Minister publishes amendments to financial provisioning regulations for mine closure. Environmental Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has gazetted additional amendments to the Financial Provisioning Regulations for the rehabilitation and remediation of environmental damage caused by ex...

BBBEE Commission says most broad-based schemes failing ‘ownership test’. The regulatory body overseeing the implementation of South Africa’s broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) legislation has dismissed suggestions that changes have been made to the rules governi...

Zambian court appoints provisional liquidator of Vedanta's KCM. LUSAKA – Zambia's High Court on Tuesday appointed a legal firm as a provisional liquidator of Vedanta-controlled Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), according to a court document seen by Reuters. The docume...

Sibanye keeps option to increase Lonmin offer against rival bid. Sibanye Gold reiterated that its increased offer for Lonmin Plc is final, but kept its option open to sweeten the deal for the platinum producer should a rival bid emerge. While its current offer “i...

Amplats dismisses half of Mototolo’s underground employees amid unprotected strike. Platinum miner Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), headed by Chris Griffith, has dismissed half of the Mototolo mine’s underground employees amid an unprotected strike, but has given the dismissed emplo...

Researchers see manganese helping fuel cells down cost curve. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A new manganese-containing material may contribute to platinum-using hydrogen fuel cells being driven down the cost curve. The new material, made from manganese hyd...

Zambian President threatens Glencore, Vedanta with 'divorce'. MAPUTO – Zambian President Edgar Lungu threatened to “divorce” the domestic copper units of Vedanta Resources and Glencore after the companies said they’d curb operations in the Southern African nation...

Tailings operations contribute to more than 50% increase in Pan African’s output. Aim- and JSE-listed Pan African Resources has reported solid gold production from its Elikhulu project for the nine months ended March 31, making up for its Evander project’s lossmaking underground ope...

Sibanye, Lonmin merger enters final stretch as AMCU appeal is dismissed. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The Competition Appeal Court of South Africa (CACSA) on Friday gave the green light for JSE- and NYSE-listed Sibanye-Stillwater’s proposed takeover of LSE- and JSE-lis...

Northam Platinum plans to buy back preference shares. LONDON - Northam Platinum plans to buy back about 15-million preference shares out of 159-million currently in issue in the financial year ending June 2020, its chief executive said on Wednesday. Th...