Rockwell appoints new COO

Rockwell Diamonds, which mines the gems from ancient river beds in South Africa, on Monday said it had appointed former Pangea DiamondFields operations manager Michael Stanley Hunt as COO starting July 11. Incumbent Graham Chamberlain moves to...

Heavy rains, flooding disrupt Northern Cape diamond operations

Alluvial diamond junior Rockwell Diamonds on Friday said that it had lost five days of production at its Holpan and Klipdam operations in South Africa’s Northern Cape, owing to heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding. Mining operations resumed...

Rockwell to restart Ventersdorp diamond operation

Loss-making alluvial diamond junior Rockwell will recommission its impressive rebuilt Tirisano diamond plant near Ventersdorp in March, which will boost crucial volumes and help to smooth out the company’s currently variable cash flow cycle....

Rockwell sees bridal diamond promise in sparkling Ventersdorp

South Africans tend to associate this far-flung rural town with agriculture rather than mining.

Rockwell hires former Pamodzi GM as operations chief

Former Pamodzi Gold East Rand GM Graham Chamberlain would take up the position of COO at JSE- and TSX-listed Rockwell Diamonds from November 1. Rockwell CEO John Bristow on Wednesday said that Chamberlain’s mix of engineering, mineral resource...

Now Mandela/Zuma's Aurora buys Pamodzi Gold East Rand

New gold-miner Aurora Empowerment Systems has bought the liquidated Pamodzi Gold East Rand assets, Mining Weekly Online can today report. The hedged East Rand property, the last piece of the stricken Pamodzi Gold group to be bought out...

Bid in for Pamodzi Gold East Rand as JSE entity finally liquidated

News leaked on Tuesday of a strong bid being made for the stricken Pamdozi Gold East Rand - the last of the Pamodzi group companies to attract an offer - at the same time as the JSE announced that an order of final Pamodzi Gold liquidation had...

Pamodzi optimistic about medium-term future of East Rand operations following loan injection

After a challenging couple of months Pamodzi Gold East Rand Operations GM Graham Chamberlain believes that the “battle has been won”, stating that the East Rand Operations’ production and pumping future is relatively secure for the medium-term.

Pamodzi Gold gets R50m from German bank, Solidarity wants insolvency probe

As trade union Solidarity called for an insolvency probe into potential financial irregularities in the provisionally liquidated Pamodzi Gold, the stricken company's liquidators on Thursday announced that the German HypoVereinsbank (HVB) had...

Acid mine drainage single most significant threat to SA’s environment

Environmentalists have termed acid mine drainage (AMD) the single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment and this is being driven home by the AMD problems being experienced at the East Rand operations of provisionally liquidated...

Acid mine drainage single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment

Environmentalists have termed acid mine drainage (AMD) as the single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment. In the past, these and other concerns about AMD were in effect ignored by the major stakeholders of the country’s...

S African govt gives Pamodzi Gold R7,5m for critical water pumping

The South African government’s Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) on Thursday deposited R7,5-million into the account of the provisionally liquidated Pamodzi Gold East Rand to enable it to fight off the dangerous rising water onslaught at...