After the deaths of three employees who got trapped in a control room, workers allege that management frequently coerces them to bypass health and safety procedures
There are three charges against the company. Two from 2013 and one from 2016
ArcelorMittal, charged with toxic air and water pollution, seems to have bulldozed through graves to create a perimeter fence
Government interest in the pollution claims appears to have been aroused by Constitutional Court action launched against President Thabo Mbeki
The company is unable to stop the emission of the pollutants and is asking for more time upgrade parts so that it can comply with the law.
Amsa’s record fine for price collusion comes at a time when protection is topping the agenda.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that the Sishen Iron Ore Company is the exclusive holder of a converted mining right on Sishen Mine properties.
But the strategy to boost industry has a major stumbling block: readily available power.
The North Gauteng High Court has ruled that Sishen Iron Ore Company holds 100% of the mining rights over Sishen — the country’s largest iron mine.
ArcelorMittal SA has dropped its acquisition of Imperial Crown Trading for R800-million.
Court case could lead to collapse of multibillion-rand ICT and BEE deals.
Corruption, incompetence and policy uncertainty are scaring off investors.
Duduzane Zuma and the Guptas are at it again — they will benefit from a proposed Indian steel investment bolstered by government intervention.
If Kumba and ICT can claim ownership of rights to 21,4% of the mine for the price of a R500 application fee, why not a member of the public?
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/ 17 December 2010
It may no longer be business as usual for South African companies operating in Zimbabwe.
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/ 10 December 2010
Cabinet has announced the appointment of Elias Masilela, a senior Sanlam executive as the chief executive of the Public Investment Corporation.
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/ 26 November 2010
The debacle over the award of lapsed mining rights in the Sishen iron ore mine could be used by government to force Amsa to cut in steel prices.
The Gupta family, friends of President Jacob Zuma, were key to the agreement to sell prospecting rights at Sishen to steel conglomerate ArcelorMittal.
ArcelorMittal has defended it’s much-criticised BEE deal to Parliament, saying that "controversy is not the same as corruption".
Remember this moment of media tribunals and the misappropriation of mines — it is the hinge around which our future will pivot.
The arrival of a new newspaper on the scene always evokes interest, not only among newspaper people.
A company with deep links to the ANC has emerged as the key factor in the row between steel giant Arcelor Mittal, and mining house Kumba Iron Ore.
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/ 26 September 2009
Strike Matsepe used his savings to buy a plot of land near the country’s biggest steel mill, hoping it would become a thriving farm in his old age.
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/ 24 November 2008
ArcelorMittal SA has said it will cut prices for a third month running while expecting fourth-quarter earnings to fall.
Steel prices are set to rise this month, bringing the total increases in some product lines to 72% — even though scrap metal prices have fallen.
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/ 12 January 2008
The death toll in a Kazakh coal mine explosion rose to 30 on Sunday when authorities gave up hope of rescuing 23 trapped miners and said they could not have survived. ”The high temperatures and the high concentration of carbon oxide … have made their survival impossible,” the Emergencies Ministry said.
The Competition Commission has recommended the prohibition of a merger between Arcelor Mittal and Duferco Steel Processing. The merger would ”substantially prevent or lessen competition”, the commission said in a statement on Thursday.