SA coal, gold companies agree two-year wage deals

Labour unions on Tuesday signed a two-year wage negotiation with the Chamber of Mines (CoM) for the coal sector, while the parties have also agreed to sign a two-year wage deal for the gold sector later in the day. The agreement comes after two...

SA’s first-quarter gold output down 10%

South Africa’s gold production declined by 10% to 49 713,6 kg in the first quarter of the year, compared with the 55 242 kg produced in the fourth quarter of 2008, the Chamber of Mines (CoM) reported on Monday. On a year-on-year basis the rate...

Chamber describes first half of 2008 as difficult period for diamonds sector

The Chamber of Mines (COM) has described the first half of 2008 as a difficult period for the South African diamond-mining industry, characterised by an electricity crisis and rationalisation initiatives, and closure of certain shafts, which...

Centre of excellence to achieve zero-fatality target - SA Chamber

South Africa's Chamber of Mines (CoM), together with government and labour, is considering the establishment of a "mining centre of excellence" as a means of achieving its target of zero fatalities, CoM CE Zoli Diliza reports. Diliza says that...

South Africa’s State mining company gazetting ‘concerning’ – Chamber

The government gazette notice relating to the new State mining company appeared to “negate the principle of equality before the law” and “we are concerned”, acting Chamber of Mines (CoM) of South Africa CE Frans Barker said on Thursday....

SA mining chamber says power-tariff smoothing will do least damage

South African Chamber of Mines (CoM) chief economist Roger Baxter on Thursday stated that a smoothed approach of increasing electricity prices, as well as a phased approach of providing proper incentives for people to start becoming energy...

Additional power provides beacon of light for gold producer

The announcement of an additional 260-MW allocation of power to the mining sector by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) has been welcomed by multinational gold producer Gold Fields, which has four deep-level mining operations in South...

Mining production is hard hit by electricity supply shortage

The mining production output for January 2008 was down 10,7% when compared with the same month last year, owing largely to the electricity supply crisis that lead to mine shaft closures with gold production in particular feeling the affects of...

Biggest mineworkers union to decide Monday on coal wage offer

South Africa’s biggest workers union, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), expects to have a decision on whether it accepted the wage increase offer from coal producers Exxaro, Xstrata, BHP Billiton and AngloCoal on Monday, it said on...

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