Mining production had slipped 14.5 per cent in 2012 as compared to 2011 due to water scarcity. (Image source: free/Flickr)
Experts have said that water constraints in South Africa were hampering mining activities in the country
Randgold Resources chief executive Mark Bristow. (Image source: Mines&Money/Flickr)
Randgold Resources chief executive Mark Bristow has said that African countries would risk driving away new investors if they pushed through mining code revisions aimed at boosting short-term revenues
Discovery Metals is an Australian copper miner with major assets in North-West Botswana. (Image source: Arpit Gupta/Flickr)
Chinese private equity firm Cathay Fortune Corp and China-Africa Development Fund (CADF) have launched a takeover bid worth US$860mn to acquire all outstanding shares of Botswana-focussed Australian copper miner Discovery Metals
ArcelorMittal will sell the Kalagadi Manganese stake to Daphne Mashile-Nkosi, chairperson of Kalahari Resource. (Image source: Kalagadi Manganese)
ArcelorMittal will sell its 50 per cent stake in South African manganese explorer Kalagadi Manganese for US$447mn in an attempt to sell non-core assets to pay down debt
DMC currently has a capacity to produce 7,200 carats a day, worth about US$300,000. (Image source: Kim-bodia/Flickr)
The Zimbabwe government has revealed plans to pump US$50mn into the Marange fields of Diamond Mining Corporation (DMC)
