Potash development company Kore Potash has announced the appointment of JM André Baya as CEO, effective from April 15. The position is a non-board role. The company owns a 97% stake in the Kola and DX potash projects in the Sintoukola Basin in Congo-Brazzaville. 

The need to reduce global carbon emissions, to counter climate change, has transformed the public image of the mining industry, because of the urgent need to ramp-up the production of clean energy metals. So highlighted International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) CEO Rohitesh Dhawan,... 

Nonprofit women in mining lobby organisation Women in Mining South Africa (WiMSA) will exhibit as a strategic partner with Women in Mining UK at this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba – to be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from February 5 to 8. WiMSA aims to use the... 

Rio Tinto will make a A$40.4-million investment in Sovereign Metals in exchange for a 15% initial shareholding in the critical minerals developer. 

A former mining project manager has been ordered to pay a hefty fine, or face time in prison, after he pleaded guilty to one corruption charge in connection with an R80 million tender. According to Hawks spokesperson Colonel Philani Nkwalase, Wade Ashton Leaf, 57, was fined R100 000 or five years... 

Sovereign Metals has started a graphite bulk sample programme for qualification, downstream testwork and product development purposes. 

Sovereign Metals is progressing with a prefeasibility study. 

With the local and global mining industries still reeling from tailings dam failures in recent years, the solutions cited for more responsible tailings management are collaboration, consistent monitoring and safety prioritisation over production, besides others. Tailings retreatment and gold... 

With the local and global mining industries still reeling from tailings dam failures in recent years, the solutions cited for more responsible tailings management are collaboration, consistent monitoring and safety prioritisation over production, besides others. Tailings retreatment and gold... 

With the volume of tailings deposits globally increasing at a faster rate than it did in the last century, it has become prudent for mining companies to ensure minimal risks to surrounding environments and communities, including through constant collaborative innovation and meaningful community... 

Ever since the Brumadinho tailings dam collapse, in Brazil, in 2019, which claimed the lives of 270 people and led to massive environmental damage, there has been a spotlight on how mining companies manage and monitor tailings storage facilities (TSFs). Discussing the most common causes of... 

The Minerals Council South Africa and its members have joined hands with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Gender-based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) Response Fund to support gender-based violence (GBV) response centres in mining communities. This comes as the country is... 

Sovereign Metals has started offtake talks with titanium dioxide pigment producer The Chemours Company. 

The expanded scoping study envisages a 25-year operation during which time rutile and graphite will be produced during two stages. 

Nonprofit organisation (NPO) Women in Mining South Africa (WiMSA) is embarking on initiatives to progress and develop women working in the mining industry. WiMSA is the only NPO in South Africa that enables women in the industry to network with one another; it offers opportunities for mentoring... 

Diversified global engineering, project delivery and operations management group DRA Global’s subsidiary DRA Projects and mining services company Fraser Alexander have reached a settlement in respect of all claims between the parties, prior to the start of an arbitration hearing related to the... 

Sovereign Metals has struck a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with Japanese trader Mitsui & Co to establish a marketing alliance and offtake for 30 000 t/y of natural rutile from the project. 

Sovereign Metals has received analysis of the Kasiya rutile project's graphite co-product, one of the critical raw materials contained in the Kasiya deposit. 

Sovereign Metals has taken what it deems proactive steps to establish an environment, social and governance framework that will position it as an industry leader on corporate social responsibility in Malawi, where it is developing the Kasiya rutile project. 

Sovereign Metals has entered into a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with global rutile product distributor Hascor International to potentially supply it with rutile from the Kasiya rutile project.