Africa

After weeks of relentless selling the spot price of iron ore regained its footing on Tuesday on the same day the decline in the value of the steelmaking material claimed one of its most high-profile victim.   The 62%...

South Africa’s Harmony Gold (JSE:HAR) (NYSE:HMY) announced Tuesday that an employee was fatally injured in an engineering related accident while performing maintenance work at Unisel mine near Welkom on Saturday, April 4.   The company said production at the...

Buffelsfontein gold mine (BGM) is located in South Africa, about 160km south-west of Johannesburg. Owned by Simmer & Jack Mines, the mine was formed through the consolidation of two former mines; Hartebeestfontein Mine, which currently represents the north division...

The Boseto copper mine is situated in Ngamiland in the Kalahari copper belt of north-west Botswana. The mine is 100% owned by Australia-based Discovery Metals and is being developed using open cut methods. Results of a pre-feasibility study of...

Blyvoor is a gold-bearing mine 70km south-west of Johannesburg in the north-western extreme of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa. Established in 1937, Blyvoor was the first mine in the West Wits line. It has been operating since 1942. Since...

Aquarius Platinum's Blue Ridge project is situated on the Blaauwbank farm, about 30km south-east of Groblersdal, on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), South Africa. The project was originally owned by Ridge Mining, which Aquarius acquired...

Bisha Project is located at about 150km west of Asmara in Eritrea, East Africa. The mining project is a major deposit of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) mineralisation. The VMS mineralisation is rich in base and precious metals such as...