New exploration push, silica manganese end, infrastructure boost

The mining industry has been given 20 days from the Government Gazette notice of February 6 to offer ideas on lapsed and revoked South African mineral rights; BHP Billiton's Samancor has permanently stopped production of silica manganese; the...

Government impels local PGM beneficiation

The South African Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) says domestic sales of platinum-group metals (PGMs) are expected to increase as government intensifies its strategy to increase the local beneficiation of mineral resources.

Central Rand Gold mining right cancelled

South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has cancelled the mining rights of Johannesburg- and London-listed Central Rand Gold (CRG). The company, which is mining under Johannesburg, contravened the mining laws regarding the...

DMR’s Nogxina to retire at the end of June

South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has confirmed that director-general Sandile Nogxina would retire at the end of the month. Nogxina has been at the helm of the Department of Mineral Resources and its predecessor, the...

Shabangu withdraws Xolobeni mining licence

South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has withdrawn the mining licence granted to Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM) in 2008, to mine for titanium-bearing minerals near Xolobeni on the Eastern Cape Wild Coast. The Minister...

Shabangu extends new prospecting rights applications moratorium

South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu on Monday extended the moratorium on new applications for prospecting rights in the country. The Minister had previously indicated that the moratorium would be lifted in eight provinces on...

Software solutions for Zim gold mine

Consulting engineering and project management firm Read Swatman & Voigt’s (RSV’s) new linked enterprise RSV Gem reports that it will be using software developed by solutions and services provider Micromine to assist in undertaking a geological...

Mineral Minister’s 2011 obligation

In looking back on 2010, August 17, in our book, must surely go down as the most crucial day of the year for South Africa's mining industry, and for South Africa's reputation as a mining investment destination. It was on that day that South...

Now Mineral Resources Minister must turn step change into sea change

Turnaround Tuesday was crucial for South Africa's mining industry and for South Africa's reputation as an investment destination.

SA's Shabangu to meet platinum CEOs on mine safety

South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu would meet the CEOs of platinum-mining companies on Thursday to discuss mine safety issues, after six workers died in two separate accidents last week. Five workers were killed in an...

R8bn Optimum Coal BEE lists, targets stressed assets, ramps up output

New black-owned and controlled coal mining and exploration group Optimum Coal listed in the general mining sector on the JSE's main board on Monday, opening with its first trade at R31,85 a share, slightly below the R32 a share placement price....

Shabangu says mine 
nationalisation is 
not policy

South African Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has reiterated that the nationalisation of the country’s mining sector was not a government policy and would not be adopted as such in the foreseeable future.