Lake Shore announces 1.03Moz resource at Thunder Creek

Canadian junior Lake Shore Gold announced an initial 1.3-million ounce indicated and inferred resource at its Thunder Creek project near Timmins, Ontario, sending its shares nearly 7% higher on the TSX. Of the resource, 521 600 oz are in the...

Study to restart Bibiani gold mine nears completion – Noble

Emerging West African gold explorer Noble Mineral Resources on Tuesday reported a two-million ounce resource estimate for its Bibiani gold mine, which it acquired late last year. The resource estimate formed part of Noble’s prefeasibility...

Botswana nickel miner reports processing breakthrough

At a time when the world demand for copper and nickel is escalating rapidly, a new metallurgical process is set to render the traditional smelting/refining route for these base metals redundant. It will also enable the profitable mining of large,...

Tati Nickel - a revolution in base-metals processing

At a time when the world demand for copper and nickel is escalating rapidly, a new metallurgical process is set to render the traditional smelting/refining route for these base metals redundant.

Smith to step down from mining group

Hans Smith has announced that he would be stepping down as non-executive chairperson and as a member of the Board of Kumba Resources at the company’s annual general meeting in November after having successfully fulfilled his mandate.

SA aids computer mining solution

The first stage of preparing a specific Systems Analysis Programme (SAP) mining solution has been completed and the solution is now receiving final inputs from, among others, a core team within SAP Southern Africa’s mining business unit....