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Precious metal refiners face new LBMA environmental standard 
By: Martin Creamer 7th February 2019 The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) has launched a new standard that addresses environmental as well as sustainability issues in gold and silver markets. To do that in a credible way, LBMA has been actively engaging with mining companies and producer nations. →
Junior mining fund under discussion – Minerals Council
By: Martin Creamer 6th February 2019 A government-initiated fund for prospectors and developers is under discussion with the Public Investment Corporation and the Industrial Development Corporation, Minerals Council South Africa emerging mining head Grant Mitchell said on Wednesday. Speaking at a media conference at the Investment... →
Minerals Council executive Tebello Chabana
Minerals Council’s national platinum strategy targets real potential
By: Martin Creamer 6th February 2019 Minerals Council South Africa on Wednesday launched a national platinum strategy, which aims at sustaining a million jobs and contributing R8.2-trillion to South Africa’s economy by 2050. Speaking at a media conference at Investing in African Mining Indaba on Wednesday, Minerals Council CEO Roger... →
Minerals Council CEO Roger Baxter
De Beers to spend R30m on diamond exploration this year
By: Martin Creamer 6th February 2019 De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) will spend R30-million on greenfield diamond exploration in South Africa this year, DBCM MD Phillip Barton told Mining Weekly Online on the sidelines of the Investing in African Mining Indaba. This follows DBCM being granted 32 exploration licences across a... →
Ramaphosa challenges mining to take ten value-adding steps 
By: Martin Creamer 5th February 2019 President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday challenged the mining industry to take ten value-adding steps to hoist the industry into a potent new orbit across the entire continent. Addressing the Investing in African Mining Indaba, the president said he wished to issue a challenge against the background... →
Barrick’s Bristow calls for a mindset change in the gold industry
By: Kim Cloete 5th February 2019 Mark Bristow, the president and CEO of gold producer Barrick Gold has accused mining companies, investors and host countries of succumbing to the desire of instant gratification and for not investing deeply in the industry. He called for a mindset change in an industry that has been plagued with... →
Barrick Gold president and CEO Mark Bristow
Time to make Africa prosperous – Ghana President
By: Martin Creamer 5th February 2019 It is time for Africa to make itself and its people prosperous by making use of mineral resources and modern technology to create a new world shorn of greed and cupidity, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday. In an opening address on the second day of the Investing in African Mining... →
Mining green shoots sprouting – Minerals Council
By: Martin Creamer 4th February 2019 Green shoots are sprouting in South Africa’s mining sector, which is readying for new take off, Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter said on Monday. In a briefing on the State of the Mining Nation on the sidelines of the opening day of the Investing in African Mining Indaba, Baxter told... →
Mining 'walking into a brighter future' – Makwana
By: Martin Creamer 4th February 2019 Mining was walking into a brighter future and the appetite for mining investment was strengthening, attendees of the Investing in African Mining Indaba heard on Monday. Opening the 25th consecutive Investing in African Mining Indaba Cape Town, attention was drawn to stepped up investment in... →
Katanga advances cobalt debottlenecking project
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 1st February 2019 Katanga Mining, which is a subsidiary of diversified major Glencore, says its cobalt debottlenecking project is progressing on schedule. In an update to shareholders published on Friday, the Democratic Republic of Congo-based company said three new filter presses, a magnesium oxide reagent plant... →
Glencore’s FY18 copper, cobalt output up on restart of Katanga processing operations
1st February 2019 Diversified miner Glencore on Friday reported an 11% year-on-year increase in its copper production and a 54% year-on-year increase in its cobalt output, mainly as a result of the restart of Democratic Republic of Congo- (DRC-) based subsidiary Katanga Mining’s processing operations in late 2017.... →
Exxaro upbeat about its coal operations
By: Kim Cloete 1st February 2019 Empowered coal mining giant Exxaro Resources is confident about its prospects in the coal sector, despite tough conditions and rising cost pressures in South Africa. Exxaro executive head of coal Nombasa Tsengwa on Thursday said the company produced 47-million tons of coal and was geared to grow... →
Invest in clean technology to counter the siege on the coal industry, Mantashe implores
