Production is soaring in Alberta’s bitumen belt, but the environment is suffering, writes John Vidal.
South Africa should not only be training artisans for current needs, but also replacing its aging workforce, says a human resources company.
Plans to dig West Africa’s first zinc mine in impoverished Burkina Faso have been scrapped due to funding problems linked to depressed zinc prices.
The illegal miners had left their mark. Tools, explosives, and sacks lay beside chopped power cables about 700m below ground in Ghana’s Obuasi mine.
The National Union of Mineworkers has declared wage disputes with three major mining companies, the union said on Thursday.
South Africa’s biggest miners’ union said on Wednesday it would down tools on August 6 in a national strike that could halt production.
Mining in Rustenburg does not just bring wealth. With the influx of people, it has added to the massive strain on the region’s resources.
Despite massive urbanisation, Rustenburg clings to its agricultural roots. Smallholdings and plots abound nearby.
South African gold producer AngloGold Ashanti said on Tuesday it had finalised its 100% acquisition of United States gold miner Golden Cycle.
South Africa has 85% of the world’s supply of a metal that is in ever-increasing demand
Lynley Donnelly explores the effects of Rustenburg’s booming platinum mines on the town
South African gold miner Gold Fields confirmed on Thursday that two employees have been killed at the group’s Kloof mine west of Johannesburg.
South African Coal Mining Holdings Limited on Wednesday announced a R100-million rights offer at R4 a share as part of a plan to improve production.
Global mining giant Anglo American said on Wednesday it was "reviewing all options" surrounding a major project to produce platinum in Zimbabwe.
Mine owners will face stiffer fines and harsher terms of imprisonment for breaches of mine health and safety rules under a new Bill.
Total mining production for the three months ended April 2008, after seasonal adjustment, decreased by 4,1% compared with the previous three months.
Soaring costs eroded the revenues of mining companies in 2007, a report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers on Tuesday indicated.
Results of a safety audit of South African mines were ”worrying” because they showed a low level of safety compliance, a top mining official said on Wednesday.
Rescue workers found 23 miners missing underground after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery and were bringing them to safety on Monday through a narrow ventilation shaft.
Gold Fields, the world’s fourth-largest gold producer, on Friday confirmed that the illegal strike at its Beatrix mine near Welkom in the Free State had been called off.
South African miner Gold Fields said on Friday workers at its Beatrix gold mine had stopped an illegal strike, but production had been affected.
Trade union Solidarity on Friday said 100 of its members were trapped 900m underground at Gold Fields’ Beatrix mine outside of Welkom in the Free State
Mining is and always will be a dangerous business. But every time there is a seismic event, a rockfall, or, as happened this week, a broken lift, a new round of muttering begins.
?Welkom’s racial war was brought home to me on Wednesday through the barrel of a gun.
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/ 22 January 1988
A Mr Betram at JCI head office said shaft stewards ”were taken to a shaft for disciplinary action”.
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/ 18 September 1987
Little Nozipho’s death comes about two month after mine management introduced a stringent ”ID card system” on the mine.
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/ 4 September 1987
The PTTI threatened international disruption of South Africa’s communication links if a settlement was not reached.
According to the NUM the workers were locked out last Friday and given until Monday this week to return to work or face dismissal.
And to watch his neighbours queuing for his job.
More than 7 000 black miners are facing dismissal rather than break South Africa’s largest strike ever, which ends its second week today.