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Rio Tinto confident US will treat Canada differently on trade
By: Bloomberg 8th February 2018 The head of Rio Tinto Group’s aluminium division is confident the Trump administration will recognize that Canada must be viewed differently when considering import tariffs on the metal and in Nafta talks. “There’s a clear recognition of the strategic importance of the Canadian industry to the... →
CoM sees resurgence in hope, green shoots in South African mining industry
By: Mia Breytenbach 5th February 2018 There is new sense of hope in the mining industry and in South Africa, says Chamber of Mines (CoM) CEO Roger Baxter. “It gives us a new confidence that a resurgence is taking place in the industry for the year ahead,” said Baxter, who spoke at a media briefing at the Investing in African Mining... →
Chamber of Mines CEO Roger Baxter
Goldman's most bullish on commodities since supercycle ended
By: Bloomberg 2nd February 2018 Goldman Sachs Group is more bullish on commodities than any time since the end of the supercycle in 2008. As economies around the world pick up, factories are humming, eating into stockpiles of raw materials and driving demand at miners and oil producers already facing limits on output. Copper,... →
Europe to Trump: If you want a trade war, you'll get one
By: Bloomberg 29th January 2018 The European Union gave President Donald Trump a fresh warning about any US curbs on imports from Europe by pledging swift retaliation, highlighting the persistent risk of a trans-Atlantic trade war. The EU fired the shot across the US bow after Trump said in an interview with ITV broadcast over... →
Aluminium maker Norsk Hydro to boost output, cut energy costs
By: Reuters 29th January 2018 Norwegian aluminium maker Norsk Hydro plans to transfer energy-saving technology from a pilot project to primary smelters in the next five to six years, boosting output and cutting costs, the company's head of technology told Reuters. Hydro on Monday announced the start of production at its new... →
Novelis to build $300m aluminium plant amid auto optimism
By: Bloomberg 23rd January 2018 Aluminium flat-rolled products maker Novelis Inc. plans to build a $300 million plant in Kentucky targeted at automotive customers looking to minimise vehicle weight amid more stringent efficiency rules. “It just reiterates the industry’s view on this very strong penetration as the material of... →
China to drive another year of rapid developments in aluminium market
By: Anine Kilian 23rd January 2018 Buoyed by events in China, the aluminium market is expected to see rapid growth in 2018, according to global energy, chemicals, renewables, metals and mining research and consulting group Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac). In its latest aluminium report, the company highlighted that China supply reforms,... →
US Commerce Dept confirms sent Trump aluminium probe results
By: Reuters 23rd January 2018 The US Commerce Department confirmed on Monday that it had submitted the results of its national security investigation into aluminium imports that could lead to broad import restrictions on the lightweight metal. A statement from the agency did not divulge any of the findings of the "Section... →
New ‘disruptive’ mine borer heads for Indaba unveiling
By: Martin Creamer 18th January 2018 A new Proudly South African mine tunnel borer that requires no blasting, delivers higher production advances, comes with a collaboration imprimatur and can be retrofitted to existing operations, will be unveiled at next month’s Mining Indaba in Cape Town and commissioned in the third quarter of... →
Danie Pretorius
BHP second-quarter iron-ore output up 3%, maintains forecast
By: Reuters 18th January 2018 Global miner BHP on Thursday reported a 3% rise in second-quarter iron-ore production year over year and said it expects to meet its full-year target as prices for the steelmaking ingredient outperform forecasts. BHP's iron-ore output climbed to 72-million tonnes for the three months ended... →
Canadian miners welcome new federal business ethics ombudsman
By: Henry Lazenby 18th January 2018 Canada’s Liberal government has introduced a new federally mandated Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) to investigate human rights complaints about the overseas operations of Canadian companies. The watchdog will investigate complaints and, if warranted, will make recommendations to... →
DRA expands Asia-Pacific footprint
By: Martin Creamer 17th January 2018 Global engineering, project delivery, contract operations specialist and asset management group DRA’s acquisition of Perth-based Minnovo expands its Australian footprint and adds depth to its metallurgical, engineering, procurement, project management, construction and commissioning capabilities... →
DRA CEO Wray Carvelas
South32 boasts record manganese, aluminium production in December quarter
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 17th January 2018 Triple-listed diversified miner South32 on Wednesday reported that, while it had achieved its guidance for all its operations during the three months to December 31, its South African manganese operations, in particular, exceeded expectations, owing to strong market demand. Saleable ore... →
South32 CEO Graham Kerr
As stockpiles fall, which metals are really in tight supply?
