Proposed Simmers/Village gold merger gets strong Vulisango support

The formerly disgruntled and belligerent black economic empowerment partner of the JSE-listed Simmer & Jack is now coming out in full, enthusiastic support for the proposed R1,3-billion all-share merger of Simmers with Village Main Reef.

Vulisango backing Simmers/Village merger to hilt

The formerly disgruntled and belligerent black economic empowerment partner of the JSE-listed Simmer & Jack is now coming out in full, enthusiastic support for the proposed R1,3-billion all-share merger of Simmers with Village Main Reef. The two...

Vulisango’s Watson appointed to Simmers board

South African gold-miner Simmer & Jack Mines (Simmers) has appointed the CEO of its empowerment partner Vulisango, Valence Watson, as a nonexecutive director. Simmers noted that Watson had been nominated to act as a director in place of Kevin...

Troubled TGME gold to go below radar screen yet again

It wasn’t that long ago that journalists galore hot-footed it to Mpumalanga province to witness geologists’ core samples that pointed to a potential Carlin Trend-type resuscitation of the old Transvaal Gold Mining Estate (TGME) that’s had a...

Simmers empowerment 
partner wins sway in lengthy boardroom battle

Vulisango was as little known as Jaganda before it, and many tongues battle to get around the pronunciation of Xelexwa. But the combination of all those has won significant sway within the gold-and-uranium mid-cap mining company, Simmer & Jack...

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...

Simmers appointing new board members, welcomes State’s ‘fronting’ probe

JSE-listed gold junior Simmer & Jack (Simmers) on Friday reported that a process was under way to recruit new independent nonexecutive directors and said it would welcome a ‘fronting’ investigation by the Department of Mineral Resources...

LENDING AN EAR

Gold junior Simmer & Jack CEO Gordon Miller is seen lending an ear at last week's heated company annual general meeting (AGM) in Johannesburg, which was preceded by the resignation of five directors. Simmer & Jack's black economic-empowerment...

Sasol studying conversion of CO2 into fuel, Zimbabwe gold, coal-mine opportunities, Simmers chair's ongoing Vulisango pledge

South Africa's coal-to-liquids company, Sasol, is studying the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuel. Engineers and scientists in Sasol's technology division are working on algaeic forms of methanol production.

Resolving differences with Vulisango will continue – Simmers

Engagement with disgruntled black economically empowered shareholder Vulisango would continue in order to resolve differences, JSE-listed Simmer & Jack (Simmers) chairperson Nigel Brunette told Mining Weekly Online on Monday. "They're a big...

Daily podcast – September 21, 2009

Simmer & Jack Mines clarifies the resignation of five directors; and Zambia's President Rupiah Banda has defended his government's scrapping of a 25 percent mining windfall tax.

Five directors quit gold junior Simmers

JSE-listed gold junior Simmer & Jack (Simmers) moved quickly on Monday to clarify the resignation of five directors on Saturday. Simmers, headed by CEO Gordon Miller, said the resignation of the five was unrelated to a black economic empowerment...