Mining and marketing giant Glencore on Thursday took the unprecedented step of announcing the signing of a major human rights commitment with a top human rights body, in a bid to keep its activities beyond reproach and squeaky clean.

Things appear to be impossibly difficult in the resource space at the moment, so imagine my surprise as I came across a Standard Bank research report on Merafe Resources – a small, single commodity, resource company – entitled, “Cash Machine in Waiting”.

AFRICA Chrome Fields, a subsidiary of Fanshawe Mining Holdings, last Friday demonstrated to President Mugabe the $200 million chrome smelting technology - the exothermic (alluninathemic) processing - that reduces time taken to refine chrome from the traditiona...

Diversified major Glencore was transitioning into deficit in most of the commodities it produced, CEO Ivan Glasenberg said on Tuesday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]HIGHER electricity tariffs are the most important element of the strategy to restore Eskom’s financial stability and the company is likely to make an early tariff application to the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for a new tariff st...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The Department Water and Sanitation has granted Bauba Platinum subsidiary, Bauba A Hlabirwa Mining Investments, a general authorisation of water use for the farm Moeijelijk, in Limpopo, fulfilling the last legislative condition required befor...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Interruptions in production, lower sales volumes, higher production costs and one-off items impacted negatively on International Ferro Metals’ (IFM’s) results for the six months ended December 31, resulting in a net loss of R175.6-million, ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]A COMBINATION of depressed commodity prices and spiralling costs conspired to lower net profit of mining company Assore by more than half.