By: Kim Cloete 31st January 2019 The coal industry needs to counter the negative attitude towards the industry by investing in clean coal technology and funding research initiatives to find alternative markets for coal, says Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. He told delegates at the opening of the fourteenth annual... →
Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe
PGM-using patents abound – CPM
By: Martin Creamer 31st January 2019 Viable patents that involve the use of platinum group metals (PGMs) should be commercialised so that PGMs become less dependent on the automotive market, says CPM Group MD and founder Jeffrey Christian. CPM’s current projections, which are similar to those in the automotive and electricity supply... →
Ivanhoe reports ‘unprecedented’ copper intersection in the DRC
By: Creamer Media Reporter 31st January 2019 The Kamoa North prospect area has delivered an “unprecedented” 22.3-m intersection of 13.05% copper in a thick, flat-lying deposit, sending Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines share price up 10% on the TSX on Wednesday. The new drill hole at the Democratic Republic of Congo-based project includes grades of... →
Gold gets a safe-haven boost – Refinitiv’s GFMS report
By: Nadine James 30th January 2019 Gold has benefitted in the fourth quarter of 2018 from investors seeking safe-havens, the latest GFMS Gold Survey, which Refinitiv released on Wednesday, states. Renewed interest from professional investors and a shift in the purchasing behaviour of emerging market central banks have compensated... →
Minerals Council's Langenhoven warns of tipping point for mining if electricity tariffs increase by 15% a year
By: Nadine James 30th January 2019 State-owned utility Eskom’s proposed tariff increases would cost some 150 000 direct mining jobs, all but eliminate the gold sector and, as a consequence, reduce Eskom’s mining client base by around 36%, thereby exacerbating the utility’s “death spiral”, Minerals Council South Africa chief... →
Iron-ore rockets as Vale supply disruption convulses market
By: Bloomberg 30th January 2019 The global iron-ore market was pitched into turmoil after Brazil’s Vale SA, the world’s largest producer, outlined plans to cut output after a deadly dam breach, buoying shares of rivals as investors weighed the impact of the disruption. Prices soared, with futures rallying more than 9%. Vale... →
Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman
Gemfields agrees settlement of £5.8m pertaining to claims by Leigh Day
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 29th January 2019 Gemfields announced on Tuesday that it has agreed, on a no-admission-of-liability basis, the settlement of all claims brought by law firm Leigh Day on behalf of individuals living in the vicinity of Montepuez Ruby Mining’s (MRM’s) mining concession in northern Mozambique. Gemfields holds a 75%... →
Palladium theft rampant – FT
By: Martin Creamer 29th January 2019 Palladium, used in catalytic converters that reduce harmful petrol vehicle emissions, is catalysing a crime wave in the UK, says the Financial Times (FT) of London. “Thieves are stealing catalytic converters – often in broad daylight – and selling the devices to illegal scrap dealers for cash,”... →
A bar of palladium.
De Beers sells $505m rough diamonds in first sales cycle
By: Simone Liedtke 29th January 2019 Diamond producer De Beers on Tuesday reported that rough diamond sales in this year's first sale cycle had reached $505-million. This is $167-million less than the $672-million earned in the first sales cycle of 2018. →
Sulaiman resigns as Wescoal CEO
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 28th January 2019 Waheed Sulaiman has resigned as CEO and director of Wescoal with effect from January 31. Wescoal’s board is in the process of recruiting a new CEO. →
Ramaphosa to speak at Mining Indaba
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 28th January 2019 President Cyril Ramaphosa has been confirmed as a speaker for the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2019, which will be held in Cape Town from February 4 to 7. He is set to bring his investment agenda to the landmark twenty-fifth edition of the Indaba when he delivers an address on February 5. →
Petra delivers solid H1 output, says diamond market outlook remains stable
By: Simone Liedtke 28th January 2019 LSE-listed Petra Diamonds delivered solid production, along with a “continued improvement” in its safety performance, in the first half of the 2019 financial year. CEO Johan Dippenaar on Monday said the mining company, which operates the Cullinan, Finsch and Koffiefontein mines, in South Africa,... →
Petra Diamonds CEO Johan Dippenaar
Pan African’s newly commissioned tailings plant boosts H1 gold output
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th January 2019 JSE- and Aim-listed Pan African Resources’ production for the six months ended December 31, 2018, increased by 54.2% year-on-year to 81 014 oz on the back of a robust operational performance at the Barberton complex and from its newly commissioned tailings retreatment plant. Gold production... →
MC Mining mitigates Uitkomst challenges, focuses on developing new projects
