Company Announcement: Asante Gold Corporation Announces Advisory Board Appointments & Incentive Options Granted

Asante Gold Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of W. E. Jonah and Alan McKerron, consultants, to its Advisory Board, effective immediately.

Producer moving towards Zim indigenisation compliance

The world’s fourth-largest platinum miner Aquarius Platinum has announced that as part of the continuing indigenisation compliance negotiations between its indirect 50% subsidiary Mimosa Holdings and the government of Zimbabwe, Mimosa has signed...

Aquarius, Sylvania join forces to prove Everest North viability

Platinum companies Sylvania and Aquarius on Friday announced that they would join forces to examine the feasibility of extracting and processing platinum group metals (PGMs) ore in a part of South Africa’s bushveld complex. The companies would...

'No confidence’ call fails as Simmers sails into the sunset

The Simmer & Jack brand sailed into the sunset at the weekend as shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of its assets moving into the JSE-listed Village Main Reef, headed by mining personality Bernard Swanepoel, who was accused by a...

Wedza Phase 5,5 brownfield expansion, Zimbabwe

The project involves the expansion of the Mimosa platinum mine to 200 000 t/m run-of-mine.

On-The-Air (05/06/09)

In today's broadcast: a new microdot technology is available that puts car thieves on the spot; the determination of the world to reduce its carbon footprint may lift the price of palladium; and Zimbabwe is taking steps to attract billions of...

SA labour issues a bigger headache for Aquarius than power woes

Miner Aquarius Platinum was pegging its production improvement hopes for 2009 on patching up labour relations in South Africa over the next three to six months, CEO Stuart Murray said on Thursday. The company has repeatedly suffered setbacks...

New platinum flotation plant commissioned on western limb

ASX and AIM-listed Sylvania Resources has commissioned its Millsell platinum group metals (PGMs) flotation plant, on the Western Limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex.

Wedza phase V expansion, Mimosa platinum mine, Zimbabwe

Aquarius Platinum and Impala Platinum have announced a low capital cost expansion to increase annual production capacity to 195 000 platinum group metals ounces at the Mimosa platinum mine in Zimbabwe.

Wedza Phase IV expansion project

A low capital cost expansion project to increase annual production capacity to 168 750 PGM ounces at the Mimosa Platinum mine in Zimbabwe has been approved. The expansion project, known as 'Wedza Phase IV’, follows three earlier successful...

Everest Platinum Mine

The project involves the establishment of a 225 000 oz platinum-group metals (PGMs) mine. It is planned that the reef will be accessed from a terrace, and will be mined underground towards the Dwarsrivier valley. About 165 000 oz of PGMs will be...

Everest South Mine

Name and location Everest South Mine, located 30 km west of Lydenburg, Mpumalanga. Project description The project involves the establishment of a 225 000 oz platinum-group metals (PGMs) mine. It is planned that the reef will be accessed from a...