MINES and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa says revitalising the economy requires more investment in value addition and beneficiation of natural resources so as to increase earnings.

Integrated resources group Tharisa is confident about its outlook and being able to pay its maiden dividend after the financial year-end, with its Tharisa mine, in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex, reaching steady state production and generating cash flow.

There is a very clear need for government and industry to come together to address the problems facing South Africa’s mining industry, particularly its chrome sector, say global energy and resource specialist consultancy Venmyn Deloitte MDs Andy Clay and Chri...

Gulf Mining Group, one of the largest mining and mineral processing corporations in the Sultanate, is weighing plans to set up the Sultanate’s first manganese ferroalloy smelter at Sohar — part of the corporation’s strategy to add value to Oman’s prolific ...

Gulf Mining Group, one of the largest mining and mineral processing corporations in the Sultanate, is weighing plans to set up the Sultanate’s first manganese ferroalloy smelter at Sohar — part of the corporation’s strategy to add value to Oman’s prolific ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Researchers at Kyoto University have found that molybdenum silicides can improve the efficiency of turbine blades in ultrahigh-temperature combustion systems.

[www.ferro-alloys.com] Indian steel giant Tata Steel is set for what are believed to be crunch talks with trade union representatives of its UK steelworks to settle the deadlock over a 15-billion-pound pension scheme for its workers, the main obstacle in its...

[www.ferro-alloys.com] The meteoric rise in coking coal prices over the last couple of months has had a painful effect on China's steel producers, who are having to pay a lot more for coking coal, a key ingredient in steel production. The cost inflation gave r...