CoM meets with emerging miners

The president and senior executives of the Chamber of Mines (CoM) met with emerging mining companies on Thursday to identify areas of cooperation in addressing the challenges of the mining industry. CoM president Xolani Mkhwanazi said the meeting...

Importance of safety recognised at South Deep

Metals producer Gold Field’s South Deep mining project achieved its two-millionth fatality-free shift in February, with the miner targeting the three-million mark.

BHP exits titanium, sells RBM stake to Rio

Mining giant BHP Billiton said on Wednesday it would exit the titanium minerals industry in South Africa, selling its 37% stake in mineral sands producer Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) to Rio Tinto. The deal would double Rio Tinto’s stake in RBM...

Mining Indaba Schedule

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This week: Harmony Gold says South Africa could learn from the ‘transparent’ Papua New Guinea mining industry. Bobby Godsell says South Africa needs to debate the money source for the next 100 years of mining. And, South Africa’s Chamber of...

Carbon tax will snag beneficiation plans, says Exxaro CEO

The possible introduction of carbon tax on top of rising electricity tariffs, higher labour costs and statutory social obligations could stop mineral beneficiation from taking place in South Africa, says Exxaro CEO Sipho Nkosi. In the last two...

CoM elect Optimum Coal’s Teke as second VP

The Chamber of Mines of South Africa on Tuesday announced that Optimum Coal’s CEO Mike Teke had been elected VP at the chamber’s 121st annual general meeting. Teke takes over from Anglo American Platinum CE Neville Nicolau, who did not avail...

Nationalisation like a ‘scarecrow', issue needs conclusion – CoM

The nature and size of mining’s future contribution to the socio-economic growth of South Africa would be determined by the manner in which a conclusion is brought to the controversial issue of nationalisation, Chamber of Mines (CoM) president...

Shock as chamber stalwart Roger Baxter leaves South Africa for Canada

Shock waves are reverberating along the corridors of mining power on the news that minerals economics stalwart Roger Baxter has quit his position as South African Chamber of Mines senior executive strategy to join a company within the diversified...

BHP Billiton continues as the hardest hat in global mining

Around the turn of the millennium, the bosses of Billiton, then an ambitious South African mining company, sat in the lobby of a big fund manager waiting to talk up their firm’s prospects. At first they were welcomed warmly. But their hosts’...

Potential for South Africa to secure bigger slice of global manganese market – Minister

South Africa has the potential to secure a larger part of the global manganese market, says Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu.

North American exposition was highly successful – mining stakeholders

The South African mining industry tripartite, between the Chamber of Mines, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the South African Mining Development Association (Samda), reports that it has concluded a successful first leg of an...