6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (786+ words) Governments across Africa are seeking to assert greater control over their mineral wealth by rewriting mining codes, demanding larger equity stakes or greater local participation, scrapping investment stability agreements and, in several cases, seizing assets outright. Even Ghana, long considered…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (459+ words) THARISA, the JSE-listed platinum and chrome miner, is preparing an initial five-year $300m bond with the proceeds aimed at plugging the balance of its $545m Karo Platinum project in Zimbabwe. Meetings with potential investors are scheduled to take place from today, with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (223+ words) India has resumed talks with Zambia over potential investments in copper and other critical minerals as it looks overseas to secure raw materials for its growing economy, Reuters reported. Officials from India’s Ministry of Mines held preliminary discussions with their…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (679+ words) WHEN 87 illegal miners died underground at Stilfontein in 2024 – and 1,826 surfaced from abandoned shafts – the event was a symptom, not an aberration. The uncomfortable truth for South Africa is that illegal mining has become endemic, feeding on poverty, unemployment, and decades…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (238+ words) THARISA’S Karo Platinum project in Zimbabwe has secured a 25-year Special Mining Lease Agreement with the Government of Zimbabwe. This, the company says, provides the tenure and fiscal certainty needed to advance the project towards first production. The agreement was…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1735+ words) THE last time gold was as valuable, prospectors, gamblers, bounders and other rakes were united in scouring the globe – from California to Johannesburg – with their pickaxes and pans in search of a few grains of gold. It’s not as though…...