Integrated resources group Tharisa is confident about its outlook and being able to pay its maiden dividend after the financial year-end, with its Tharisa mine, in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex, reaching steady state production and generating cash flow.

There is a very clear need for government and industry to come together to address the problems facing South Africa’s mining industry, particularly its chrome sector, say global energy and resource specialist consultancy Venmyn Deloitte MDs Andy Clay and Chri...

MINES and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa says revitalising the economy requires more investment in value addition and beneficiation of natural resources so as to increase earnings.

Gulf Mining Group, one of the largest mining and mineral processing corporations in the Sultanate, is weighing plans to set up the Sultanate’s first manganese ferroalloy smelter at Sohar — part of the corporation’s strategy to add value to Oman’s prolific ...

Apple Bridge, a Special Purpose Vehicle created by Government last year to facilitate chrome ore trade is sitting on firm orders of between 12 000 and 15 000 tonnes of chrome every month but lack of capacity from producers is hampering its efforts to meet dema...

ZIMBABWE’S mining sector is under siege as key minerals — diamonds, chrome and coal—are performing below par despite government’s previous efforts to institute reforms to ramp up production.

Chrome veteran Robert Yildirim bought Bear Metallurgical to expand into new ferro-alloys markets, the Turkish billionaire told Metal Bulletin as he hinted at future acquisitions.

SMELTING operations at Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Pvt) Ltd (Zimasco) West Plant, which is being leased to Portnex International, were shut down on Thursday last week after Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority switched off the company for disregardi...