This week Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer unpacks how power cuts are affecting Amplats, reducing mine development risk and jewellery’s influence on platinum.
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Tony Giardini has returned to Ivanhoe Mines and has been named president of the Canadian company, which is focusing on base metals and platinum-group metals projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa.
Giardini, who was most recently…
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Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe on Wednesday officially handed over a 50% shareholding held by mining company Exxaro in the Arnot coal mine, in Middleburg, Mpumalanga, to former Arnot Coal employees. In a statement, the Department of Mineral …
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TSX- and ASX-listed Alacer Gold, which operates the Çöpler gold mine, in Turkey, produced 89 354 oz of gold in the quarter ended March 31, keeping it on track to meet its full-year guidance of producing 320 000 oz to 380 000 oz of gold. The company on …
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London-listed Hochschild achived a strong start to this year, with attributable production of 121 367 gold-equivalent ounces or 9.8-million silver-equivalent ounces for the quarter ended March 31. This was mostly as a result of "another solid quart…
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Saudi Arabian mining company Ma’aden has awarded a consortium comprising Outotec and Larsen & Toubro an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a greenfield mineral concentrator and gold processing plant in Saudi Arabia. Outotec…
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London-listed precious metals miner Polymetal’s Amursk pressure oxidation (POX) plant, has become the second gold production operation in Russia to be certified as being in full compliance with the International Cyanide Management Code (Cyanide Code) a…
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Aim-listed Chaarat Gold has appointed Darin Cooper COO, effective June 1. Cooper has more than 30 years’ experience in the metals and mining industry spanning operations, projects, restructuring and culture change.
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A fall-of-ground incident at Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine, near Johannesburg, has claimed the life of an employee, the gold miner said on Tuesday, An investigation into the incident was under way.
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Aim-listed Goldplat has appointed Werner Klingenberg interim CEO with immediate effect. He succeeds Gerard Kisbey-Green, who has stepped down as CEO but will continue to provide services to the company as required to ensure a smooth managerial transition.
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