Forging ahead despite bureaucratic hurdles

South African project management and engineering company DRA Mineral Projects reports that, despite the company’s continued involvement in Zimbabwe’s only three working platinum mines - Unki, Mimosa and Ngezi - operating in Zimbabwe is...

NUM threatens wage strike at Northam

South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers on Tuesday threatened industrial action at Northam Platinum if its 15% wage demand was not met. The union is also demanding a living allowance of R3 500, while the company is offering an 8% wage...

Illegal gold-mining syndicates smashed – Pan African

Police have arrested six of the seven gold-theft syndicate leaders that have been plaguing Barberton gold mines, London Aim- and JSE-listed Pan African CEO Jan Nelson told Mining Weekly Online on Tuesday. Nelson said that police were also in hot...

Angloplat appoints Gomwe as nonexec

Godfrey Gomwe has been appointed as a nonexecutive director of world number-one platinum-miner Anglo Platinum (Angloplat). His appointment to the Angloplat board would be affective from September 1.

Deal activity in South Africa's mining sector on the increase despite European sovereign debt crisis

Despite depressed global sentiment as a result of European sovereign debt, the South African resources sector continues to see a rise in deal activity, reports financial services provider Nedbank Capital.

Pilanesberg output rising, June-quarter sales rake in R114m

The Pilanesberg platinum mine (PPM), independent mid-tier platinum miner Platmin’s first platinum group metals (PGM) mining operation, is steadily continuing production build-up, the company announced earlier this month.

Strong rand ‘unceremoniously' erodes platinum basket – Implats

The strength of the South African rand kept the rand basket price for platinum group metals virtually unchanged in a 12-month period in which the dollar basket price rose 16%, platinum miner Implats said on Thursday. The dollar basket price was...

Platinum Group has deal for project surface rights, in 'active discussions'

Platinum Group Metals (PTM), which has said it will make a decision soon on whether to sell or build its South African platinum project, has locked in a right to buy the surface rights for the property, and has also made progress on securing power...