By: Reuters 16th January 2018 Stocks of industrial metals in London Metal Exchange (LME) warehouses fell more than 40 percent last year and further declines are expected in 2018, which should in theory signal tighter supplies and fuel a blistering price rally. But rising inventories of metals at smaller rival exchanges... →
Glencore reserves should be valued higher – analysts
By: Martin Creamer 15th January 2018 Investors should be prepared to value the reserves of metal that Glencore owns more highly to reward the proactive approach that the London- and Johannesburg-listed diversified mining company has towards managing its assets. Reflecting on the decision of Glencore to pull metal from the market... →
Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg
Smarter mining, manufacture, agriculture needed, says IDC’s Maia 
By: Martin Creamer 12th January 2018 South Africa needs to aim towards smarter mining, smarter agriculture and smarter manufacturing. “It’s about taking all the major sectors of the economy forward, with each feeding on the other,” says Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) research and information head Jorge Maia of the roles... →
Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world
By: Reuters 12th January 2018 Canadian industries that would be most acutely impacted by the death of the North American Free Trade Agreement are unable to meaningfully plan for a possible post-NAFTA world given the uncertainty of what could replace it, analysts and executives said. With three quarters of Canadian exports... →
Strong commodity price rally lifts IHS Materials Price Index for ninth consecutive week
By: Henry Lazenby 12th January 2018 The IHS Materials Price Index (MPI) is in its ninth consecutive week of gains, jumping 2.8% last week – the strongest weekly performance since early September. According to IHS Markit economist Cole Hassay, the MPI was supported by broad-based positive indicators, with eight of ten subcomponents... →
Rio Tinto receives offer for aluminium smelter
By: Martin Creamer 10th January 2018 Diversified mining company Rio Tinto has received a binding offer from Liberty House to acquire Rio Tinto’s Aluminium Dunkerque smelter in northern France for $500-million. In accordance with French law, the London-listed company will launch a consultation process with employees, relevant... →
Liberty House makes binding offer for Rio Tinto's French aluminium smelter
By: Reuters 10th January 2018 Liberty House, the industrial arm of British steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance, said on Wednesday it had made a binding offer for miner Rio Tinto's, aluminium smelter in Dunkerque, France, the largest in Europe. The group did not disclose an offer price but said the move was part of a... →
Steel tycoon considers bid for Rio Tinto's Dunkirk aluminum smelter - sources
By: Reuters 14th December 2017 Liberty House, the industrial and commodities group buying a number of steel assets around the world, is considering a bid for Rio Tinto's aluminium smelter in northern France, the largest in Europe, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Dunkirk plant, which the... →
Moody’s sees stable year ahead for base metals, but also expects some risk factors
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 13th December 2017 Ratings agency Moody’s believes 2018 will be a year of relative stability for the global base metals industry after some recovery was experienced this year. In a 2018 outlook analysis, released on Wednesday, the agency noted that these improved supply/demand fundamentals would hold on the back of... →
Glencore guiding soaring 2018 earnings
By: Martin Creamer 12th December 2017 Diversified mining and marketing company Glencore sees itself as being best placed for the electric vehicle revolution through its ‘tier 1’ copper, cobalt, nickel, zinc and thermal coal assets. The company said in an investor day update on Tuesday that sustainably low-cost and long-life first... →
Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg
Crucial for commodity countries to build economic resilience – Unctad
By: Martin Creamer 11th December 2017 Without policy change, commodity-dependent developing countries risk falling short of achieving their sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) economic affairs officer Stefan Csordas warned on Monday. Unctad and the Food and... →
Cyril Ramaphosa calls for mining sector action 
By: Martin Creamer 11th December 2017 South Africa must urgently break the ongoing deadlock on the regulation and transformation of the mining sector to ensure the proper use of this country’s world-class mineral resources, says Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. In an article on the CR17 Siyavuma campaign website, ahead of this... →
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
Owner’s engineer role by ‘Proudly South African’ Erudite pleasing Perth
By: Martin Creamer 8th December 2017 New ‘Proudly South African’ start-up Erudite Strategies has hit a rich vein of acceptance in Australia, where investors in junior mining projects in Africa are showing alacrity in taking up its unique client representative and owner’s engineer offering. Each of Erudite’s three leading lights has... →
