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Japanese On March in Platinum

Japan appears determined to lock in reserves of nickel, zinc and specially platinum for its car industry (catalytic converters) in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.02.2007

De Beers

De Beers is presently fitting out a ship in Cape [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.02.2007

BHP Billiton

BHP Billiton is currently negotiating the sale of its Optimum [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.02.2007

Webber Wentzel Bowens

Webber Wentzel Bowens, a South African law firm that specializes [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.02.2007

Industrial Development Corporation

Industrial Development Corporation in South Africa is to invest USD [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.02.2007

Bheki Khumalo

A former spokesman for president Thabo Mbeki, Bheki Khumalo, has taken up a senior post in the South African oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.02.2007

AGC
In Talks with Ophir

Active in the joint zone between Senegal and Guinea Bissau [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.02.2007

South Africa
Anglo American’s black partners in coal mining

The coal division of the mining giant Anglo American has just created the south African company Anglo Inyosi Coal worth [...]

Subscribers only 09.02.2007

Spotlight
Growing Power of "Communities"

Traditional South African communities are increasingly positioning themselves as mining operators by forging partnerships with major groups. The traditional Bakwena ba Mogopa community signed its second empowerment agreement in a month in mid-January, with Switzerland’s Xstrata group.

Subscribers only Mining 06.02.2007

Spotlight
DTC’s New Distribution System

An agreement creating the Namibia Diamond Trading Co (NDTC) that De Beers and the Namibian government signed on Jan. 31 marks a new step towards shaking up the distribution system of DTC, the diamond group’s London-based commercial arm.

Subscribers only Mining 06.02.2007

A Well-Connected Diamond Firm

A new diamond exploration concern, Diamond Corp plc, has just listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market. Its main asset is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.02.2007

Ndaba Ntsele

The boss of the black investment firm Pamodzi Investment Holdings, Ndaba Ntsele, is taking a close look at buying a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.02.2007

Nhlanhla Msomi

The former chief of the South African biology and ecology research center Lifelab, Nhlanhla Msomi, has been appointed chief executive [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.02.2007

Costly Restructuring for Kumba Iron Ore

The cost of restructuring Kumba Resources is now expected to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.02.2007

Cape Town
Indaba - Mining Investment 2007

The U.S. firm International Investment Conferences is staging the annual [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.02.2007

Monroe Minerals

The Canadian company for working diamond mines which failed in [...]

Subscribers only Business 02.02.2007

Pretoria Offers Deep Block

South Africa’s Petroleum Agency has issued a call for bids for four under-explored zones in the offshore, including one in the deep offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 30.01.2007

Production Ramp-Up for Eskom

The chief executive of South Africa’s state-owed utility Eskom, Thulani [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.01.2007

Spotlight
All-Platinum Swiss Equity Fund

Founded in 2004 by the Swiss fund manager Bernard Loriol, the firm Best Asset Class (BAC) launched "The Bushveld Fund" in 2005 as the only equity fund in the world to invest entirely in platinum.

Subscribers only Mining 23.01.2007

Sumitomo Buys Into Assore

The Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corp has acquired a 10.5% holding in the South African concern Assore, which has long supplied [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.01.2007

Five New Projects for Anglo Coal

The board of Anglo Coal recently gave a go-ahead to five coal projects designed to supply new power plants operated [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.01.2007

Terence Goodlace

Terence Goodlace has succeeded Brendan Walker, who died in December, as director of South African operations of Gold Fields. Up [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.01.2007

Cape Town
Indaba - Mining Investment 2007

The U.S. firm International Investment Conferences is staging the annual [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.01.2007

Going East from the South

Sanofi Aventis is to transfer part of its Dakar office to Johannesburg to create a platform from where it can expand into the Eastern and Central regions of Africa.

Free access Business 19.01.2007

Paulo Couto Barbosa

One of the most important Portuguese diplomatic posts on the [...]

Subscribers only 19.01.2007

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