Angry First Uranium shareholders seek to ‘kill two birds with one stone’

A group of disgruntled First Uranium shareholders are threatening to vote down AngloGold Ashanti’s $335-million purchase of the company’s dump reprocessing division Mine Waste Solutions (MWS), thereby killing the planned $70-million sale of...

Gold miners monitoring Mali coup, Randgold shares tumble

As news spread of a military coup in Mali, mining companies in Africa’s third-largest gold-producing country said on Thursday that they were keeping a close eye on developments. Shares in Randgold Resources, which owns three mines in Mali,...

Renewed pressure on South Africa to join mining transparency initiative

When South Africa was asked to join the Extraction Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) ten years ago, it spurned the opportunity because it did not want to be tarred with what looked like a reform school for delinquent developing countries...

Vaal River South uranium recovery upgrade/expansion project, South Africa

Capital expenditure of R200-million has been approved for the first phase material handling, thickening and rail upgrades at the project.

AngloGold reopens Great Noligwa mine

South African gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti restarted operations at its Great Noligwa mine near Orkney on Thursday evening. The miner closed the mine to investigate the death of a worker on Monday. The winch operator died after being struck by...

AngloGold’s Great Noligwa closed after fatal accident

AngloGold Ashanti’s Great Noligwa mine near Orkney was closed on Tuesday after a worker was killed. Spokesperson Alan Fine explained that a winch operator was struck by mechanical equipment during a cleaning operation early on Monday morning.

AngloGold halts production at Mponeng after fatality

South Africa's largest gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti on Tuesday confirmed that it had closed its Mponeng mine after search parties retrieved the body of a mineworker that was reported lost on Monday. AngloGold Ashanti spokesperson Alan Fine told...

Mineworker dies at AngloGold’s Kopanang mine

South Africa's largest gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti on Monday confirmed a fatal fall-of-ground at its Kopanang mine in North West province. AngloGold Ashanti spokesperson Alan Fine said that the miner sustained serious injuries from a rock fall...

South African mining groups doing well in South America

South America is a continent whose richness in natural resources became legendary through myths such as El Dorado or the Emerald Mountain. Neither of these ever existed, of course, but today the continent produces antimony, bauxite, coal, cobalt,...

South African mining groups doing well in South America

South America is a continent whose richness in natural resources became legendary through myths such as El Dorado or the Emerald Mountain.

AngloGold plans to reopen TauTona next week

Gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti was planning to reopen its TauTona mine, in South Africa's North West province, on Tuesday, spokesperson Alan Fine said on Friday, noting that this would, however, depend on the outcome of an ongoing investigation into...

AngloGold Ashanti resumes gold exports after settling enviro dispute with Guinea govt

Gold mining major AngloGold Ashanti has reached an agreement with the government of Guinea regarding the environmental rehabilitation programme of the Siguiri project.