South Africa goes big on nuclear a year on from Fukushima

South Africa will come to the rescue of a nuclear industry, still struggling for customers a year after Japan's Fukushima disaster, with a tender for one of the world's biggest atomic power deals. Firms from France, the US, Japan, South Korea,...

SA’s first online mining auction sells equipment worth R15m

Having secured about R20-million worth of stock and a 60.7% confirmation rate for its pilot mining and construction online auction, auction house Luxury Brands believes it has set new a precedent. Through its auction and asset sales and services...

Fort Knox mine, Alaska

An openpit mine, situated in Alaska

Expansion on schedule, coal supply delayed by Medupi

The Exxaro Grootegeluk brownfield expansion project is aimed at supplying State-owned power utility Eskom with 14.6-million tons of power-station-grade coal a year for its Medupi power station.

Company Announcement: Concor makes good progress with development of Vlakfontein Opencast Coal Mine

Concor Opencast Mining has made excellent progress with the establishment of the new Vlakfontein coal mine near Ogies in Mpumalanga since moving onto the greenfields site in February 2011.

Bald Mountain mine

A Barrick Gold-owned mine situated in Nevada.

Eskom initiates talks with Exxaro on Medupi delay

State power utility Eskom indicated on Wednesday that it was in discussions with Exxaro regarding its contractual coal-supply obligations in light of an anticipated six-month delay to the start up of the first unit, or Unit 6, at the coal-fired...

September 2013 set as ‘worst-case’ start date for first Medupi unit

State-owned power utility Eskom’s current “worst-case scenario” for delivering initial power to the grid from the first Medupi power station unit, or Unit 6, was currently September 2013, Mining Weekly Online has learned. The unit would be...

Hope Downs mine, Australia

A hematite and goethite mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Ok Tedi mine, Papua New Guinea

A copper/gold mine situated in Papua New Guinea.

Molycorp inks new supply agreement with Hitachi

Molycorp, developing a rare earths mine in California, on Friday said it signed an agreement with Hitachi Metals to supply the Japanese firm with rare earth magnetic materials for three years. The companies already had a supply agreement, which...

Molycorp ditches Hitachi magnets JV

Molycorp, refurbishing the Mountain Pass rare earths mine in California, has abandoned talks with Japan’s Hitachi to build a rare earths magnet manufacturing facility in the US, but has started negotiating with other companies in this regard,...