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Emerging Canadian iron-ore producer Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines expects to declare commercial production at its Bloom Lake mine, in Quebec, by April this year, and should have the results of a study on doubling production a month later, CEO...
Gas-to-liquids (GTL) producer Sasol has applied to explore for shale gas in the Karoo, together with Chesapeake Energy and Statoil ASA.
The application is for an onshore right to search for the natural shale-based gas, which has already caused...
Coal miner Sasol has allocated R3,1-billion for the new export coal mine to replace the depleting Twisdraai operation.
The Thubelisha export coal mine, already under construction, will also supply Sasol's synfuels factory in Secunda, in...
Vancouver-based Aurizon Mines still plans to complete a feasibility study on its Joanna project in Quebec by the end of this year, which could set it up to pour the first gold at the mine around mid-2012, CEO David Hall said on Sunday.
Aurizon...
The fact that there are just 69 mining companies listed on the JSE, compared with thousands on the TSX and TSX Venture Exchange is "a bit embarrassing”, JSE business development and marketing director Noah Greenhill commented in Toronto on...
South Africa will not adopt a policy of nationalisation of mines, the country's Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu asserted in Toronto on Saturday.
There is also no intention to introduce “stringent measures” as part of the review of...
Equinox Minerals, which owns the Lumwana copper mine in Zambia, plans to seek funding and offtake deals for its uranium project and will also consider acquiring a second copper project or mine, CEO Craig Williams said on Friday.
Uranium ore is...
The R462-million cash mining profit of the JSE-listed Metorex indicates the growing strength of the formerly troubled diversified mining company.
"We've got through most of the woods," Metorex CEO Terence Goodlace told Mining Weekly Online in a...
Vertically-integrated steel and vanadium producer Highveld was considering developing its Mapochs iron-ore mine into an "independent mining play", potentially releasing it to sell production to customers other than its Mpumalanga-based steel plant...
Creative communications company Unplugged has developed a safety campaign for mining companies using venomous snakes as a metaphor for safety hazards in the workplace. Unplugged creative director Rick Melvill tells Mining Weekly that the company...
JSE-listed platinum miner Northam was likely to go to the market to finance the proposed R3-billion 1 200-employee Booysendal platinum mine in Mpumalanga province, its CEO Glyn Lewis said on Tuesday.
Lewis said in reply to mining analyst Nic...
