A vast underground network on the East Rand provides riches for those prepared to take the risk, writes Lisa Steyn.
A qualified audit is playing into the hands of a mineworkers’ union faction vying for control.
South Africa’s mining industry needs a tax regime that keeps it globally competitive, says Minister for Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu.
While Gauteng isn’t known as an agricultural force, farming plays a major role in the province’s economy.
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/ 17 February 2012
Impoverished miners have held a marathon march across a platinum-rich corner of the country to demand Xstrata share more wealth.
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/ 15 February 2012
Union says government’s rejection of the full scale implementation of nationalisation in favour of a mixed economy is worrying for mining’s future.
Africa’s mineral wealth continues to evoke debate.
Zimbabwe has hiked mining exploration fees almost 2 000% to $1-million in a bid to curb speculation, a state daily reported on Wednesday.
Chilean rescuers were close on Friday to ending the ordeal of 33 miners buried alive for two months deep underground after a cave-in.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on Wednesday tried to attract UK businesses to invest in SA, particularly in the troubled mining sector.
Mining operations in Africa could be driving the whole continent’s tuberculosis epidemic, a new Oxford-led study has found.
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/ 18 February 2010
Kumba Iron Ore on Thursday reported a dip in full-year headline earnings, but said production and export sales were up, and output would rise further.
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/ 26 October 2009
Harmony Gold confirmed on Monday that two employees had been killed in a rockfall at its Target Mine in the Free State.
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/ 20 October 2009
ANCYL leader Julius Malema envisages a South Africa where the state owns 60% of all mines to ”generate extra income” for the government.
SA’s mining sector has shed close to 30 000 jobs due to the global economic downturn, but avoided greater losses, a senior official said.
Zimbabwe’s Parliament will debate legal reforms badly needed by the battered economy, including the crucial mining sector, in coming weeks.
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/ 17 September 2009
Zimbabwe is ready to consider easing proposed rules that would force foreign mining firms to give local businesses majority stakes, a minister said.
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/ 16 September 2009
Zimbabwe has approved 15 mining projects worth -million since February this year, the minister for economic planning said on Wednesday.
The Cabinet has approved a suspension on the disposal of mining assets currently held by state entities, a government spokesperson said on Thursday.
Recent calls to nationalise South Africa’s mines are economically illiterate — but may gather popular support.
Thandile Qwalela died in the tuberculosis ward of his Eastern Cape district hospital at the age of 48.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Friday backed a call by ANCYL president Julius Malema for mine nationalisation.
A total of 277 workers died in SA mines in the past year, almost half of them in illegal operations, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu says.
SA’s mining industry has been hard hit by lower commodity prices due to the global economic downturn, Minister of Minerals Susan Shabangu says.
Mooinooi, a one-employer town, where many workers have a single skill, is hurting badly as a result of Wall Street’s excesses.
In environmentally sensitive areas politically connected companies seek to cash in on the country’s coal resources, writes Yolandi Groenewald.
The NUM on Wednesday called for Harmony to take full responsibility for the death of illegal miners at its operations in the Free State.
At least 61 miners were killed when fire tore through an abandoned gold shaft in one of South Africa’s deadliest mine accidents.
British mining group Lonmin said on Monday it was seeking -million from shareholders after suffering a first-half net loss.
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, has taken proactive steps to help it over the current global economic conditions.
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/ 20 February 2009
Anglo American scrapped its 2008 final dividend on Friday to conserve cash and said it will cut 19 000 jobs.
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/ 19 February 2009
Mvelaphanda Resources on Thursday announced plans that would see the company restructured with a view to delisting.