Company Announcement: Partnership ethos marketed to best-of-breed

The first Bigen Africa Partnership Conference was held in March at the CSIR conference facility in Pretoria – attended by hand-picked stakeholders and potential partners from across the globe

Transport agreement secured at Tshipi Borwa

ASX-listed Jupiter Mines on Thursday announced that its Tshipi Borwa manganese mine, in South Africa, had secured a transport agreement with rail operator Transnet. The contract made available two trains per week, along with a 50 000 storage...

BHP warned of strike at Appin

Diversified giant BHP Billiton has been warned that mining supervisors at its Appin mine, in New South Wales, would go on a 14-day protected industrial action after the miner failed to reach an enterprise agreement. The industrial action was...

Turquoise Hill rejects Mongolian review of mining contract

Canada’s Turquoise Hill Resources and controlling partner Rio Tinto on Monday rejected a request from the Mongolian government to renegotiate the investment agreement for Oyu Tolgoi mine, which had been billed as the world’s largest...

Resources Watch

Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry. This week: Fuzzy social obligations render South Africa less competitive than Australia. Analysts...

Fuzzy social obligations rendering SA less competitive than Australia

High Australia-level mining taxes are preferable to the fuzzy indeterminable social obligations imposed on South African mining companies. That is the view of JSE- and NYSE-listed DRDGold CEO Niël Pretorius, who was speaking during question time...

Resources boom is over, says Ferguson as BHP shelves Olympic Dam

Australian Resources Minister Martin Ferguson caused a stir on Thursday when he said that the mining boom had run its course. ““You've got to understand, the resources boom is over,” Ferguson told ABC radio. “We've done well,...

Kanmantoo delivers increased output in July Q

Copper miner Hillgrove Resources on Thursday reported a 30% increase in production from its Kanmantoo operation, in South Australia, during the quarter ended July. Copper production reached 3 473 t during the three months to July, compared with...

Royal hits 2bn tons at Razorback

ASX-listed explorer Royal Resources on Wednesday reported that its Razorback iron project, in South Australia, now had a resource of more than two-billion tons. This followed after the company added some 655-million tons of resource to the...

Company Announcement: Independent Investment Research initiates coverage on Excelsior Gold Limited (EXG) - Valuation at $0.22 per share

Growth in Resource Base Supports Producer Ambitions

Company Announcement: ATMOS Global Launches its new ‘RiskBalance+ Evidence-Based Dust Management Plans’

ATMOS Global launches globally its new RiskBalance+ philosophy, a fully developed approach to formulating Evidence-Based Dust Management Plans as part of its first-of-its-kind new global initiative VerifiedDust: Evidence-based Dust Management and...

Doray buys rest of Andy Well from Murchison

ASX-listed junior Doray Minerals has moved to take full ownership of the Andy Well gold project, in Western Australia, by signing a binding term sheet to purchase the remaining 20% of the project. Doray would issue Murchison Resources a mix of...