2013: deadline for breaking the suffocating grip of silicosis

The success of multimillion-dollar claims against mining companies Gencor and Cape PLC to compensate asbestosis sufferers, had a secondary effect – it highlighted the plight of those suffering other lung diseases that can be related directly...

Anglo in senior-management reshuffle

Global miner Anglo American last week reported a senior-management reshuffle.

Gold major confirms buyer interest in Zimbabwe mine

Gold major AngloGold Ashanti has confirmed that it is in talks with ‘people’ interested in acquiring its Freda-Rebecca underground mine in Zimbabwe, which for many years was the Southern African country’s biggest gold producer.

Platinum giant to unveil new operating model this month . . .

Top platinum group metals (PGM) miner Anglo Platinum will this month unveil the details of a new operating model aimed at improving its mining and process efficiencies and ensuring the viability of the group’s projects, says CE Ralph...

Zim nickel-mine mulls big low-grade prospect

Zimbabwe’s Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC), now majority-owned by former Anglo American Corporation of South Africa executive Kalaa Mpinga’s Mwana Africa, is evaluating a huge but low-grade nickel deposit in the former British...

Canadian miner in gem deal with Anglo

Canadian joint venture Etruscan Diamonds has concluded an option agreement with Anglo Operations, a division of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, for properties in the Lichtenburg and Ventersdorp alluvial diamond districts.

The ultimate luxury product

The story of the birth of mother nature’s most precious stones still remains an extraordinary one.

Anglo's BEE procurement rises 48% to R3,6bn

Global mining giant Anglo American Corporation, its business units and independently managed subsidiaries have recorded R3,6-billion on business development and direct procurement transactions, with black-owned and managed small and medium...

On-The-Air (12/03/2004)

Every Friday morning, SAfm’s AMLive’s radio anchor John Perlman speaks to Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly. Reported here is this Friday’s At the Coalface transcript: Perlman: A new South...

Bobby Godsell, AngloGold

Full name: Bobby Godsell Position: CEO AngloGold since 1998 Main activity of the company: Gold mining and marketing Date and place of birth: September 14, 1952 Education: Grosvernor Boys’ High School, Durban, matric, 1969; BA, Natal...

Zim believes China growth offers big opportunity for Africa

NEWCOMER to the world of mining Anglo American Corporation’s deputy chief executive Lazarus Zim said the recovery of the US economy and Euroland is being accompanied by a “giant sucking sound” from China.

Anglo announces two strategic appointments

Mining giant Anglo American Corporation of South Africa said yesterday that Tebello Chabana assumed the new role of head of regulatory affairs at its premises, with effect from February 1.