Company announcement: Update on operations and new coal project acquisition

African focused coal mining investment and production company Continental Coal Limited is pleased to provide an update on operating and financial performance at its thermal coal mining and processing operations in South Africa and background on...

Company Announcement: ZYL Renegotiates Southern Anthracite Project

Perth-based emerging metallurgical coal producer ZYL Limited has successfully renegotiated the acquisition of the Southern Anthracite Project in the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa.

Company Announcement: AEL Deploys Largest DigiShot Plus Electronic Blast at Optimum Colliery

Attached please find a press release on: AEL Mining Services, a pioneer and leader in development and manufacturing of electronic detonators, recently completed a successful trial blast using the DigitShot Plus electronic initiating system at...

Company Announcement: Rockwell Automation Supplies Prosafe™ Trapped Key Interlock System To Chrome Smelter

Attached please find a press release on: Rockwell Automation has successfully designed and delivered an Allen-Bradley® Guardmaster® Prosafe™ trapped key interlocking system for a chrome smelter, located in Steelpoort in the Mpumalanga Province.

Fieldstone sees opportunities for private investors to undertake SA rail projects

The private sector would have more success than government-funded enterprises in funding South African rail infrastructure projects, said financial consultancy firm Fieldstone Africa, at this year’s Coaltrans South Africa conference. Fieldstone...

Keaton to start exploration drilling at Sterkfontein extension mid-Aug

JSE-listed coal explorer Keaton Energy is likely to start exploration drilling, on its recently acquired 2 884 ha extension to its Sterkfontein project, in the Mpumalanga Province, by mid-August this year. "Planning of the R9-million, 93-hole...

Company Announcement: Keaton Energy Announces Fourth Coal Mining Project

Attached please find a press release on: Keaton Energy has announced its intention to proceed with its fourth coal mining project, Leeuwfontein, 35 kilometres south of Middelburg in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province.

80% of Xstrata-Merafe ferrochrome capacity now shut, no lay-offs anticipated

Eighty per cent of the capacity of Xstrata-Merafe ferrochrome venture was now shut, but no lay-offs of permanent employees were anticipated, the JSE-listed Merafe Resources said on Friday. Merafe announced on December 1 that 11 Xstrata-Merafe...

Company Announcement: Mining Permit Granted

Attached please find a press release on: Keaton Energy Holdings Limited (JSE: KEH; Keaton Energy) announced today that its 74%-held subsidiary, Keaton Mining (Pty) Ltd (Keaton Mining), has been granted a mining permit by the Department of Minerals...

Company Announcement: 61.4% increase in mineable in situ coal in the measured category at delmas project

Attached please find a press release on: Keaton Energy Holdings Limited (JSE: KEH) has announced a 61.4% increase in mineable in situ coal in the measured category – from 60.1 million tonnes to 97 million tonnes – at its Delmas...

Company Announcement: R3.2bn Nkomati Expansion Approved, Quadruples nickel production

Attached please find a press release on: African Rainbow Minerals Limited (ARM) and Norilsk Nickel, 50:50 JV owners of the Nkomati Nickel Mine in the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa, are pleased to announce the approval of a R3.2 billion ($445...

Eastplats receives prospecting rights, green light for mineral title transfer

JSE-listed platinum-exploration and development company Eastern Platinum (Eastplats) has received new-order prospecting rights for its Mareesburg project from South Africa's Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), which also granted two new-order...