Company Announcement: Sherwin Iron appoints experienced resources executive to lead feasibility study and project development

Attached please find a press release on: Sherwin Iron Limited (ASX: SHD) is pleased to announce that it has taken another significant step towards the development of the Roper River Iron Project (Project) with the appointment of highly...

Vulisango rejects new Simmers board

Disgruntled Simmer & Jack Mines (Simmers) empowerment partner Vulisango on Monday rejected the new interim Simmers board. The JSE-listed Simmers last week announced Theba chairperson Vusi Khanyile as its new nonexecutive chair and Deon van der...

Khanyile appointed as Simmers chair

The interim board of battered gold and uranium producer Simmer and Jack Mines (Simmers) has appointed Theba chairperson Vusi Khanyile as nonexecutive chair, the company announced on Friday. The interim board has also appointed Deon van der Mescht...

New Simmers directors hope to lend much-needed stability

The new directors appointed by Simmer & Jack Mines last week will seek to bring greater stability and certainty to the company ahead of the beleaguered gold-miner's general meeting, scheduled for February 1, the five promised shareholders on...

Simmers CEO, chair to step down, remain with First Uranium

Disaffected JSE-listed gold-mining company Simmer & Jack Mines (Simmers) said on Friday that its CEO Gordon Miller and chairperson Nigel Brunette would step down from Simmers, but would not relinquish their positions as CEO and chairperson of...

Simmers' EGM bid withdrawn after court application

The request for the issuing of a notice for the holding of an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to unseat members of the board of JSE-listed gold junior Simmer & Jack has been withdrawn. The withdrawal on Friday follows an application by...

Johnson Matthey sees platinum, palladium deficits, Vulisango moving to unseat Simmers' gold board, rand-denominated gold, platinum, oil traded on JSE

Platinum authority Johnson Matthey foresees deficits on the way in both platinum and palladium. Read on page 12 of this edition of Mining Weekly of the company forecasting a platinum price of $1 280/oz to $1 550/oz for the next six months. Johnson...

Simmers seeking clarity on validity of meeting to remove directors

JSE-listed Simmer & Jack (Simmers) on Thursday moved to restrain Xelexwa – the company through which Vulisango Holdings held its Simmers shares – and its liquidators from convening a meeting to remove the directors of the junior gold company....

Daily podcast – November 17, 2009

Vulisango proposes that a new Simmers board be put in place; and strikers at Chile's Spence copper mine are ready to end a 35-day stoppage if owner BHP Billiton accepts their new wage proposal.

Vulisango wants Swanepoel to chair new Simmers board

Disgruntled Simmer & Jack empowerment partner Vulisango on Monday proposed that a new Simmers board be put in place at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the junior gold company. Vulisango proposed that former Harmony Gold CEO Bernard...

Carlin Trend-like Mpumalanga discovery sets pulses racing, tongues wagging

Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed junior miner Simmer & Jack (Simmers) is drilling an “exciting” Carlin Trend-like gold prospect in a secluded valley in Mpumalanga, which is causing pulses to race and tongues to wag.

Carlin Trend-like Mpumalanga discovery sets pulses racing, tongues wagging

Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed junior miner Simmer & Jack (Simmers) is drilling an "exciting" Carlin Trend-like gold prospect in a secluded valley in Mpumalanga, which is causing pulses to race and tongues to wag.