in autocatalysts – over the next year, driven primarily by unpredictable trade sentiment as the US-China dispute...

Northam secures a further 1 billion rand in funding. JSE-listed Northam Platinum has increased its existing revolving credit facilities (RCF) by 500-million rand, from 3-billion rand to 3.5-billion; rand and has also secured a new 500-million rand general banking facili...

Labour issues at Mototolo platinum mine resolved – Amplats. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The labour issues at the Mototolo platinum mine in Limpopo have been resolved, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Thursday. The General Industrial Workers Un...