Depressed platinum is being nudged into a sweeter spot by a combination of the Covid-19 pandemic, new focus on diesel vehicles, trickling substitution of platinum for palladium and worsening supply constraints, Mining Weekly can report. Covid-19 fundin…
Covid, diesel, substitution nudging platinum into sweeter spot Read More »
The Standard Bank is well positioned to weather the Covid-19 storm and remains determined to emerge from this crisis as a stronger Africa-focused financial services group, Standard Bank Group FD Dr Arno Daehnke said on Thursday. The capital and liquidi…
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The body of an employee has been found underground at Harmony Gold’s Moab Khotsong mine, near Orkney, in North West province, Harmony stated on Wednesday. The employee was reported missing at the end of the day shift on Tuesday and an intensive search …
Fatality at Moab Khotsong gold mine – Harmony Read More »
Platinum group metals mining and marketing company Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) on Wednesday announced it had temporarily reclosed the processing plant that reopened last month, to ensure an ongoing safe operating environment, safeguard employees …
Amplats temporarily recloses recently re-opened ACP plant Read More »
While South Africa is still trundling along laboriously with a minerals cadastre system fraught with shortcomings, Mozambique has rocketed to the highest firmament of e-government licence processing, Mining Weekly can report. Mozambique first led the p…
Mozambique streaks ahead with new e-government cadastre advance Read More »
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The discovery of alluvial diamonds in the unique secondary deposits of the Middle Orange River downstream of Hopetown in South Africa in 1867 was the catalyst that initiated the development of the mining industry in So…
Urgent plea to government to allow struggling alluvial diamond sector to create jobs Read More »
The discovery of alluvial diamonds in the unique secondary deposits of the Middle Orange River downstream of Hopetown in South Africa in 1867 was the catalyst that initiated the development of the mining industry in Southern Africa. But compared with i…
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The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) said on Tuesday that it remained fully committed to exploring all its options to protect the future of Kalagadi Manganese, which has opposed business rescue proceedings.
IDC said it was important to note th…
IDC committed to exploring all options to rescue Kalagadi Manganese Read More »
The tragic tailings dam breach in Brazil that killed more than 270 people has focused the world of mining on making tailings dams safe. Earlier this year, and environmental organisation Grid-Arendal launched the world’s first publicly accessible global…
New solution for monitoring tailings dams Read More »
A natural diamond is made from carbon and is the hardest natural known substance on earth. Natural diamonds are created over a period of one to three billion years, many kilometres below the earth’s mantle under natural conditions of very high pressure…
New natural diamond council launched Read More »
