ArcelorMittal SA will not bid for Scaw, but interested in some assets

South Africa's largest steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa would not participate in a bid for Anglo American's steel unit, Scaw Metals, unless the mining giant decided to sell the company's assets off piecemeal. Anglo announced that Scaw...

Silicosis-stricken ex-miners blame Anglo for their condition, take mining giant to court

South Africa’s gold-mining industry has employed up to half-a-million workers at any time over the past hundred-plus years of mining, and claims have been doing the rounds that thousands of mineworkers have contracted lung diseases because...

Miners to face the strong arm of the law for rehab noncompliance, govt warns

In a continent blessed with a wealth of mineral resources, these riches also carry an underlying tone of blackness fraught with pollution, land degradation and health and safety risks.

Blow to transformation as Anglo’s South Africa head Dlamini quits

Anglo American South Africa head Kuseni Dlamini has quit the company to take up a new opportunity outside the group, the company said on Thursday. Anglo media relations head Pranill Ramchander told Mining Weekly Online that no decision had been...

Worker killed at Anglo Coal’s Goedehoop mine

A mineworker at Anglo Coal’s Goedehoop mine, near Witbank, in South Africa, has died after being hit by a vehicle. Spokesperson for parent company Anglo American, Pranill Ramchander, told Mining Weekly Online on Tuesday that the worker had been...

Anglo Coal’s Greenside Colliery workers stage one-day strike after fatality

About 500 of workers belonging to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) observed a day of mourning at coal producer Anglo Coal’s Greenside Colliery, in South Africa, after an employee died at the weekend. Anglo American spokesperson Pranill...

Anglo American, Eskom ink electricity agreement

Diversified miner Anglo American and State-owned power utility Eskom have agreed to establish a strategic cooperation to identify and implement solutions to guarantee the integrity of South Africa’s electricity supply. Anglo American...

Cosatu strike hits SA gold, coal mines

The one-day strike organised by the Congress of Trade Unions of South Africa (Cosatu), was affecting mines in the Free State and Mpumalanga provinces, as workers downed tools in protest to rising food and energy prices. The industrial action...

UK calls for fresh sanctions against Mugabe’s regime

Zimbabwe continued to attract heightened attention as the UK’s Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, on Monday urged the world to initiate fresh sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s regime. Miliband, who was in South Africa to attend the eighth...

Former AngloGold COO Nicolau joins Anglo American

Former AngloGold Ashanti COO Neville Nicolau has joined its once-parent company, Anglo American, as global asset optimisation head, the diversified mining giant confirmed on Friday. He joined Anglo American on March 1, spokesperson Pranill...

Human rights group decries relocation of poor for platinum

World number-one platinum producer Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) has again come under fire from a human rights group, this time South Africa-based ActionAid, for causing communities in Limpopo province to lose their farmland and access to fresh...

Coal output improving after heavy rains slowed production - miners

Some of electricity parastatal Eskom's biggest coal suppliers said on Wednesday that their production was improving after heavy rains this week, with one supplier saying that "unnecessary hype had been created". "It is still...