Six years after being carved out of a handful of unwanted gold operations, Sibanye Gold has become the world’s biggest platinum miner. Building on operations spun out of Gold Fields, Sibanye became the No. 1 miner in South Africa’s waning gold industry. Now, with the...

The Wits Mining Institute (WMI) at Wits University will hold a three-day ‘Empowering Leaders for 21st Century Mining’ seminar from 6 to 8 August 2019. Covering important topics relevant for women and leadership in mining, the programme has been carefully designed to...

South Africa’s struggling gold industry has suffered yet another humiliation, losing its status as continent leader to Ghana. The country that led global gold production for a century and extracted about half the bullion ever mined is now Africa’s second-largest gold...

Sibanye-Stillwater said on Wednesday about 3,450 jobs would be lost in the proposed restructuring of the South African company’s gold mining operations, following financial losses at some of its mines since 2017. The number of job losses is lower than a February...

The world’s 40 largest mining companies continued to consolidate their stellar performance of the past several years by delivering steady growth in 2018 according to PwC’s Mine 2019report released yesterday. Revenue up 8% to $683 billion EBITDA up 4% to $165 billion...

The proliferation of borrow pits to simplify the supply of sand and aggregates for road construction crews has once again come under the spotlight following the deaths of two workers at a borrow pit in Limpopo recently. The two had apparently been digging sand for a...

Tanzania’s mining minister said on Monday Acacia Mining had been fined 5.6 billion Tanzanian shillings ($2.4 million) for alleged pollution at its North Mara mine. Acacia, majority-owned by Barrick Gold, is embroiled in a long-running tax dispute with Tanzania. It was...

Following the announcement in October 2018 of WorleyParsons’ binding offer for Jacobs’ Energy, Chemicals and Resources (ECR) line of business, the combined new entity has come together under a new brand – Worley – as of 29 April 2019. While financially an acquisition,...

South Africa’s Competition Appeal Court on Friday gave the green light to Sibanye-Stillwater’s takeover of Lonmin in a deal that aims to create the world’s second-largest platinum producer. Lonmin’s biggest mining union, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction...

Sibanye-Stillwater has advised that the underground operations at its Thembelani shaft have resumed today after the shaft was certified safe for normal hoisting operations. On Tuesday the mine had hoisted most of the miners from one of its Rustenburg mine shafts...

South Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd said on Thursday its quarterly bullion production increased by 10 percent with a recovery in production at its South Deep mine after a six-week strike. Gold production for the quarter ended March. 31 rose to 542,000 from 490,000 ounces a...