Government, organised mining and organised labour have agreed to work collaboratively to obtain a court ruling on the crucial issue of black economic-empowerment (BEE) ownership of mines, the only sticking point of Tuesday’s Mining Charter deadline.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Exploration work on the southern section of platinum processor and developer Sylvania Platinum’s Grasvally chrome project, in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex, has delivered a mineral resource of 64 900 t of high-grade chromite.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The state government has taken over the Chingudipal chromite mines of Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys (IMFA) after declaring the lease as lapsed since 2006. It has taken the action on the ground that the lease renewal application of the compan...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The JSE-listed Bauba Platinum, which is mining and selling chrome ore to fund its platinum exploration, this week shipped the first run-of-mine output from its maiden chrome horizon blast at the Moeijelik operation.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Eskom confirms that the price increase to be implemented on 1 April 2015 to Eskom direct customers is still 12.69% and for municipalities will be 14.25% from 1 July 2015 as approved by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) dur...

Merafe Resources Second Quarter 2015 Ferrochrome Price Announcement

Ferrochrome Plants in Wulanchabu Shut Down due to Environment Factors

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The new mining law is seen as a positive development for Tata Steel, evident from the marginal rise on Monday in the stock price on the BSE.