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th January 2019 Despite having experienced a challenging quarter ended December 31 – the company’s second quarter of the 2019 financial year – ASX-, Aim- and JSE-listed MC Mining remains positive about the prospects for the full year. The company reported decreased run-of-mine (ROM) production from its... →
MC Mining CEO David Brown
Competition Appeal Court to hold Sibanye, Lonmin merger hearing on April 2
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th January 2019 JSE- and NYSE-listed Sibanye-Stillwater on Friday announced that the Competition Appeal Court of South Africa had set April 2 as the date to hear the appeal filed by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) against Sibanye’s planned takeover of LSE- and JSE-listed Lonmin.... →
Anglo American delivers solid Q4 performance
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 24th January 2019 Diversified miner Anglo American achieved a 7% year-on-year increase in total production on a copper equivalent basis for the fourth quarter of 2018, excluding the effect of the stoppage at its Minas-Rio iron-ore mine, in Brazil. “Our continuing focus on efficiency and productivity improvements... →
RBCT coal exports decline
By: Martin Creamer 24th January 2019 Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) exported 73.47-million tonnes of coal in 2018, 4.1% less than in 2017. The main export destination of the South African-mined coal was Asia at 81.6%. →
JV projects contribute to 3% y/y increase in Amplats’ Q4 PGM output
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 24th January 2019 Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) produced 1.26-million ounces of platinum-group metals (PGMs) in the fourth quarter of 2018 – a 3% increase on the 1.22-million ounces produced in the fourth quarter of 2017. Amplats attributed the increase to an improved operational performance, particularly at... →
Kropz anticipates first phosphate ore from long-awaited Elandsfontein by year-end
By: Marleny Arnoldi 23rd January 2019 Aim-listed emerging phosphate producer Kropz is finalising the design of processing plant upgrades at its 74%-owned Elandsfontein project, in South Africa, with first ore to be produced by the end of the year. The mine will ramp up to steady-state production of one-million tonnes a year during... →
Ghana pledges no repeat of incursions at AngloGold mine
By: Bloomberg 23rd January 2019 Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo pledged that the incursion of illegal miners which forced AngloGold Ashanti to evacuate its Obuasi operation won’t be repeated. Speaking at a ceremony that marked the reopening of the century-old mine in the south of the country, Akufo-Addo said Tuesday that the... →
Gold Fields denies interest to merge with AngloGold Ashanti
By: Marleny Arnoldi 23rd January 2019 JSE- and NYSE-listed Gold Fields has denied that it wants to merge with its competitor AngloGold Ashanti, stating that an article published by Bloomberg on Tuesday was factually incorrect. Bloomberg quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying Gold Fields wanted to merge with AngloGold as... →
Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland
Sibanye considering AMCU memorandum
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 22nd January 2019 Sibanye-Stillwater is considering the memorandum of demands submitted to the Minerals Council South Africa (MCSA) by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) on Tuesday. AMCU marched to the MCSA to submit the memorandum, while its members continue to strike at Sibanye’s gold... →
New vehicle technology uses cobalt
By: Martin Creamer 22nd January 2019 A promising new vehicle technology, which uses a cobalt-based catalyst, mirrors the world’s current ‘well-to-wheel’ refuelling ecosystem in being designed to allow motorists to call at conventional petrol stations to fill up with the liquid fuel from which hydrogen is extracted and then converted... →
Car that uses fuel consisting of mainly water converted into hydrogen and then electricity.
Universal achieves steady increase in production, earnings in Q2
By: Marleny Arnoldi 22nd January 2019 ASX-listed Universal Coal is on track to achieve forecast earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) guidance of A$93-million for the 2019 financial year. The coal miner achieved Ebitda of A$30.5-million, of which A$17-million was attributable, for the quarter ended... →
Zambia’s mining tax places Lumwana in ‘challenging situation’ – Barrick’s Jacobs
By: Simone Liedtke 21st January 2019 NYSE- and TSX-listed Barrick Gold has not sold its biggest copper mine, Lumwana, in Zambia, but given the challenging conditions the mine is facing, “all options" are on the table. The Canada-headquartered company on Monday said that it was continuing to engage with the Zambian government and... →
Sandfire approaches MOD with merger proposal
By: Esmarie Iannucci 21st January 2019 Botswana-focused MOD Resources went into a trading halt on the ASX on Monday after Australian copper miner Sandfire Resources confirmed that it had approached the junior to express its interest in exploring a potential merger. Responding to media reports overnight, Sandfire said that the... →
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