AMD report stresses ‘urgent’ intervention to avert crisis

The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) on Thursday released the long-awaited 146-page acid mine drainage (AMD) report, which was compiled by a team of water and geology experts, and presented to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on AMD in December....

Platinum-gold capital raising to coincide with new tax breaks for junior miners

New platinum-gold junior Platfields, which will list on the main board of the JSE "within weeks", will raise capital on the exchange only in July in order to coincide with the new tax incentives for mining companies introduced by South Africa...

Astonishing Argonaut: first contracts awarded

Three dimensional (3D) seismic surveys – currently the world’s most advanced form of depicting what is beneath the earth’s surface – will be undertaken from June this year for the proposed R8-billion Argonaut gold-mining...