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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
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 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