Chamber eyes 30% growth for 2010

The Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines reports that the country’s mining industry could grow by as much as 30% in 2010, should power availability improve within the country and if more working capital is made available to mining companies.

Deliberate policy intervention

Beneficiation is a deliberate policy intervention to move South Africa from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy, as the imminent depletion of mineral resources places an obligation on the country to find alternative ways of creating...

SA still missing out on commodity boom

The sustained strength of the South African currency for most of 2004 makes it evident that there will be no notable recovery in the mineral sales figures for the year when these are released in the course of 2005, said the Chamber of Mines...

SA still missing out on commodity boom

The sustained strength of the South African currency for most of 2004 makes it evident that there will be no notable recovery in the mineral sales figures for the year when these are released in the course of 2005, said the Chamber of Mines...

Go back to basics, mining sector urged

President Thabo Mbeki called for the mining industry to go ‘back to basics’, at the Chamber of Mines annual general meeting this month, reminding of the lessons that needed to be learnt from the past 90 years, while encouraging the...