MINES and Mining Development Minister, Walter Chidhakwa, who has been under fire for failing to put in place measures to resume chrome ore exports, this week set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for small scale miners to use for export of the mineral.
The Obama administration is actively considering the re-imposition of tariffs on a range of South African exports worth billions of rand including cars, ferromanganese, citrus and wine, unless SA moves rapidly to open its market to US chicken, beef and pork.
Current pressures on the mining sector are driving increased interest in the cost savings and power security advantages that renewables could provide mining operations. To this end, a record number of mining leaders will meet with renewable energy and finance ...
Global commodities mining and marketing company Glencore on Monday announced a fully committed proposed equity capital raising of up to $2.5-billion alongside additional $10.2-billion capital preservation and debt reduction measures, portfolio optimisation a...
PT Antam Tbk, Indonesia announced at the end of last week that the expansion project for Pomalaa plant was completed at the end of July, and No.5 oxygen plant as part of this project started operation.
It is expected that base-metals miner First Quantum Mineral’s Enterprise nickel mine will start operation later this year or in 2016, depending on nickel market conditions.