11+ mon, 4+ day ago   (430+ words) MINERALS Council SA president Paul Dunne warned that industry and Government discussions over the proposed minerals legislation should not result in “inappropriate policy responses to mis-diagnosed problems”. Speaking at the Joburg Indaba conference on Wednesday, Dunne called for rational decisions…...

10+ mon, 5+ day ago   (516+ words) A MINE can take at least a decade to build. One rule of thumb is that a mineral deposit discovered during the exuberance of one commodity cycle is not converted into metal until the optimism of the next. There are…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (67+ words) Miningmx is a digital publication which provides independent news and analysis related to the African mining sector. The publication does not republish the content of other news vendors and focuses on... Josef El-Raghy, Chairman of Centamin Egypt Limited, speaks during…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (637+ words) SOUTH Africa’s gold industry has been dwindling for years. Once supplying 83% of all production outside the Soviet bloc, the country doesn’t feature in the global top 10 today. Even before this decline, the focus had shifted from gold mining’s central Joburg…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (373+ words) PAN African Resources said on Thursday it was studying plans for the R2.8bn expansion of its Johannesburg tailings operations to nearly 100,000 ounces of gold a year. The company currently mines about 50,000 oz annually from the Mintails Tailings Retreatment (MTR) facility, which…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (670+ words) THE Fraser Institute’s 2025 Annual Survey of Mining Companies, a global dipstick of investor sentiments towards mining jurisdictions, has once again highlighted South Africa’s mineral potential. But it also demonstrated the urgent and critical need for a pragmatic, attractive regulatory environment…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago   (487+ words) ZIMBABWE’S crumbling rail system may be worse than even South Africa’s. It is a huge stumbling block for its mining industry, raising transport costs and making local minerals less competitive globally. The poor rail infrastructure, as in South Africa, is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (431+ words) OVER the course of the past two decades, South Africa has been in a form of economic drift, at times forgetting its economic roots. The foundations on which this country was built and the industries that shaped it have been…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1117+ words) NORTHAM Platinum CEO Paul Dunne might joke that “there’s no luck in mining”, but fortune has certainly favoured his company in the past few months. For starters, resource investment company BlackRock upped its stake in the company to 5% last week,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (816+ words) SOUTH32 is waiting for firm proposals from minority shareholders in Mozal Aluminium before progressing recently hatched plans to sell the 370,000 ton a year Mozambique smelter. South32, which has a 63.7% stake in Mozal, placed the facility on care and maintenance in March after…...