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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

Gold Fields said it will carry out the new project through the proposed unbundling of its subsidiary unit. (Image source: Natalia V/Flickr)

Gold Fields Limited has announced plans to set up a new South African gold mining company, Sibyanye Gold Limited

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