5+ hour, 37+ min ago  (264+ words) GHANA will implement a new sliding-scale gold royalty regime on Tuesday despite opposition from the US, China and other Western governments, as well as senior mining executives, said Reuters citing the country's mining regulator. The system replaces a flat 5% royalty…...

4+ day, 37+ min ago  (334+ words) GLENCORE has proposed an $800m pre-payment arrangement to help finance a little-known Kazakh entrepreneur's $1.4bn bid for a 40% stake in Eurasian Resources Group, the Luxembourg-based miner formerly listed in London as ENRC. According to the Financial Times on Thursday, the Swiss commodities…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (270+ words) AUSTRALIA and Canada have signed a series of agreements on critical minerals as part of "efforts among the West to reduce their dependence on Chinese supply chains. The agreement includes Australia's entry into the G7 minerals security alliance, said Reuters on…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (538+ words) IMPALA Platinum (Implats) said the improved market for platinum group metals will support extension projects and prompt the company to explore cross-boundary cooperation with rival miners, especially on the Eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex. CEO Nico Muller said elevated…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (284+ words) BHP has told workers at its Queensland coal operations that the mines can no longer attract investment and are generating no returns for the company, according to an email to workers seen by Bloomberg News. The Australian state is home…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (204+ words) CANADA will deploy around C$3.5bn ($2.6bn) in investments and programmes to accelerate the development of critical minerals deposits, as the country seeks to position itself as a reliable alternative to China for materials vital to advanced manufacturing and the digital economy,…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (668+ words) FULL marks for Duncan Wanblad's powers of restraint. In an interview with Miningmx he could not be tempted into sounding a triumphant note notwithstanding the advent of Anglo Teck, the merger of his Anglo American with Canada's Teck Resources. The…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (468+ words) EXACTLY two years ago, Northam Platinum CEO Paul Dunne, who is also president of the Minerals Council South Africa, warned that a severe squeeze on the platinum group metals (PGM) sector was resulting in the "worst crisis" he'd seen in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (287+ words) SOUTH Africa's Valterra Platinum is owed $100m in unpaid export proceeds by Zimbabwe's government even as Harare has begun making partial payments to clear the arrears, said Reuters on Wednesday. Zimbabwe requires exporters to convert 30% of their foreign currency proceeds into…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (1409+ words) LATE on Friday about two weeks ago, a bloodless statement popped onto trader's screens, speaking blandly of a reshuffle in "executive responsibilities" at Copper 360, the only JSE-listed pure play mining group focused on the hottest metal in town. CEO Graham…...