A deal to import 300MW from South Africa’s power utility Eskom is being finalised as government seeks to augment Zimbabwe’s dwindling power supplies, businessdigest has established.

Commodities jumped on Friday, headed for their largest weekly gain in more than three years as base metals roared higher after Glencore pledged to slash zinc output and gold hit three-week highs after dovish Federal Reserve minutes.

The drying up of equity and debt markets coupled with new lows in cash reserves have pushed Canada's junior mining industry on a further downward financial trend, according to PwC's yearly report on the TSX Venture's top 100 junior mining companies. But the in...

Zimbabwe has asked two ferrochrome producers, including a unit of China's Sinosteel Corp Ltd, who own 80% of all chrome mining claims to release some ground for distribution to new investors, the mines minister said on Wednesday. Zimbabwe holds the world's sec...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Two high-carbon ferrochrome furnaces in Inner Mongolia are on sale now, including all the relative devices.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]One of China's largest ferrochrome producers in Shanxi is currently building its furnace to increase its low- and micro-carbon capacity. The furnace in construction is scheduled to put into production at the end of 2015

With huge overburden of chrome ore creating environmental problems, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has directed that a comprehensive overburden management action be prepared for Sukinda Valley.

THE government has forfeited about 600 mining claims of base metal minerals in the Midlands province in terms of the Mines and Minerals Act (Chapter 21:05).