Gemfields shares fall after Zambian tax authorities raid its offices

The company is shifting its source of gold from underground mining to cheaper and safer tailings retreatment operations

Director-general at the department of mineral resources Thabo Mokoena talks to Business Day TV

Coal sales benefited from higher demand from Eskom’s Medupi power station, while a stronger rand diluted the gains from higher export prices for coal

Investor flight knocks metal to lowest level in a decade at $760, piling on the pressure for struggling producers

Bank of America Merrill Lynch questions the latest attempt at South Deep revival, which has already cost investors R32bn

Siyakhula Sonke Corporation, with the aid of a R190m loan from the IDC, has bought a 74% stake in the distressed Vantage Goldfields

This is yet another attempt to restore its South Deep mine, which has cost R32bn so far

South32 is another major mining company stepping back from the South African coal sector

‘Latin America faces the same challenges as far as legislation and political risk are concerned’

The world’s second-largest platinum miner is the last of the major producers to announce a fundamental shakeup of its workforce and operations

Debt came down better than expected, and the miner — which returned more than $3bn to investors — plans to fund future returns to shareholders from cash

A Deloitte analyst warns that SA has one card to play — policy perception — to attract investment

Despite corruption probes and fallout from US sanctions in Russia, the miner expects to report adjusted earnings of about $8.5bn in the first half

Merafe Resources CEO Zanele Matlala joins Business Day TV to discuss the company’s interim results

The mechanised mine will change its cost structure, allowing it to ride out the prevailing weakness in the platinum price