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3 weeks ago | 
miningweekly.com | Sabrina Jardim |Sheila Barradas |Tasneem Bulbulia |Halima Frost
JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals says it is firmly on track to become a near-term base metals producer with the release of the definitive feasibility studies (DFSs) for its flagship project, the Prieska copper/zinc mine (PCZM), and the Flat Mines project, which is part of the Okiep copper project (OCP), in the Northern Cape.
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3 weeks ago | 
miningweekly.com | Sheila Barradas |Halima Frost |Tasneem Bulbulia |Mariaan Webb
A seabed mining company has asked the Trump administration for approval to harvest the ocean floor for critical metals in international waters controlled by a United Nations-affiliated organizationThe Metals Company, or TMC, has “officially requested a pre-application consultation” with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and executives have also met with White House officials, the firm said Thursday in a statement.
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.en.creamermedia.com | Halima Frost |Sheila Barradas |Sabrina Jardim |Terence Creamer
Celebrating a fiftieth anniversary in any sector is “no mean feat”, but to grow exponentially globally and maintain an upward sales trajectory is exceptional, says heavy-duty slurry pump manufacturer Schurco Slurry. “Schurco Slurry will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in June, marking five decades characterised by innovation, expansion and market leadership in the slurry pumps industry,” enthuses Schurco Slurry pump applications and projects manager Marc Young.
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1 month ago | 
miningweekly.com | Martin Creamer |Sheila Barradas |Marleny Arnoldi |Halima Frost
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – During this financial year, South Africa’s largest gold mining company will be investing more than R3-billion in its South African assets. “We're on an exciting growth path,” Harmony Gold CEO Beyers Nel enthused during the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company’s half-year results presentation covered by Mining Weekly.
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1 month ago | 
miningweekly.com | Sheila Barradas |Martin Creamer |Darren Parker |Halima Frost
Investors in Canadian stocks have a new sector in mind that they hope will help insulate their portfolios from the risk of a trade war: copper miners. At the start of the year traders were piling into shares of Canadian gold miners as tariff-sparked trade friction boosted demand for the precious metal, a classic haven asset.
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1 month ago | 
miningweekly.com | Mariaan Webb |Sheila Barradas |Martin Creamer |Halima Frost
BHP Australia president Geraldine Slattery has warned that Australia’s competitive edge in the resources sector is at risk without sustained investment in productivity, energy, and labour policies. Speaking at the Australian Financial Review (AFR) Business Summit on Tuesday, Slattery highlighted the shifting dynamics of global trade, heightened geopolitical tensions, and changing commodity demand as key challenges facing the nation’s resources sector.
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1 month ago | 
miningweekly.com | Tasneem Bulbulia |Sheila Barradas |Martin Creamer |Halima Frost
London-listed Botswana Diamonds has been granted a mining permit for its Thorny River project, in Limpopo, South Africa. The Thorny River project is close to the mined-out Marsfontein mine. Botswana Diamonds has undertaken extensive geophysics, drilling and bulk sampling along the Thorny River dyke system. The geology and grades were consistent with those in the nearby Klipspringer mine to the West, the company points out.
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1 month ago | 
miningweekly.com | Tasneem Bulbulia |Sheila Barradas |Martin Creamer |Halima Frost
Aim-listed Rome Resources says assay results from drill hole MADD018 at its Mont Agoma prospect in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a 62.25 m cumulative higher-grade zone at 0.61% copper within a broader 148 m intercept averaging 0.35% copper. Recent drilling has identified visible tin across a 40 m interval in hole MADD024 and an associated visible copper zone totalling 179 m.
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1 month ago | 
miningweekly.com | Marleny Arnoldi |Sheila Barradas |Martin Creamer |Halima Frost
South Africa- and UK-listed battery metals company Marula Mining has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Muchai Mining Kenya (MMK) has signed an agency framework contract for the purchase and sale of manganese product from the Kilifi manganese processing plant, in Kenya. The contract involves supply to Baosteel Resources South Africa, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of State-owned China Baowu Steel Group.
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1 month ago | 
miningweekly.com | Sheila Barradas |Martin Creamer |Marleny Arnoldi |Halima Frost
South Africa’s GDP increased by 0.6% in the fourth quarter of 2024, following a decrease of 0.1% in the third quarter of the year. The agriculture, forestry and fishing industry increased by 17.2%, contributing 0.4 of a percentage point to the positive GDP growth. This was primarily due to increased economic activities reported for field crops and animal products. The finance, real estate and business services industry increased by 1.1%, contributing 0.3 of a percentage point.
