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The Mining Indaba 2019 create many opportunities for exclusive discussions with the industry’s key stakeholders, on resource nationalism, sustainability, skills shortages and digitalisation. (Photo: Oupa Nkosi)
AFRICAN MINING

The Mining Indaba 2019: A look ahead

The indaba has become a powerful platform for funding, networking, discussions, making deals and more

  • Tamsin Oxford
9 min read
Verner Ayukegba, senior vice president for international policy at African Energy Chamber
AFRICAN MINING

Digging deep: Change for the future

There is a cautious optimism in the mining industry at present

  • Tamsin Oxford
6 min read
Mxolisi Mgojo of Minerals Council of SA, Deshnee Naido of African Base Metals and Vedanta Zinc International, Ian Cockerill of BlackRock World Mining Trust, Sipho Nkosi of Talent 10. (Photos: Wynand van der Merwe)
AFRICAN MINING

Getting underground and creating value

Modernisation is the key for South African mining

  • Alison Spratley
12 min read
Bermuda is one of the 10 countries responsible for more than half of the world’s corporate tax avoidance risks
BEE MINING

Questions and contradictions over Lonmin’s Bermuda transfers

Platinum miner claims its audited reports to SARS contained “clear errors”

  • Craig Mckune
4 min read
Patrice Motsepe owns more than 40% of African Rainbow Minerals. He is one of the most visible beneficiaries of Black Economic Empowerment in the country
AFRICAN RAINBOW MINERALS

Waiting for the Rainbow: Villagers lament Motsepe’s empty promises

Poverty-stricken villagers wait in vain for development promised to them by African Rainbow Minerals, which pledged to provide houses and roads.

  • Franz Wild
  • Liezel Hill
14 min read
Shabangu confident SA will exceed mining transformation target
BEE MINING

Shabangu confident SA will exceed mining transformation target

Mining Minister Susan Shabangu is confident a government-set ownership target for blacks in the mining sector will be exceeded.

  • Ed Stoddard
2 min read
ARCELORMITTAL SOUTH AFRICA

ArcelorMittal sees pricing dispute hearing in 2012

ArcelorMittal said on Friday it expects arbitration proceedings relating to its stake in Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen mine to be heard early next year.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
US publications weigh in on SA media freedom
ARCELOR MITTAL

Vuka, South Africa, wake up!

Remember this moment of media tribunals and the misappropriation of mines — it is the hinge around which our future will pivot.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
BEE MINING

BEE company signs multimillion-rand mining deal

Ntsimbintle Mining, a black economic empowered company, signed a R430-million deal with OM Holdings on Monday for a new mine in the Northern Cape.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read