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/ 12 February 2009
The index of total mining production was 7,5% lower in 2008 compared with 2007 and was at the lowest level since 2000, according to Stats SA.
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/ 11 February 2009
Jabu Maphalala of the South African Chamber of Mines on Wednesday said the R1,8-billion boost for mining outlined in the budget was a welcome relief.
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/ 10 February 2009
South Africa expects the metal price downturn to get worse and affect the economy further through capital flight and job losses.
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/ 2 February 2009
A report of an audit on 355 mines across South Africa on Monday revealed that mine safety was below target at just 66%.
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/ 3 December 2008
Another 1 000 permanent and contractual jobs could be lost in the mining industry, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday.
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/ 2 December 2008
A task team has been set up to look at how to avert retrenchments in the mining sector, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
Harmony Gold is bullish on gold mining and has raised production to benefit from higher rand prices for gold, CEO Graham Briggs was quoted as saying.
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/ 25 November 2008
BHP Billiton announced on Tuesday it was dropping its controversial hostile takeover bid for rival Rio Tinto due to the state of the global economy.
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/ 18 November 2008
Lonmin on Tuesday said it planned to suspend all its opencast operations from the end of this year as it scales back on unprofitable ounces.
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/ 4 November 2008
DRDGold said on Tuesday it had halted drilling and blasting at the ERPM gold mine’s only producing shaft because of pumping problems.
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/ 23 October 2008
South Africa’s fourth-biggest gold producer, DRDGold, on Thursday said production in the first quarter was unchanged at 70 861 ounces.
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/ 21 October 2008
More than 500 workers at Anglo Coal, a division of global miner Anglo American, downed tools on Tuesday to mark the death of a worker.
A miner has died in an accident at DRDGold’s Blyvooruitzicht mine near Carletonville, an official confirmed on Thursday.
The mining plan has drawn flak from environmentalists and social workers who believe it will cause damage to the environment and to the community.
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/ 23 September 2008
Top gold and precious-metals producer South Africa is wrestling with mounting mine deaths, putting the heat on mining firms to end the carnage.
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/ 23 September 2008
London-listed Petra Diamonds swung to an annual profit after it bought South African mines from De Beers, and forecast a fivefold jump in output.
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/ 19 September 2008
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it was saddened by Friday’s news of the deaths of another three mineworkers.
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/ 12 September 2008
Impala Platinum said on Friday it is in talks with Mvelaphanda Resources and Northam Platinum, sending shares of all three mining companies soaring.
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/ 9 September 2008
Guinea, the world’s top bauxite exporter, will speed up a mining-contracts review, the country’s finance minister says.
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/ 8 September 2008
The sale of SA black economic empowerment mining assets to larger entities degrades the aims of the country’s mining charter, said Futhi Zikalala.
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/ 4 September 2008
Water tests have raised questions over accusations made against Anglo Platinum that it was polluting the drinking water of two communities.
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/ 4 September 2008
Diamond miner Trans Hex says that it is in discussions with De Beers over exploring options in regard to De Beers’s Namaqualand Mines Division.
Mining and natural resource group Anglo American was mining at risk because of an insecure power supply, the group said on Tuesday.
A bombshell has burst over the Toscanini diamond mine on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast after two of its American investment broker were arrested last week.
Australian mining giant Equinox Minerals is developing Zambia’s Lumwana Copper Mine to take advantage of strong prices for copper.
Given the demand for mining engineers in the country, if you are one of this year’s Grade 12s, you should consider a career in mining engineering.
Simmer and Jack Mines said on Thursday that an accident at its Buffelsfontein mine in North West has claimed the life of one mine worker.
More than 700 NUM members at the Helem diamond mine in Swartruggens near Rustenburg have downed tools to demand better wages, the union says.
Miner Anglo American posted a 14% rise in first-half underlying profit on Thursday on higher output and prices, and forecast a strong second half.
South African mining contractor Shaft Sinkers has landed its first multibillion-rand contract in the Russian Federation, the company said on Monday.
Kumba Iron Ore remains committed to zero harm, chief executive Chris Griffith told a results presentation in Johannesburg on Thursday.
De Beers said on Thursday it was continuing wage talks with South Africa’s largest mine workers’ union in a bid to avert a strike.