HOW gold miners spend money from bonanza cash flows will be a key test as the sector nears the end of a remarkable year.

AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals is to halt investment in new coal projects, citing increasingly stringent environmental regulations.

EUROPEAN Union regulators warned MMG’s proposed acquisition of Anglo American’s Brazilian nickel operations could divert ...

AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) announced its investment vehicle Assmang was putting the Beeshoek iron ore mine on care and maintenance resulting in the retrenchment of 622 permanent employees from end ...

GOLD Fields said on Wednesday it hoped to renew the mining lease of Tarkwa after the group increased the Ghana mine’s gold reserves by 70%. CEO Mike Fraser described the operation in the group’s third ...

THE world’s gold industry was still ripe for consolidation although the historic price highs in the metal would present some ...

KORE Potash, the mineral fertiliser developer, has received two offers to buy the company, it said in an announcement on ...

ACTIVIST fund Palliser Capital has urged Rio Tinto to mount a counterbid for Teck Resources which recently set out terms for ...

EXXARO Resources announced on Monday the sale of its ferrosilicon assets for R250m which it said was in line with its ...

THE European Commission is to launch an investigation into the $500m sale of Anglo American’s nickel business to Chinese ...

DISAGREEMENTS between governments and investors over natural resources have surged to a 10-year peak, with 32 disputes already lodged this year, said Reuters citing data from law firm DLA Piper. The ...

A COALITION of investors managing $18 trillion in assets has called for the establishment of an independent International Minerals Agency modelled on the International Energy Agency, said Reuters on ...