The Kimberley Club, sanctuary of the diamond magnates

The city of Kimberley has, over its’ 140-year history, become synonymous with all aspects of South Africa’s mining and industrial heritage: it was the birthplace of diamondiferous kimberlite mining and subsequently became the birthplace of...

Historic mining house turns 100

Northwards, that stately home on the Parktown ridge which turns 100 this year, oozes Joburg’s early mining history.

Old gold

Northwards, that stately home on the Parktown ridge which turns 100 this year, oozes Joburg’s early mining history.

Black-empowered gold-mine partnership is beginning to unravel

The short-lived partnership between Dr Paseka Ncholo’s black-economically-empowered mining company Khumo Bathong and German billionaire Claas Daun’s Daun et Cie is ending, Mining Weekly can today report.

R42m expenditure by once-moribund gold-mine

The 109-year-old gold-mine, East Rand Proprietary Mine (ERPM) of Boksburg, has burst into profit for the first time since being bought out of liquidation two years ago.

Struggle to preserve mining heritage

The article summarises the history of attempts to create a gold mining museum in Johannesburg, dating back to 1936.