28/05/2010 (On-The-Air)

A Free State gold mine has turned a killer-gas methane curse into R200-million energy blessing; A promising new black-owned South African company has bought two coal mines in Zimbabwe; Hope in Barberton, which is resurging as a gold-mining...

Vilified Beatrix is Gold Fields’ star turn

Beatrix gold-mine, the villain of the third quarter, became the star turn of Gold Fields’ fourth-quarter performance, earning high praise from the corporate top brass.

Beatrix produced 3,2 t of gold in the latest quarter, compared to 2,5 t...

Wits Gold granted uranium prospecting right

JSE- and TSX-listed gold explorer Wits Gold on Tuesday announced that it had been granted a new-order prospecting right for uranium in the Potchefstroom goldfield. Wits Gold CEO Dr Marc Watchorn said that the company had been granted the uranium...

ALL-IN-COSTING PIONEER

Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland is continuing to campaign for all-in costs to be reflected by gold companies. His praiseworthy introduction of the concept of notional cash expenditure (NCE) is an important reform and gets away from gold companies...

Free cash, best-ever safety from Gold Fields, debt-free cash flow from Harmony Gold, more discovery at Gounkoto from Randgold

South African gold-mining major Gold Fields put R1,4-billion of free, unencumbered cash into the till in the March quarter, achieved its best-ever safety performance, fixed production on a firm upward trajectory and cut costs by 2%.

Daily podcast – May 8, 2009

In today's podcast: Zambia selects Chinese firm NFC Africa as the new investor to run the closed Luanshya Copper Mines; and Gold Fields promises that the poorly-performing Beatrix gold mine will be back over the 100 000 oz a quarter mark in the...

Slumping Beatrix will be back, Gold Fields promises

The poorly-performing Beatrix gold mine in the Free State would be back over the 100 000 oz a quarter mark in the future, Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland promised of the group’s problem child whose production slumped 25% in the March quarter....

Wits Gold buys exploration data from AngloGold Ashanti

Gold junior Wits Gold has concluded an agreement with AngloGold Ashanti to acquire historical exploration data from the Beisa North area, where Wits Gold holds prospecting rights, for R680 640, it said on Tuesday. Wits Gold would integrate this...

Power supply problems causes headache for gold producer

The unreliable supply of power from power utility Eskom to one of South Africa's largest gold producing companies, Gold Fields, has caused the company to rethink a number of strategies.

Company Announcement: Gold Fields Beatrix and Driefontein mines achieve a million fatality-free shifts

Attached please find a press release on: Gold Fields Limited is pleased to report that two of its operations – Driefontein Gold Mine on the West Rand and Beatrix Gold Mine in the Free State – have both achieved one million...

Manganism health battle, mine's methane-capture ambition, diamond-law worries

Manganism health battle, mine’s methane-capture ambition, diamond-law worries

Manganism, or manganese poisoning, is the topic of our cover story in this week’s edition of Mining Weekly. It is arguably one of the lesser-known certifiable diseases in the mining industry, caused by excessive or prolonged exposure to...