Vladimir Kremer

Position: Chief MD Renova Management AG Main Activity of the Company: Mining, oil, machine building, construction development, energy, telecommunications, nanotechnologies, utilities, finance, in Russia and abroad Date and Place of Birth: April...

Russia’s Renova mulling uplift of South African manganese business

The Russian Renova group is considering enhancement of its South African manganese operations, involving the possible integration of its Transalloys manganese smelter in Mpumalanga and its partly owned manganese mine in the Kalahari. It is...

Renova may build manganese sinter plant in South Africa

Russian Renova group is considering enhancement of its South African manganese operations, including the building of a manganese sinter plant which will make use of the manganese from a mine it co-owns in the Kalahari. One of the biggest private...

Gold shares to outshine platinum shares, Zim central bank moots mining overhaul, manganese smelter to close for two months

South African gold shares are poised to outdo South African platinum shares in the first half of 2009, Royal Bank of Canada Europe analysts Leon Esterhuizen, Arnold van Graan and Yuen Low calculate.

Manganese-ore smelter Transalloys to close for two months - Afro Minerals

Production at the Transalloys manganese-ore smelting operation in South Africa would cease for two months because of reduced current market demand, Afro Minerals Trading AG marketing manager Patrick Huber said on Monday. Huber said in an emailed...

Russia-South Africa manganese venture wins licence

United Manganese of Kalahari, a Russian-South African consortium part-owned by billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, has won a mining licence for a planned $200-million manganese mine, the Russian partner said on Tuesday.

Three-way merger creates worlds largest aluminium and alumina producer

The deal to combine the aluminium assets of Russian companies Rusal, Sual and Swiss commodities producer and trader Glencore, has been completed.

Uranium quandary: develop or sell?

Harmony Gold Mining Co, Africa’s third-largest gold producer, will decide by September whether to develop its uranium reserves rather than sell them to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg.

Renova may start SA manganese mine in 2007

Viktor Vekselberg's ZAO Renova may open a manganese mine in South Africa next year, said Thabo Mbeki, the president of the African country.

Russia to spend $1bn on manganese in SA

A Russian company plans to spend $1-billion on a manganese project in South Africa, said Vladimir Putin, Russia's president. He didn't identify the company.

Gilbertson expected to chair giant Russian aluminium producer

Russia's two biggest aluminium companies plan to combine and create the world's largest producer of the metal, tightening President Vladimir Putin's control over the nation's raw materials industries. Putin approved a proposal for OAO Russian...

Russians sniff Kalahari manganese prospects

Russia's Renova Group has commenced a pre-feasibility study into the construction of a ferroalloy smelter in SA & formed a manganese JV with SA BEE companies.