Gold Fields’ South Deep hopes to turn the situation around with its super driller and indications are that extraction will shift from 85% to 93%.
Investors have been betting on gold as a safe option during a year of tumult and uncertainty
Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising
to come online only after Gauteng’s peak
AngloGold head Kelvin Dushnisky views Harmony’s Gold purchase of Mponeng as a positive step for the future of the mine
A South African businessperson living in Canada has managed to sell his collection of four gold castings of Nelson Mandela’s hands
Analysts said the suits could cost the industry hundreds of millions of dollars in the largest class action in Africa’s most industrialised country.
The fire is believed to have started while maintenance work was being carried out on an air cooler.
An improved gold price and higher-quality ore saw the gold miner benefit in spite of a number of production challenges.
Our weekly roundup includes the Harmony Gold mining tragedy, Sochi’s Olympic-sized woes, the Zille-Ramphele debacle, and a lesson on good looks.
Operations at Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine will halt until the area is declared safe, says mineral resources minister Susan Shabangu.
While the search continues for one miner after the news of the death of eight others, the minister will visit Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine.
Reports say the bodies of eight miners have been recovered after a fire and rock fall at a gold mine in Jo’burg, while one miner remains missing.
Rescue workers have reached eight miners trapped in Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine after an earthquake damaged electric cables, triggering a fire.
Nine miners remain unnaccounted for while eight are trapped in a refuge bay a mile underground after a fire broke out at Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine.
Harmony looks to the Constitutional Court to reverse a ruling that cost it millions.
Acquisitions could help the industry survive cost increases and lower commodity prices.
Gold’s decline has resulted in thousands of job losses and closed mines like Blyvoorzicht, which has left behind miners who can only cling to hope.
Gold producers and labour groups appear too far apart in pay talks to reach a settlement, according to the majority union.
South African gold-mining stocks surged to a four-year high as the nation’s currency plummeted and pushed the rand-price of gold higher.
The South Gauteng High Court has been scheduled to hear an urgent application to grant miners access to Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine hostel.
Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine was in a dire position as a result of unprotected labour action last year, and might have to retrench workers.
First half of 2013 will remain tense as wage talks and possible job losses loom large, writes Chantelle Benjamin.
Stranded workers have been seeking legal recourse after operations were suspended due to ongoing violence. Kwanele Sosibo reports.
Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine could be shut permanently, ending about 6 000 jobs, after managers received death threats and police were shot at.
A sit-in by about 1700 workers at the Harmony Gold Kusasalethu mine has ended, the company has said.
Two people have been shot dead at Harmony Gold’s mine in Carletonville, seemingly thanks to rivalry between NUM and Amcu members at the mine.
Harmony Gold is "pleased and encouraged" that workers at its Kusasalethu operations abided a 6am ultimatum to return to work to avoid being fired.
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/ 19 October 2012
After nearly two months of wildcat strikes, mine workers are divided some are throwing in the towel, whereas others are sticking to high wage demands.
An SA lawyer says he is preparing to sue leading gold miners on behalf of former miners who contracted respiratory ailments such as silicosis.
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/ 1 December 2011
Harmony Gold has said it does not intend selling its Joel mine in Johannesburg after rumours Wits Gold intended on buying the operations.
Gold miners will join the nationwide industrial action this week and threaten supply of the precious metal at a time when gold is at a record high.
Harmony Gold said on Tuesday that a mine in it had shut after a fatality last week will reopen with the morning shift on Wednesday.