Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.
This week:
Bakubung is ‘absolutely viable’ despite a challenging market.
Angloplat’s Chris Griffith says business has a right to profit.
And, a Northern Cape iron-ore drilling campaign is at an advanced stage.
JSE-listed Wesiswe Platinum’s new COO Paul Smith said he had confidence in the viability of the company’s flagship Bakubung platinum project, in the North West province, despite the volatile nature of South Africa’s platinum sector.
Wesizwe Platinum COO Paul Smith
Anglo American Platinum CEO Chris Griffith told Mining Weekly Online in a video interview that, while he acknowledges the pressures on government and labour, a private business should be allowed to operate in a manner that would allow it to realise a profit.
Anglo American Platinum CEO Chris Griffith
Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa is moving ahead with iron-ore exploration on three Northern Cape farms in the coming few months and expects to be in a position to provide a reserve estimate in the coming months.
ArcelorMittal South Africa CEO Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita
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