Angloplat output drops, keeps FY production target

South African miner Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) has kept its 2010 production forecast at 2,5-million ounces of platinum, despite its first-quarter output having dropped by 3% year-on-year and 1,5% quarter-on-quarter. The platinum miner, led by CEO...

Net debt expected to continue to rise – Angloplat

The net debt of the once cash-flush Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) was expected to continue to increase as the profit margins of the world’s largest platinum company remained depressed and capital expenditure continued, Angloplat CFO Bongani...

Angloplat, Limpopo community still wrangling over the planned Richmond dam

It has been two-and-a-half years since the Limpopo’s Gamawela community and mining company Anglo Platinum started their tussle over whether the Richmond dam should be built or not - and the increasingly public spat is far from over.

Angloplat’s actions ‘adversely affected’ communities – SAHRC

An investigation by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) into the relocation of communities surrounding Anglo Platinum’s (Angloplat’s) Potgietersrust Platinum Limited (PPL), in the Limpopo province, found that mining operations...

Angloplat boosts workers’ pay as SA’s inflation surges

World number-one platinum producer Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) has decided to up its workers pay increase by 2% to 10,4% from July 1, to help them cope with soaring inflation, trade union Solidarity said on Monday. The union's spokesperson Reint...

Displacement reports 'factually inaccurate' - Angloplat

Platinum conglomerate Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) on Tuesday night dismissed reports from a British radio station and a pressure group over its community relocations, saying they included “erroneous and inflammatory statements”. The...

Angloplat's Amandelbult mine's output disrupted by floods

Platinum giant Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) said on Wednesday that a major storm had affected operations at its Amandelbult mine, resulting in several underground working areas being immersed by flood-water.

The South African mining industry spent time this year passing the corporate baton

As bullish commodity prices continued their run in 2007, several CEOs though it well to end theirs.

The mining industry spent a lot of time passing the baton this year

As bullish commodity prices continued their run in 2007, several CEOs thought it well to end theirs. Some did it unexpectedly, some, perhaps, unwillingly. Others just considered it the most appropriate time to pack up the corner office and...

Angloplat may reopen closed shafts on Wednesday

World number-one platinum-producer Anglo Platinum may reopen the three shafts on Wednesday that government ordered shut last week, "if all goes well" in a meeting, a company spokesperson said.

Podcast - August 1, 2007

In this podcast: Two top mining chiefs announce their retirements; JCI and Randgold and Exploration agree to sell mining rights to Gold Fields; and De Beers averts a strike

Platinum miner in talks with BEE group

The world's largest platinum producer, Angloplat, said yesterday it was in talks with a black consortium to develop a new mine on one of its project areas in South Africa's Limpopo province.