Tau Tona mine, South Africa

A gold operation located south-west of Johannesburg.

AngloGold plans to reopen TauTona next week

Gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti was planning to reopen its TauTona mine, in South Africa's North West province, on Tuesday, spokesperson Alan Fine said on Friday, noting that this would, however, depend on the outcome of an ongoing investigation into...

AngloGold worker dies at TauTona mine

South African gold producer AngloGold Ashanti on Thursday confirmed that a fatal accident at its TauTona mine, in the North West province, had claimed the life of a miner. Spokesperson Joanne Jones told Mining Weekly Online that production had...

Daily podcast – May 25, 2009

In today's podcast: Uranium One may consider buying uranium assets in Africa; and South Africa's mining industry reports more fatal accidents over the weekend.

SA mine death toll grows as gold, platinum mines report more fatalities

South Africa’s mining industry has reported more fatal accidents, bringing the number of mine deaths to nine in just over a week. The gold mining sector accounted for seven of the fatal accidents, while two workers were killed in platinum mines...

SA union to boycott AngloGold mine Thursday

South Africa's biggest miners union said on Wednesday 5 000 members would stay away from work at AngloGold Ashanti'sTauTona mine on Thursday to mark the death of a colleague who died last week. The NUM has been putting pressure on mining...

SA mine death toll rises, 3 miners died in separate accidents

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Thursday added its voice to calls urging the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) to release the presidential audit on mining safety. This was after another three mineworkers had died in three...

TauTona deep mine video

TauTona mine is one of the world's deepest working mines.

'Day of mourning' halts output at AngloGold's Mponeng mine

Production at South African gold producer AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine, in Carletonville, had stopped on Thursday, with nearly 16 000 workers observing a day of mourning, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said. The employees were...

AngloGold temporarily shuts two main sections at TauTona

Two main sections of AngloGold Ashanti's TauTona mine would remain closed for another day, following an inspection by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) on Monday into the death of a worker last week. AngloGold Ashanti spokesperson...

Mponeng Carbon Leader reef (CLR) deepening project, South Africa.

The project will entail the construction of three vertical tertiary shafts for access to the CLR that is also mined by the neighbouring TauTona mine.

AngloGold eyes full production at SA mines despite power crunch

South Africa’s biggest gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti reiterated on Tuesday that it was confident of moving towards full production capacity at its local operations and said that it would “claw back” a large slice of the gold...