Tokyo conference to showcase gold’s industrial advances – Mintek

Gold continues to search for its industrial potential, particularly at the nanoscale. Minuscule, nanosized gold particles – measuring three- to four-millionths of a millimetre – are selectively reactive at a nanoscale, while remaining stable...

Tokyo conference to showcase gold’s industrial advances – Mintek

Gold continues to search for its industrial potential, particularly at the nanoscale. Minuscule, nanosized gold particles – measuring three- to four-millionths of a millimetre – are selectively reactive at the nanoscale, while remaining stable...

20/04/2012 (On-The-Air)

South Africans are spearheading a new mining thrust in bauxite-rich West Africa; Gold is supplying a missing piece in South Africa’s quest to regrow its industrialisation base; and Eskom intends taking the power of the sun to a new level in...

Kell technology ignites industry-creating hopes for platinum sector

A new technology – the Kell process – is igniting hopes that South Africa will be able to create a new industrial thrust out of its unique platinum endowment. There is a snowballing conviction at high level that South Africa could and should...

New process opens way for full-spectrum platinum beneficiation

The Kell Process, which slashes electricity consumption by eliminating the power-guzzling smelting step in the processing of platinum-group metals (PGMs), also opens the way for full-spectrum platinum beneficiation, including the facilitation of...

IDC invests big in Gilbertson/Frandsen new-look platinum integration

South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has made its biggest single investment in five years - R3.24-billion - in Platmin’s comeback as an integrated miner and beneficiater. The delisted Platmin, now enhanced and...

Favourable interim results for SA platinum producer

Producer of platinum-group metals Platmin announced a second-quarter profit of $6,6-million in its interim results for the half-year ended August 31, 2009.

Gilbertson, Davis set to ‘turn platinum-mining on its head'

The introduction of Mick Davis' Xstrata and Brian Gilbertson's Pallinghurst would turn the platinum-mining business on its head, RBC Capital Market analyst Leon Esterhuizen predicted on Tuesday. Esterhuizen said that, by their very nature, both...

Platmin appoints Gilbertson as chair, Dale as CEO

Tom Dale, the outgoing CEO of South African fluorspar-miner Sallies, would join platinum junior Platmin as CEO on December 1, succeeding Ian Watson, who resigned earlier this month. Sallies announced on Friday that Dale had resigned as director...

Platmin begins search for new CEO to succeed Watson

Aim-, JSE- and TSX-listed Platmin has started evaluating suitable candidates to succeed its current CEO Ian Watson, who will retire as an executive and director of the junior mining company at the end of the year. "Ian has been a director and...

Platmin concludes R400m Investec financing deal

JSE-, TSX-, and Aim-listed Platmin has concluded a R400-million, 12-month, renewable, revolving commodity financing agreement with Investec Bank. The funds would be used for working capital purposes, Platmin said on Friday.

PMGs producer secures R400-m revolving credit facility

Emerging platinum-group metals (PGMs) producer Platmin has entered into a R400-million revolving credit facility with specialist banking group Investec for working capital purposes. The facility will carry an interest rate of the Johannesburg...