Platinum demand investment reaps reward – Amplats. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The best lever to stimulate platinum demand is platinum jewellery promotion, which provides the best return “by a country mile", Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) CEO ...

Rio Tinto approves $463m Zulti South project to extend RBM's life. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Diversified miner Rio Tinto on Monday approved the construction of the $463-million Zulti South project − the next stage in the development of mineral sands producer R...

A Million Tons of Copper Is on the Way: It May Not Be Enough. SANTIAGO – Giant mines currently under construction will churn out an additional one-million tons of copper through 2023, but that won’t be enough to fully close an expected gap between supply and dema...

Transnet sets new weekly manganese record. State-owned Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) on Monday announced that it had achieved a new weekly throughput record of 335812 t of manganese, beating its previous record by 6362 t. The record was achi...

Universal considering second offer. PERTH (miningweekly.com) – South Africa-focused coal miner Universal Coal received a conditional, nonbinding indicative counter offer from JSE-listed Afrimat to rival a previous offer from a consortium...

Technical assessments launched after housing damage in Ogies. Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe says technical assessments will be undertaken in Ogies, Mpumalanga, to determine whether cracks in the Phola community’s houses have been as a result of three ...

Ethical investors ask miners to publish tailings dam details. LONDON – Ethical investors working on a global standard for tailings dams have written to 683 listed resource companies, including major miners, asking for information to be made public within 45 days ...

Research organisations look to technology to reverse deep-level mining decline. The outlook for South Africa’s deep-level mining sector over the next ten years is bleak should there be no drastic change in the way this type of mining is conducted, comments Mandela Mining Precinct ...

Global gold-backed ETF holdings grew incrementally in March – WGC. Holdings in global gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and similar products rose by 3 t in March, to 2483 t, equivalent to about $183-million in inflows, the World Gold Council (WGC) reported on ...

MMG joins Glencore, ERG in reviewing Congo plans after tax hike. KINSHASA – Yet another foreign miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo is reviewing its future production plans after the government increased taxes and removed investor safeguards despite industry p...