Canada's Nunavut awaits its day in the sun

The prospects of a mining boom in Canada's Arctic territory of Nunavut - once as bright as the Northern Lights - are fading fast as costs in the inhospitable region spiral higher, forcing writedowns on two major gold projects there. The sparsely...

Jonathan Best is Sentula's new chair

Troubled JSE-listed coal-mining and coal-services company Sentula has appointed Jonathan Best as its chairperson. Sentula said on Tuesday that Jeff Van Rooyen, Pulane Kingston and Dawn Marole had tendered their resignations as non-executive...

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Tender work arising from municipal contracts

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Tender work arising from municipal contracts

Australia will be first to excel at mining the ocean floor - Canadian prof

Did Jules Verne know something the rest of the world is only waking up to now? In 1870, Verne wrote in Twenty Thousands Leagues Under The Sea that "in the depths of the oceans there are mines of zinc, iron, silver and gold that would be...

Australia will be first to excel at mining ocean floor for gold, copper, top Canadian professor predicts

Did Jules Verne know something the rest of the world is only waking up to now? In 1870, Verne wrote in Twenty Thousands Leagues Under The Sea that "in the depths of the oceans there are mines of zinc, iron, silver and gold that would be...

Future alignment of empowerment rules probably the way to go

n November last year, Chamber of Mines president Lazarus Zim said that South Africa was losing out on between R5-billion a year and R10-billion a year in mining investments, as a result of regulatory constraints.

SA moves towards empowered equilbrium

Transformation defines the South African regulatory environment in which companies have to operate. Until such time as broad-based black economic-empowerment (BBBEE) targets have been met and a new empowered equilibrium has been reached, companies...