S&P Global Ratings has downgraded Botswana’s long-term sovereign credit rating to BBB- from BBB, citing structural weakness ...

TUNGSTEN prices have surged more than 550% since China tightened exports of the metal – used in the manufacture of weapons – in 2024. The rally has gathered pace in recent weeks as buyers exhaust ...

SOUTH32 said on Monday it had put its 63.7%-owned, 320,000 ton a year Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique on care and ...

AN estimated $34bn in deals has gripped the mining sector since 2024, according to Canadian law firm Dentons. Efforts to ...

PERSEUS Mining has thown the towel in on its Sudan gold exploration holdings agreeing to the sale of Meyas Sand Gold Project ...

GLENCORE CEO Gary Nagle is hoping a recent surge in coal prices will help bring Rio Tinto back to the table for another attempt at creating the world’s biggest mining company, said Reuters on Friday.

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 ...

A UNIT of Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to end illegal mining on one of its copper concessions after a landslide killed and injured an unspecified ...

ONE assumes the electricity regulator in South Africa (Nersa) is conscious that in approving a heavily discounted tariff for ferrochrome smelters, it is waving a green flag for other miners operating ...

THE future of one of the world’s richest diamond mines has finally been secured three years after its botched expansion ...