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Copper 360 rejigs debt as benefits from producer status

1 week ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

NORTHERN Cape junior copper producer Copper 360 has restructured R276.6m of short-term debt into long-term debt cutting the interest rate it is paying by more than 50%.
Sibanye-Stillwater says Appian mine sale "crystallises" damages

2 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

THE sale of Mineração Vale Verde (MVV) for $420m last week could have a bearing on the extent of damages Sibanye-Stillwater might have to pay to Appian Capital Advisory, said the precious metal miner’s CEO-designate, Richard Stewart. Sibanye-Stillwater and Appian Capital are at loggerheads over the South African firm’s decision to abandon the purchase of Appian’s MVV in 2021. MVV owned Santa Rita, a copper mine in Brazil.
The Jo'burg network behind Zanaga iron ore revival

2 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

ONCE upon a time CEOs of companies as grand as Anglo American migrated to a beachside villa or golfing redoubt when they retired. Not today. Take the list of investors stumping up $21m for shares in AIM-listed Zanaga Iron Ore Co (ZIOC). They include Tony Trahar and Mark Cutifani, who walked the corridors of 44 Main Street for a collective 17 years. Alongside their investment vehicle, Greymont Bay, is Mick Davis, the former CEO of Xstrata, a ZIOC investor in his own right.
Mining stocks flayed as SA counts cost of tariffs, GNU dispute

3 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

MINING stocks were flayed on the JSE as the market absorbed the potential damage to the global economy of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, unveiled on April 2. Shares in petrochemicals company Sasol fell 12.89% on Thursday owing to a hefty declines in oil prices. Brent crude was 5% lower at some $69.59 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down $5.07, or 7.07%, at $66.64, according to Reuters. Platinum group metal (PGM) stocks were struck particularly hard.
Sibanye-Stillwater says tariffs open door to better PGM prices

3 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

THE slew of tariffs unleashed by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday were an opportunity for platinum miners to re-examine how they sold their metal by bargaining for better prices, said Sibanye-Stillwater CEO designate, Richard Stewart. “What tariffs are telling us is the world is becoming more transactional. Platinum group metals (PGMs) are critical metals and there is an opportunity to treat them as such,” said Stewart on the sidelines of the PGM Day, a mining conference.
Orion CEO Errol Smart announces surprise resignation

3 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

ORION Minerals said on Thursday its founding CEO Errol Smart is to resign with almost immediate effect “following the recent achievement of key milestones”. He will leave the company on April 3 (Friday) after 12 years in which he has taken Orion into two copper projects in South Africa’s Northern Cape. Smart will be succeeded as MD and CEO by Tony Lennox, a non-executive director of Orion with a background in development of large-scale mining projects.
Orion Minerals CEO Errol Smart announces resignation

3 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

ORION Minerals said on Thursday its founding CEO Errol Smart is to resign with near immediate effect “following the recent achievement of key milestones”. He will leave the company on April 3 (Friday) after 12 years in which he has taken Orion into two copper projects in South Africa’s Northern Cape. Smart’s departure is a surprise. No specific reason as for his resignation – which comes as sudden – has been given by the company.
Can Ben Magara make the difference at Exxaro?

3 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

WHEN Ben Magara was officially named CEO of Exxaro Resources, people in the room applauded; some even cheered. “They always do that,” an analyst said when asked if the celebrations, taking place at the firm’s annual results announcement in March, were of a company emerging from trauma. It’s been a harrowing time for the coal producer. A series of reports by Business Times last year detailed allegations of bullying by Exxaro’s then CEO, Nombasa Tsengwa.
Sibanye-Stillwater wind farm achieves commercial production

3 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

SIBANYE-Stillwater said on Tuesday its 89MW Castle wind farm in South Africa’s Northern Cape had achieved commercial production. The facility is one of some 407MW worth of renewable projects under construction that are due to supply the miner. Castle will supply 5.5% – or 309MW – of Sibanye-Stillwater’s total energy demand and reduce the firm’s carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 321,000 tons a year.
Trump tariffs will barely dent PGM vehicle demand

3 weeks ago | miningmx.com | David McKay

US tariffs on vehicles were unlikely to disturb platinum group metals (PGMs) demand, said the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). It calculated a 70,000 ounce impact on platinum automotive demand and a 269,000 oz impact on palladium in vehicles. This is assuming a 25% tariff, contemplated by the US President Donald Trump, is implemented on April 3.