IRAN’S military warned oil could reach $200 a barrel as fighting between the country and US-Israeli forces intensified, said ...

SOUTH Africa is rolling out a new credit-guarantee programme designed to mobilise billions of dollars in private investment for infrastructure, spanning power grid expansion, water systems, ports and ...

RAINBOW Rare Earths has approved a $279m rare earths project in Brazil, partnering with US fertiliser giant Mosaic to extract critical minerals from phosphogypsum waste at a site in Minas Gerais state ...

A LARGE proportion of banks and investors are not screening for illegal mining risks despite operating in sectors vulnerable to illicit extraction, according to Reuters which cited a report by the ...

SAMANCOR Chrome is pushing forward with plans to retrench about 2,400 workers across its smelting operations and corporate offices, said Bloomberg News citing a statement from the National Union of ...

ZAMBIA is seeking global investment, including from the United States, to more than triple copper output to three million tons by 2031, the country’s mines minister was quoted as saying in an article ...

ONE assumes the electricity regulator in South Africa (Nersa) is conscious that in approving a heavily discounted tariff for ...

AT least three iron ore cargoes operated by Anglo American have been diverted mid-voyage as the US and Israeli military ...

AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM), the Patrice Motsepe company, confirmed it was participating in a bid to build and operate a ...

IRON ore is heading for its biggest weekly gain in more than a year after China’s state-backed buyer moved to expand restrictions on BHP products, said Bloomberg News in an article on Friday (13 March ...

THE future of one of the world’s richest diamond mines has finally been secured three years after its botched expansion threatened to bankrupt owner Lucara Diamond Corp. The Toronto-listed miner said ...

GHANA will implement a new sliding-scale gold royalty regime on Tuesday despite opposition from the US, China and other Western governments, as well as senior mining executives, said Reuters citing ...