Bauba’s new chrome wash plant reaches targeted throughput level. Platinum and chrome explorer and producer Bauba Platinum’s new wash plant at the Moeijelijk chrome mine, in Limpopo, is producing at its planned throughput levels, boding well for the company to improv...

Merafe declares record dividend on lower profit, higher output. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) ­– Chrome and ferrochrome company Merafe, which on Monday reported lower profit on higher production, has declared a record dividend that represents a distribution of 51...

Barrick and Newmont end hostility with Nevada JV agreement. Canadian gold major Barrick Gold has ended its hostile takeover offer for US miner Newmont Mining and instead agreed to create a joint venture (JV) combining their respective mining operations, assets ...

Acacia designing new TSF at North Mara to prevent spillage into environment. Gold miner Acacia Mining on Friday assured its shareholders that it was working on a solution to prevent the further spillage of water from a polishing pond at its North Mara mine, in Tanzania, into th...

Tanzania orders cleanup at Acacia gold mine, threatens closure. DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzania has given Acacia Mining up to March 30 to stop waste water pollution at North Mara gold mine or face a shutdown, its mining minister said. Doto Biteko, said he had issued th...

New platinum play in Zimbabwe gains momentum. Work is progressing on a 23 903 ha concession area on Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke – a geological feature boasting the world’s second-largest platinum-group metals ((PGMs) resources – where Cyprus-based Karo ...

Negotiations to acquire Universal ongoing – Wescoal. JSE-listed Wescoal on Thursday said negotiations regarding a potential buyout of Universal Coal by a consortium that Wescoal is a part of, were ongoing. “Negotiations regarding the conclusion of det...

Jogmec finalises 9.75% Waterberg project stake sale to Hanwa. TSX- and NYSE-listed Platinum Group Metals (PTM) on Thursday reported that Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (Jogmec) has completed the transfer of a 9.75% interest in the Waterberg pallad...

Upper ore breakthrough boosts Implats’ Zimbabwe resource base. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The development of an effective method of mining upper ores, which have in the past been excluded from stoping plans, has increased the resource base of the Bimha and ...

Platinum market to remain in surplus despite expected rise in demand – WPIC. Global platinum demand is expected to increase by 5% to 7.7-million ounces this year, owing to a significant increase in investment demand, which should offset weaker demand in the automotive, jeweller...