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Mining Indaba roundup 
By: Creamer Media Reporter 13th February 2015 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the 2015 Mining Indaba. →
Coal task team to intensify dialogue
By: Creamer Media Reporter 6th February 2015 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi’s coal task team and the future prospects for the mineral. →
Glencore mulls closure of some SA coal operations
By: Creamer Media Reporter 29th January 2015 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about diversified mining major Glencore possible closure of some of its coal-mining operations in South Africa. →
RBCT targets export of 74m tons of coal in 2015 
22nd January 2015 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about Richards Bay Coal Terminal's target of 74-million tons of coal for export in 2015. →
Junior coal miners shut up shop
By: Creamer Media Reporter 15th January 2015 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about cash-strapped junior coal developers applying for voluntary administration and suspending their shares on stock exchanges. →
Gemfields rakes in $43m from Southern African rubies
By: Creamer Media Reporter 11th December 2014 Creamer Media's Natalie Greve speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about gemstone company Gemfields' record revenues at a five-day ruby auction in Singapore. →
Secret platinum stocks declining
By: Creamer Media Reporter 4th December 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the declining volume of vaulted platinum holdings being held confidentially. →
R10bn aluminium supply deal signed with black consortium
By: Creamer Media Reporter 27th November 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about BHP Billiton's R10-billion, five-year liquid metal supply contract with Isizinda Alumnium. →
CAR: Blood diamond hub
By: Creamer Media Reporter 20th November 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the dysfunctional Central African Republic, which has taken over as the country where “blood diamond” activity is again rife. →
Lonmin shares rise as workers help prevent shaft closure
By: Creamer Media Reporter 13th November 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about Lonmin's employees throwing their weight behind productivity improvement, which is helping the company to generate cash. →
AngloGold targeting ton of new tech gold in 2015
By: Creamer Media Reporter 6th November 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about AngloGold Ashanti's target of a ton of new technology gold next year. →
South Africa’s underground coal Gasification roadmap on way
30th October 2014 Creamer Media's Tracy Hancock talks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the development of a roadmap for underground coal gasification in South Africa by the Fossil Fuel Foundation, which celebrates it’s twentieth year in existence. →
Northam Platinum’s funded R6.6bn BEE deal
By: Creamer Media Reporter 23rd October 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about Northam Platinum’s fully funded R6.6-billion black economic-empowerment deal. →
X2 sitting on $5bn war chest
By: Creamer Media Reporter 17th October 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhov speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about X2 Resources garnering another $1-billion to take the incipient mining company towards financial reserves of close on $5-billion. →
Modernise SA mining or bust
By: Creamer Media Reporter 9th October 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the need to modernise and mechanise South Africa's mining industry. →
Debate needed on ways to reduce high rail costs
2nd October 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the need for a national debate to discuss ways of lowering the high cost of railing bulk commodities like coal. →
Pallinghurst invests in low-energy smelt alternative
By: Creamer Media Reporter 25th September 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about diversified miner Pallinghurst's investment in a low-energy hydrometallurgical alternative to high-energy smelting. →
AngloGold Ashanti restructuring
12th September 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about Johannesburg- and New York-listed gold-mining major AngloGold Ashanti's surprise spin-off. →
SA’s mining legal framework problematic
By: Creamer Media Reporter 5th September 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about South Africa's mining legal framework. →
Absolute change needed to mine remaining 1.1bn gold ounces
By: Creamer Media Reporter 28th August 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the change needed to mine the Witwatersrand basin's remaining 1.1-billion resource ounces of gold that current mining methods cannot economically extract. →
BHP Billiton spins out Newco
22nd August 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about BHP Billiton's proposed demerging of assets into Newco. →
SA still best mining address
15th August 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the 2014 Mining Lekgotla. →
Hydrogen breakthrough rekindles fuel-cell excitement
By: Creamer Media Reporter 7th August 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the breakthrough that gives stored hydrogen diesel-like characteristics for safe and efficient long-term energy storage. →
SA coal productivity lags behind Australia
By: Creamer Media Reporter 1st August 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about South Africa's lagging coal productivity compared with Australia's. →
Kumba’s cash return to black shareholders
24th July 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about Kumba Iron Ore subsidiary Sishen Iron Ore Company's R1.8-billion return to its black economically empowered entities. →
High-Tech mining flies into SA
By: Creamer Media Reporter 18th July 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about French software company Dassault Systèmes' advanced technology that is well-suited to mining. →
Underground diamond mine to have automated truck loop
By: Creamer Media Reporter 11th July 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about automation in De Beers Consolidated Mines’ Venetia underground diamond mine in Limpopo. →
Gold industry bust at $1 300/oz
By: Creamer Media Reporter 3rd July 2014 Creamer Media’s Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the gold industry. →
Kilobar contract to spark gold demand
By: Creamer Media Reporter 26th June 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the launch of the exchange-traded gold kilobar contract in Singapore. →
Mining features strongly in State of the Nation address
By: Yolande Botes 20th June 2014 Creamer Media's Tracy Hancock speaks to Engineering News editor Terence Creamer about President Jacob Zuma's June 2014 State of the Nation address. →
Global Top 40 mining companies’ performance
By: Creamer Media Reporter 12th June 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly senior online writer Leandi Kolver about the global top 40 mining companies' performance in 2013. →
Gold, platinum price transparency
By: Creamer Media Reporter 5th June 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about the need for full transparency in the determination of the gold and platinum price. →
Gold miners buck the price trend
By: Creamer Media Reporter 29th May 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about gold mining companies Randgold Resources and Pan African Resources remaining profitable in this last financial year, despite the low gold price. →
AngloGold churns out 1 600 oz using new technology
By: Creamer Media Reporter 22nd May 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about AngloGold Ashanti's new South African Technology Project, which has has produced 1 600 oz of gold so far. →
DRDGold technology falters
By: Creamer Media Reporter 15th May 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about DRDGold’s Ergo gold recovery plant, on Gauteng’s East Rand, which is set to become a massive real-time research centre in an effort to reboot the faltering new FFG circuit. →
Fast opencast colliery rehabilitation
By: Creamer Media Reporter 2nd May 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about Anglo American Thermo Coal's bioconversion technology that is able to rehabilitate opencast colliery areas in just six months. →
Potential platinum loss
By: Creamer Media Reporter 25th April 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about platinum's huge potential opportunity loss for the economy, but also provides insight on how the industry could be saved through the uptake of fuel cells. →
Gemfields rolls out ‘the art of colour’
16th April 2014 Creamer Media's Shannon de Ryhove speaks to Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer about gemstones miner Gemfields' 'art of colour' strategy. →
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