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Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo

Cabinet approves strategy identifying platinum, manganese, iron ore, coal and chrome as critical minerals

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said the strategy would help ensure policy and regulatory certainty in the mining sector

Trucks line up at the Machipanda border, a major economic link between Zimbabwean capital Harare and Mozambican port city Beira. Photo supplied

On the trail of lithium smugglers in Southern Africa

International intelligence data shows a recent boom in lithium exports from Southern Africa to Chinese markets. Where’s it coming from, and how does it get there?

Tanzanian President John Magufuli focused his ire on one particular company, Acacia Gold, which he accused of dodging tax and exporting more gold than they declared. (AFP)

Tanzania’s mining dispute ends – but at what cost?

Government’s settlement with Acacia Gold may be a short-term victory that scares off new investors

The Mining Indaba 2019 create many opportunities for exclusive discussions with the industry’s key stakeholders, on resource nationalism, sustainability, skills shortages and digitalisation. (Photo: Oupa Nkosi)

The Mining Indaba 2019: A look ahead

The indaba has become a powerful platform for funding, networking, discussions, making deals and more

Verner Ayukegba, senior vice president for international policy at African Energy Chamber

Digging deep: Change for the future

There is a cautious optimism in the mining industry at present

Mxolisi Mgojo of Minerals Council of SA, Deshnee Naido of African Base Metals and Vedanta Zinc International, Ian Cockerill of BlackRock World Mining Trust, Sipho Nkosi of Talent 10. (Photos: Wynand van der Merwe)

Getting underground and creating value

Modernisation is the key for South African mining

Dr Musa Manzi

A seismic innovation

TW Kambule-NSTF Award: Emerging Researcher through research and its outputs by an individual

Prishani Satyapal

Moving from a social licence to a social investment to operate

This will require embracing new ways of understanding value

Mineral Reseources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane’s links to the Guptas has irrevocably destroyed his credibility.

Tainted people can’t lead ANC’s transformation charge

Zwane’s new charter is easy to dismiss due to his Gupta links

There are huge tensions between the government and the mining industry

Can workplace secondments build trust in the mining sector?

The moment demands boldness, and the benefits far outweigh the risk of doing nothing to shift the undesirable status quo

Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi this week confirmed that the Hawks were investigating the bribery claims against Zuma

Does Oppenheimer say it all?

Sycophants are everywhere to be found but it’s the words of the man himself and the empire he ruled that reveal his true nature

Two boys

Mercury rising: Gold mining’s toxic side effect

Across Africa, from Mali to Tanzania to Zimbabwe, millions of people, including children, work in dangerous gold mines.

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Nation’s loss is literature’s gain

The ingredients of great South African novels are based on greed, injustice, land and natural resources.

A mining vision can be good but

Much ado about responsible mining in Africa yields few results

The African Union endorses the vision for responsible mining – but does big capital?

PP Busisiwe Mkhwebane found that the allegation that Gordhan violated the Executive Code of Ethics by deliberately misleading Parliament through failing to disclose that he met a member of the Gupta family was “substantiated”.(Madelene Cronje)

Dreams turn to dust for Mozambicans moved for Vale pit

The community claim their dream of a new urban life has turned into an ordeal, with leaking water pipes and street lights that never come on.

Dreams: TS Galaxy’s coach Dan Malesela has shared his memories with his squad and impressed upon them how much this trophy will mean. (Charlé Lombard/Gallo Images)

Illegal Limpopo chrome mining — digging deep for empty promises

Informal miners were the hardest hit when dodgy ‘investors’ were finally chased out of Sekhukhune, Limpopo.

The Nchanga copper mine in Chingola

How much do governments rake in? Mining giants come clean on taxes

But now governments must also be more transparent about how income from mining companies is spent.

‘itwelf koma five’: Strike action in Marikana by mineworkers over pay increases. Some earned as little as R4?500

Mining is in decline and SA must find renewable options

Mining is not what it once was. It’s time to look elsewhere for income that does not exploit.

The gold-mining industry caved and reached a settlement in a 12-year case brought by claimants over hazardous work conditions that cause silicosis and silico-tuberculosis.

Mining companies’ black shareholder case in court

A dispute between South Africa’s Chamber of Mines and the Department of Mineral Resources started arguments in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe demands $28m from Zimplats

Zimplats has been ordered to pay the Zimbabwean government $28-million in outstanding royalties as it did not revise its contributions since 2009.