Cosira Group awarded additional work at Zim’s Unki platinum mine

Black economic-empowered steel fabrication company the Cosira Group has been awarded a second contract for conveyor structural, mechanical and piping (SMP) at mining giant Anglo American’s Unki platinum mine and process plant, in Zimbabwe.

Camec says $214m Zim PGM project proceeding to schedule

London-listed mining company Camec is going ahead with its US$214-million platinum project on the southern part of Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, with the commissioning expected during the last quarter of this year.



New Impala-linked Zimbabwe platinum investor senses ‘near-term’ political settlement

The new Impala Platinum-linked Kameni start up that is intent on building platinum and chrome mines in Zimbabwe senses a “near-term” political settlement in the troubled country where, it says, platinum investment is receiving a red-carpet...

Strong poised to grow stronger as platinum industry mulls consolidation

On the one hand, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president Senzeni Zokwana is calling for the creation of a State-owned platinum mining company, and on the other are an acquisitive Impala Platinum and an emerging Xstrata Resources, both...

Implats can be ‘very instrumental’ in Zimbabwe’s economic reconstruction, says CEO David Brown

The world’s second-largest platinum company Impala Platinum can be “very instrumental” in any economic reconstruction of Zimbabwe, where the company touches the lives of 50 000 people and where it is currently investing an additional...

Replacement needs gold to be at $2 000/oz, Implats touches 50 000 Zimbabwean lives, Northam Platinum mulls alternative power

A gold price of $2 000/oz-plus is required to replace Gold Fields’ infrastructure, says CEO Nick Holland. In announcing gold reserves of 82,8-million ounces, 80% of which are in South Africa, Holland says that the company’s mines cannot be...

Zimbabwe is of ‘strategic importance’ to Angloplat, says CEO

Platinum-miner Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) on Monday reaffirmed its controversial commitment to developing the Unki project in Zimbabwe, with new CEO Neville Nicolau saying the country was strategically important for the company’s growth plans....