Mining explosives maker benefitting from gold boom

The surge of mining and exploration activity rampant gold prices have brought to north-eastern Ontario have proved a double-edged sword for small explosives firm Nordex, which is listed on the TSX-V. On the one hand, business has been brisk for...

Ezulwini mine, South Africa

The Ezulwini mine is an underground mine that has two separate tabular orebodies about 400 m apart.

The harsh early days of diamond mining in South Africa

From the time of antiquity diamonds have always been far more than jewels; they are history twinkling on the skin.

Australia-linked company to invest $50m 
in Zimbabwe coal project

A new joint venture (JV) between Australian and Zimbabwean investors has earmarked an initial $50-million for exploration and infrasrture development in the Southern African country’s Lowveld area, some 280 km south-east of Harare.

Uranium plant commissioning to enter final stages

Emerging uranium miner First Uranium is soon to enter the final stages of commissioning of its Ezulwini mine uranium plant and plans to commission the first two modules of the uranium plant at its Mine Waste Solution (MWS) tailings recovery...

Australian miners remain committed to Africa despite credit crunch - Harrap

Despite the global economic downturn, Australia’s confidence in the African resource sector remained strong, said Australian High Commissioner to South Africa Ann Harrap. Speaking to Mining Weekly Online Harrap stated that, currently, there...

Paladin resuscitates Malawi uranium project

Australian-based uranium miner Paladin Resources says major construction works for its uranium-mining project at Kayelekera, in northern Malawi, will start this month, despite a court order to halt the project obtained by nongovernmental...

SA Q2 gold output declined 7,5% y-on-y

South African mines produced 7,5% less gold in the second quarter of this year, when compared with the same period of 2006, the Chamber of Mines said on Monday.

Role of geologists key when mining at depth

The importance of planning and operating of mining with careful consideration of geology, particularly at greater depths, was emphasised by Northam Platinum chief geologist Damien Smith at the GeoForum conference held in Johannesburg last week.

African Diamonds announces interim diamond valuation from Orapa prospect

Aim-and Botswana-listed diamond explorer African Diamonds on Friday announced an interim diamond valuation on the phase one and two large diameter drill diamonds from AK6 diamond discovery in the Orapa province of Botswana, yielded a value of...

Great Basin plans to wrap up BEE deal by end-Feb

Great Basin Gold (GBG) was in “the final throes” of its black economic-empowerment (BEE) transaction negotiations with partner Tranter Gold, and it hoped to have the deal's terms finalised by the end of February, CE and president Ferdi...

Canada urges Kenya to issue mining licence

Canada urged Kenya on Friday to speed up the process of approving a long-standing application by Canadian firm Tiomin Resources to mine titanium on the country's Indian Ocean coast.