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The Rhino 100 Master Driller is a multi-functional, mobile raise bore driller used in the process of longhole stoping. Photo: Supplied

Mechanisation is still to come into its own in South Africa’s gold industry

Gold Fields’ South Deep hopes to turn the situation around with its super driller and indications are that extraction will shift from 85% to 93%.

Gold prices have surged by more than 30% in 2024, repeatedly hitting record highs as global economic uncertainty drives demand for the precious metal.
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Gold dazzles during the pandemic

Investors have been betting on gold as a safe option during a year of tumult and uncertainty

Potential white elephant: The construction site of Gauteng’s emergency Covid-19 hospital in Carletonville on the West Rand. It has cost about R500-million, but equipment for patients will add to that. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Emergency hospital: Gauteng’s potential R500-million albatross

Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising to come online only after Gauteng’s peak

Golden opportunity? AngloGold Ashanti has recently sold the Mponeng mine (pictured) to Harmony Gold.  (Chris Wessels/Anglogold Ashanti)

Mponeng sale is a lifeline

AngloGold head Kelvin Dushnisky views Harmony’s Gold purchase of Mponeng as a positive step for the future of the mine

Angolan journalist and opposition figure Rafael Marques de Morais

Madiba’s Midas touch goes for $10-million in bitcoin

​A South African businessperson living in Canada has managed to sell his collection of four gold castings of Nelson Mandela’s hands

Landmark silicosis ruling allows class action against gold firms

Analysts said the suits could cost the industry hundreds of millions of dollars in the largest class action in Africa’s most industrialised country.

Miners rescued after a fire at Harmony Gold

The fire is believed to have started while maintenance work was being carried out on an air cooler.

Inside information favours those setting the gold price.

Harmony posts profit despite output drop

An improved gold price and higher-quality ore saw the gold miner benefit in spite of a number of production challenges.

Our weekly roundup includes the Harmony Gold mining tragedy

Weekend 101: Putin, politics and looking pretty

Our weekly roundup includes the Harmony Gold mining tragedy, Sochi’s Olympic-sized woes, the Zille-Ramphele debacle, and a lesson on good looks.

Harmony operations halted for safety, says Shabangu

Operations at Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine will halt until the area is declared safe, says mineral resources minister Susan Shabangu.

Shabangu to visit Harmony mine after workers’ deaths

While the search continues for one miner after the news of the death of eight others, the minister will visit Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine.

Eight miners’ bodies recovered at Harmony after fire

Reports say the bodies of eight miners have been recovered after a fire and rock fall at a gold mine in Jo’burg, while one miner remains missing.

In Nelson Mandela Bay

Eight miners rescued at Harmony gold mine

Rescue workers have reached eight miners trapped in Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine after an earthquake damaged electric cables, triggering a fire.

Business reporter Lisa Steyn explains the high salaries of mine bosses and how it impacts on wage negotiations.

Harmony gold miners trapped underground

Nine miners remain unnaccounted for while eight are trapped in a refuge bay a mile underground after a fire broke out at Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine.

Former mine owners to cough up

Harmony looks to the Constitutional Court to reverse a ruling that cost it millions.

The director of Blue Platinum

Second-hand gold mines’ rising shine

Acquisitions could help the industry survive cost increases and lower commodity prices.

Neither DRDGold nor Village Main Reef will accept liability for Blyvoor’s environmental impact.

Gold mines now dust as jobs vanish

Gold’s decline has resulted in thousands of job losses and closed mines like Blyvoorzicht, which has left behind miners who can only cling to hope.

Gold wage-offer gap seems too wide to close, says NUM

Gold producers and labour groups appear too far apart in pay talks to reach a settlement, according to the majority union.

Gold stocks soar on weaker rand

South African gold-mining stocks surged to a four-year high as the nation’s currency plummeted and pushed the rand-price of gold higher.

Amcu and miners seek interdict to re-enter hostel

The South Gauteng High Court has been scheduled to hear an urgent application to grant miners access to Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine hostel.