Rustenburg base metals refinery completed on time and on budget

The four-year expansion project at platinum producer Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats’) base-metals refinery (BMR), in Rustenburg, is 99.8% complete.

Unki platinum mine handed over to operations, exceeding ramp-up expectations

The Unki platinum mine and concentrator plant, in Zimbabwe, have been handed over to operations, reports primary producer of platinum-group metals Anglo American Platinum (Amplats).

Water project funded by Anglo Coal, BHP Billiton 
a boon for Mpumalanga community

Five years after the inception and three years after the opening of the eMalahleni Water Reclamation Plant, situated in Mpumalanga province, the community surrounding the plant has experienced a substantial improvement to its quality of life.

Cash-hit diversified majors should go back to listing individual mines – Ernst & Young

It is not the sort of recommendation that was ever expected to surface again, but then these are abnormal times in which even the once-mighty Anglo Platinum is warning the market of a steep drop in earnings and looking to raise capital by way of a...

Daily podcast – July 15, 2009

In today's podcast: there are great signs of a recovery in the mining sector; and talk of the nationalisation of South Africa's mining industry was sending shivers down the spines of investors.

Anglo Coal intensifying search for coal-bed methane in Waterberg

Anglo American coal-mining company Anglo Coal is intensifying its search for coal-bed methane in South Africa’s coal- and gas-rich Waterberg region. Anglo Coal South Africa CEO Ben Magara told the Terrapinn African Mining Congress in...

Price opportunism notwithstanding, fundamentals remain – Anglo's Magara

Even if the great price recovery in several mining commodities was the work of opportunists with the wherewithal to buy and hoard, the fundamentals that had brought about the recent mining boom remained entact, Anglo American South Africa...

Local coal-miner wins global recognition for its HIV/Aids programme

South African coal-mining major Anglo Coal has been recognised by the Global Business Coalition (GBC) on HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria for its pioneering workplace programme focused on tackling HIV and Aids in South Africa.

Anglo Coal’s production to increase 
substantially in the near future

The future production forecast for coal mining major Anglo Coal South Africa, part of the Anglo American mining group, shows that increased production may be expected in the near future.



Prepare SA coal for next boom, Northam foresees platinum recovery in 2010, Mozambique to start shipping coal in 2010

South Africa’s coal industry needs to ready itself for the next coal boom, which will undoubtedly occur, says Anglo Coal South Africa CEO Ben Magara on page 9 of this edition of Mining Weekly.

SA coal industry must ready itself for next boom - Anglo Coal

South Africa's coal industry needed to ready itself for the next coal boom, which would undoubtedly occur, Anglo Coal South Africa CEO Ben Magara said on Thursday. Magara told McCloskey's South African Coal Conference in Cape Town that South...

Daily podcast – December 11, 2008

In today's podcast: Anglo Platinum is not in a financial position to resist the current crisis in the platinum-mining industry; and South Africa's power crisis and an urgent need for new energy sources should protect Anglo American's coal business...