Glencore-Canada venture hitched to low-carbon economy shift
By: Martin Creamer 5th December 2017 The joint venture partnership Glencore struck with a Canadian pension plan on Tuesday provides exposure to commodities that benefit from a low-carbon economy. BaseCore Metals, a 50:50 partnership centred on base metals streams and royalties, involves Glencore Canada Corporation contributing a... →
Change or lose another 100 000 mining jobs – Cutifani
By: Martin Creamer 4th December 2017 Without change, the South African mining industry would lose another 100 000 jobs, said Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani, who six years ago accurately predicted the recent 100 000 job demise in South African mining. “I'll say it again, absent of change, we’ll lose another 100 000 jobs,” the... →
Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani
Dassault Systèmes heralding in new autonomous mining era
By: Martin Creamer 30th November 2017 The 'mine of tomorrow' is expected to be a factory-like entity equipped with a multiplicity of autonomous devices, which are controlled by technology savvy personnel working from remote centres, attendees of the natural resources forum heard in Sandton on Thursday. The ‘mine of tomorrow’ would... →
Metro Mining reaches commission stage at Bauxite Hills
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 29th November 2017 ASX-listed Metro Mining on Wednesday reported that all major marine infrastructure at its Bauxite Hills mine had reached practical completion including the barge loading facility (BLF), marine offloading facility, cyclone moorings, navigational aids and tidal gauge. The project is within budget... →
Withdrawal of entire MPRDA only constitutionally acceptable solution – Leon
By: Martin Creamer 28th November 2017 The process of reconsidering the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) Amendment Bill has generated a new range of procedural missteps and failed to address any of the substantive problems in the Bill, leaving the entire withdrawal of the Bill as the only constitutionally... →
Herbert Smith Freehills Africa co-chair and partner Peter Leon.
South32 okays R4.3bn project, eyes JSE for rejigged energy coal
By: Martin Creamer 27th November 2017 Diversified mining and metals company South32 on Monday approved the R4.3-billion, 20-year Klipspruit life extension project at South Africa Energy Coal (SAEC), and at the same time set out to turn its South African energy coal business into a standalone entity, earmarked for further empowerment... →
'A good number of investors' considering countries offering better return-on-investment prospects than SA
By: Dylan Slater 17th November 2017 Mining policies imposed by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on local industry are creating increased uncertainty for investors, a growing number of whom are considering investing in mining projects and exploration in other countries, with a greater chance of a healthier return on... →
PAUL MILLER A significant volume of additional capital needs to be earmarked for every new mining project to account for risk associated with policy uncertainty
Investor TCI demands UK's LSE answer more questions in board tussle
By: Reuters 16th November 2017 Activist investor TCI has demanded the London Stock Exchange answer a series of questions ahead of a shareholder meeting called by the fund to oust the chairperson over his handling of the planned replacement of its chief executive. Among the questions TCI wants answered by the LSE board before... →
Mining technology gets boost from new Wits-Sibanye partnership
By: Martin Creamer 9th November 2017 Mining technology is being given a Fourth Industrial Revolution boost through the new partnership struck between precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater and the Wits Mining Institute. Wits Mining Institute director Professor Fred Cawood outlined in a news release on Thursday that... →
BMI forecasts bright spots in global aluminium industry
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 7th November 2017 Global aluminium producers are likely to experience solid financial recoveries in the year ahead, following years of financial austerity, as prices remain elevated, global research firm BMI said on Tuesday. This would result in targeted acquisitions of specific, value-added aluminium producers... →
Bristow, Friedland may go head-to-head in on-stage copper-gold debate
By: Martin Creamer 7th November 2017 Dr Mark Bristow of Randgold Resources and Robert Friedland of Ivanhoe Mines may go head-to-head in a live on-stage gold-versus-copper debate at the Investing in African Mining Indaba event at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from February 5 to 8, Mining Indaba MD Alex Grose disclosed... →
Investing in African Mining Indaba MD Alex Grose (right) and Martin Creamer
Canadian junior mining sector riding renewed wave of confidence
By: Henry Lazenby 7th November 2017 Despite signs of improved investor confidence in Canada's prolific junior mining sector – mainly driven by rising consumer technology demand for resources – analysts are warning that the market recovery is in a delicate phase and will require discipline to survive until more substantial commodity... →
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